The Usage of Music Video Lesson for Music Teaching : A Case Study on the Lack of Teachers for the Schools

Abstract

           Music is useful as it helps stimulate cognitive development and mindfulness practice among children, which gains much popularity nowadays. Children in rural areas are unable to access music sufficiently. Some schools do not have teachers, instructional media, and budget problems. This research created video lessons for schools deprived of teachers by using an inexpensive musical instrument like a melodeon. The research was conducted based on an experimental research design that aimed to (1) to develop video lessons supplementing music teaching to achieve the efficiency criteria of 80/80, and (2) to compare pretest and post-test scores of learning achievement of students learning with video lessons, (3) to study the satisfaction of students learning with video lessons. The population in the study was students from Wat Pa Khwang School (Thammarak Rasadon Suksa) and Chumchon Ban Sathon School (Wan Khru 2503) (Ban Sathon Community School). A simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample from Prathomsuksa 4-6 students, semester 2 of the 2021 academic year. The research instrument was (1) a structured interview to inquire about content experts, (2) a video lesson on how to play the melodeon for beginners in schools deprived of teachers, (3) a learning management plan and a supplemental lesson manual on how to play the melodeon for beginners, (4) learning achievement test (theory-practice), (5) a questionnaire about students’ satisfaction.
          The Result from the study revealed that the video lesson on how to play the melodeon for beginners achieved an efficiency of 80.58/87.45, higher than the 80/80 criteria, and (2) the post-test learning achievement was higher than the pretest learning achievement with the statistical significance level of 0.05, (3) students’ satisfaction survey results found that the mean satisfaction score was 4.52, the standard deviation was 0.56, satisfaction level was at the highest. Video lessons are useful for solving a teacher shortage problem, and reducing educational inequality, and students can repeat the lessons at any time which is very beneficial to students. As for music subjects at the Prathomsuksa level in school, the use of video lessons only can enable students to practice a musical instrument at the beginning. In the case of an advanced level of music study, a teacher is needed to give advice on how to practice the instrument in person, which will truly help students reach music learning achievement.