Real Resolution
January 9th, 2010
“ThirdStream2009″ image courtesy of www.wordle.net by Jonathan Feinberg.
What’s at the center of your professional world? Hopefully students are, with either “band”, “choir” or “orchestra” playing a large but not central role. We don’t teach music, after all….we teach students. Better yet, we teach future professionals and happy, self actualizing adults. An easy but important resolution for the new year: Make that state sweepstakes trophy the method, not the objective. Makes smiles, interpersonal growth and student ownership the goals.
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1. Piano Teacher | February 15th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I completely agree with you: Music teachers do not teach music; we teach students. Yes, we are dealing with people - young minds. And since it is difficult to unlearn these young people, we need to work at our best and teach from the heart. We have to go beyond traditional music teaching, we need to make our music teaching resources more creative and innovative. In this way, our students would surely enjoy each music class and love music as much as we do. You may want to visit this music teacher’s website. Check it out and see how you can take your music teaching experience to the next level.