#fmec

My Best Year Yet (fingers crossed)!

I have been excited about this year for a while now for a number of reasons.  First of all, this is the first time in my entire teaching career that I will be at a school for four years.  In the past, we have had to move within the first three years.  The second reason is that all of the students at my school have been with me since their freshman year.  This makes a HUGE difference and I am…

Have you ever noticed this trend in some music teachers where they are proud that they don’t do any recruiting?  What is that?  It seems a strange and unknown program that needs no recruiting at all.  But then, I think… Perhaps they don’t really understand recruiting.  Recruiting happens in all shapes, sizes, colors, times of the year, and in ways that people don’t even think about it.  Perhaps…

A Lack of Experience in a Teacher = A Lack of Proper Education for the Student…

The survey results have already started coming in & I am really thrilled with the results!  My Future Music Educators seem to have benefited greatly from this camp.  The most valuable lessons, according to the surveys, seem to be on classroom management.  This is so interesting because it is the one thing that most colleges completely ignore.  I have been trying to understand why most college…

Wow!  Today was an amazing day!  We had 5 students in our FMEC camp and they were wonderful.  I was really impressed from the beginning with their willingness to jump in, to make a genuine effort, and to work toward improvement. On the first day, we worked with recorders and first I taught a brief lesson on recorders using some rhythms on boxes and some movement.  Each student then had to reteach…