Taste o' Life

History Paper is done. Woot!

I feel like I'm going to be teaching a lot this Thursday and Friday. I've got to teach my marching band techniques class. I have to teach forward and backward march in 3 minutes flat. It has to look clean too...luckily, everyone in the class has been in marching band before.

Later on Thursday I'm going to a local middle school and am going to work with their 6th grade beginning band on Little Brazil Suite...I should probably be getting ready for that now...but I"m not. It should be good. It'll be my first experience teaching a middle school band.

I wen to observe the band last week. They were pretty good considering that they have only been playing their instruments for 7 months. What I found really impressive was their listening ability. They were able to assess themselves as an ensemble.

Then on Friday, I'm going to go to the middle school again to work with the same band. I then have my music club at the other middle/high school.

Sometimes they can just be awesome. Sometimes they can be not.

I think we're going to learn about instrument families this week. I'm going to bring in an instrument from each family and demonstrate and have them try it if they want. We'll see how that goes.

It feels like a lot...but that's what I'm going to be doing. It feels like a lot but the teaching part doesn't seem to be something that I really worry about. It's the other school stuff. I guess that's to teach me about the administrivia part of being a teacher.