Klarinet Archive - Posting 000691.txt from 1997/09

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Personal Philosophy of teaching
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:40:06 -0400

At 08:19 PM 9/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hello everyone. My name is Anets and I am a returning member to the list.
>I have missed about three months of discussion so far. I'd like to take
>the opportunity to pose a quwstion of my own . I am a recent graduate in
>Music and am now pursuing a Bachelor of Education Degree ( Teachers Colage)
>My first assignment of the year has me involved in some deep inner
>thought, which is somewhat difficult for me.
>
> It asks me to state my philosophy of teaching music. Well this may
>sund easy but for some reason I am having difficulty in getting started.
>
>Would anyone like to offer some of their own thoughts on how music should
>be taught in school, or even at all for that matter. How do you teach
>music? What do you teach about music? How do you relate to your students?
>How would you like to relate to your students?
>
Far from being an easy question, this is one of the most difficult ones to
answer and your answer may still be evolving when you reach your
retirement. I think, though, that the one "question word" you've left out
of your list is the most important one and the real starting point from
which to reach answers to the others: you left out "why." "What" and "how"
only get answered with any conviction when "why" has been answered first.

Good luck.

Karl