Klarinet Archive - Posting 000695.txt from 1997/09

From: Charles <chardy@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Personal Philosophy of teaching
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 17:35:52 -0400

At 04:40 PM 9/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
My philosophy for teaching music is relatively sim[le: Whatever your teaching, teach so that the kids WANT more. Wether it be just knowlege or more proficiency on their instrument. Charlie