Klarinet Archive - Posting 001194.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: what I have to teach
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:32:50 -0500

you ignored the second part of the post....go over the administrator's
head.....I did it when I had to.....at both the Middle School level and,
most recently, at the college level. It is never easy, but it is
sometimes necessary. If it is clearly a problem, it will be seen as such
by others in a position to help.

Roger Garrett

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 03:52 PM 10/26/97 -0600, Roger Garrett wrote:
> >
> >Um.....I am in the real world .....honest......and I have taught in the
> >real world for quite some time.
> >
> >Administrators make mistakes.....so do music teachers. Frequently, I have
> >found that behavioral problems occur in the band room when:
> >
> >1. the teaching pace is too slow
> >2. the music is too hard
> >3. too much talking from teacher, too little non-verbal teaching
> >4. students are not kept on task enough
> >5. students are not individually challenged by the teacher
> >
> >If a student continues to be a behavioral problem, he or she may be
> >removed from an elective class at the end of the quarter. This is much
> >more prevelant in schools than the administration denying the teacher this
> >right.
>
> In the particular case I am referring to, the students were not only
> disruptive but DESTRUCTIVE, and the administration STILL would not allow
> them to be transferred out (probably because nobody ELSE wanted them
> either!). No band director, or any other teacher, should have to put up
> with this. It is too harmful to the rest of the class. With this kind of
> thing going on, pacing, keeping on task, etc., goes to hell in a handcart.
> The troublemakers aren't paying the slightest bit of attention anyway.
> Their main focus is on how to get the teacher's goat. When there is no
> discipline in a classroom, it is the teacher's fault. But when there is no
> discipline at the institutional level, the chaos that ensues is well beyond
> any teacher's control. It was breaking his heart as well as his spirit.
> Incidentally, my own 8th-grade son does not attend school in the system my
> wife teaches 6th grade in for just this reason: no institutional
> discipline in the junior high.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
> 451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
> Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>

   
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