Klarinet Archive - Posting 000282.txt from 1998/04

From: I AM THE PUFFER GOOSE HAHAHAHA <talbotse12@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: lesson motivation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 01:27:57 -0400

As a senior music education major I can't tell why the music ed.
folks in the studio would not be motivated to improve. Maybe if they
start looking at it in the perspective that THEY will someday soon be
on the other side of it and have to teach lessons. Also there is the
issue that if they are to become future band directors, they have to
be grounded in technique and expression if they are going to be able
to help a band be expressive. It seems that it is in the students best
interest and essential to their futur careers as teachers to be
somewhat self motivated. Maybe if this perspective is brought to
their attention.....maybe thier ideas would change. What do you
think about working with self grading and figure out what the students
goals are.....or do they have goals??? In our music assessment class
we often talk about the problems with the A,B,C, D, F grade system and
realize that to give useful feedback or a goal for the student...such
system doesn't work well.
So does anyone else on here use a different assessment stratagy?
I'm very curious about this.

Sean Talbot
UW-Whitewater
talbotse12@-----.edu