Klarinet Archive - Posting 000696.txt from 1999/12

From: "mark weinstein" <cpaok@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] recomedation of Reeds
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 19:58:15 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: David B. Niethamer <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] recomedation of Reeds

> >>From: SoulClarinetAdam@-----.com
> >>
> >>Well, I really want to be a teacher of the clarinet, as well as play,
but i
> >>really want to teach to college students. I don't know why...perhaps
it's
> >>because i have a low patients level.
>
> on 12/19/99 1:30 PM, James Leonard Hobby wrote:
>
> >If you know you don't have the patience for elementary and secondary
school
> >teaching, then aim for what you want to do, from the git-go, because if
you
> >fall back on PS teaching as a stop-gap measure, you could very well burn
> >out before you are able to further your education and get that college
> >appointment.
> >
> I now have an OK job as a player, and do some teaching of university
> students, things that I aspired to do when I was in college. But one of
> the most useful things I ever did for both my playing and teaching was to
> teach beginning woodwinds in a public school system.
>
> To achieve any degree of success at all, I had to formulate in my mind a
> series of steps by which these beginning students could master the skills
> needed to learn to play their instrument. This included (in the US model
> for school instrumental instruction) both musical skills and instrumental
> skills, in some mix that continued to engage the interest of the students
> as much as possible. And those individual tasks had to be simple - 9/10
> year olds don't conceptualize very well. You need to say "practice this."
>
> I certainly don't mean to imply that I formulated all this in a vacuum,
> made from whole cloth. There are lots of excellent materials out there,
> and I used many of them to be sure. But what I had to do was clarify in
> my own mind how to present this in the simplest and clearest possible
> way. That helped me as both a teacher and a player, since I had to think
> about how I did things, whether it was efficient and/or productive, and
> in the case of complex tasks, what steps it took to get there. After all
> that, you still have to hope the kids will actually practice! ;-)
>
> I always wanted to be a clarinet player, for as long as I can remember. I
> never thought I'd teach elementary instrumental music. But I greatly
> enjoyed the kids. What spurred me on to pursue my ambitions as a player
> were the kids' parents, and school administrators!
>
> BTW, if you think it takes less patience to teach older students... ;-)
>
> Good luck!
>
> David
>
> David Niethamer
> Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
> dnietham@-----.edu
> http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
>
>
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