Klarinet Archive - Posting 000806.txt from 2001/11

From: "Angelina Ballerina" <theroyalbrat@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] High School Band and Practicing
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:40:49 -0500

Assign a playing test every lesson and grade them on their performance at
the next lesson.

>From: Mike Dowler <syo@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] High School Band and Practicing
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:43:33 -0500
>
>I have a question to put out to the high school band directors on the
>list. I teach a group of 12 clarinet students every week for half an
>hour each at a local private high school. After about a month
>teaching them I realised that they didn't bring their instruments
>home to practice. Is this normal for a band director to not encourage
>or make home practice mandatory? I have given them all a weekly
>practice grid to fill out, but it is hard for me to explain this new
>requirement to them when they are accustomed to arriving at band
>class without any preparation and still given good grades in the
>course. Assuming your schools require home practice, how do you grade
>this and how do your students report their practice to you? Should I
>suggest that the band director implement mandatory home practice for
>all of the students?
>
>Mike
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