Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2005-04-28 02:07
3dogmom,
After 16 years of HS band directing, I was really happy to move up to university teaching in another area but I would not trade the experienecs I had in music for anything. Being a strong and able director for all HS activities is a given and your enthusiasm for marching band is a good indication that you will thrive.
However, the life lessons you learn as a HS director include how to fund raise; learining to work closely with community and parents groups; surviving in a highly political environment; being a team player with the secretaries, bus drivers, custodians, and cooks; and educational planning as well as curriculum development. Unfortunately, may of these skills are learned by "tests of fire" but others have gone before you and lived so...
I would try to keep your hand in firmly in elementary band though as this is your feeder program. Tomorrow's HS band is only as good as today's recruiting.
HRL
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