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 Re: elementary or high school teaching?
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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