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Author: rob v.
Date: 2008-01-17 14:13
Hopefully you guys can help me on this one. Im a clarinet instructor in South Texas, and Texas has and extremelly tough All-State process. Those that make the All-State auditions from my area have to play the music perfectly with absolutly no mistake. Im look for advice on how to teach the clarinet in general. (ie, tone, articulation, technique, musicianship, and even on how not to get nervous at an audition) Overall, I know my way of teaching all these, but just looking for more ideas that are out there. Im familiar with most Method books out there even Tom Ridenours educator guide to teaching clarinet.
Im trying to work on being a great teacher, hopefully it will work.
V.
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2008-01-17 20:43
Be gentle but tough! Commend them whenever it's honestly possible to commend, tell them when they should have done better, laugh lots together, then be tough some more, and commend them again if they tried their best. Combine that with flexibility and humanity, back away when it's obvious that either their nerves or their brain is fried.
Tell stories on yourself. (When I was learning the scales....)
Give homework and expect it to be done. Encourage initiative by asking them to surprise you. Then laugh together again! Humour and honest commendation go a long way towards getting the student to want to please you.
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Author: rob v.
Date: 2008-01-18 13:06
I commend my students left and right. I almost want to bring out a thesaurus to look for more positive words. One of my weaker students practices approximately 2hrs a day. And I believe that this students does practice that much, because she is so hard working. But she still has a bunched up chin, can’t adjust her severe overbite and can’t position the tongue properly. In this case, my question would be are their some people that can't play the clarinet?
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Author: William
Date: 2008-01-18 13:58
In teaching successfully, it's all about positive reinforcement and consistant guidence. My favorite phrase was always, "That was good, but perhaps you could try........" Constant criticizm without equal encouragement is the receipt for negative attitude and musical dropout. I have always thought that all college education majors should be required to train a dog to do a new trick because thats all about showing the expected behavior and rewarding it when it occurs--not criticizing the animal for not preforming properly or doing the wrong thing. And that is exactly what a teacher-student relationship model should be--demonstration or information of the expected behavior and a lot of "warm fuzzies" when the behavior is demonstrated.
One thing you might try is to record one of your teaching sessions--or, if possible, have someone observe--and tabulate the positive and negative comments you make during the course of the instruction. Nothing specific, just one check for each. Your goal should be to have more positive comments than negative--and it is usually surprizing for us to find out how how "negative" we actually are in our efforts to be good, effective teachers.
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Author: rob v.
Date: 2008-01-18 15:02
I have to admit, I wasn't taught to teach in college. I was taught performance, history, theory. Even in my Pedogue classes, we learned how to play the instrument not to teach it. I spent 20grand on a college degree, and im NOW learning how to teach...
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