| I started teaching private lessons to 5th grade students just starting out in band two summers ago. My first summer I only had two students, this summer I have five. I meet with each of them idividualy once a week, and once a month I run a group lesson to get them used to playing within a section and playing along with each other. This summer I also started teaching one student piano lessons, and with that I've expanded my group lesson into a very basic theory course as well, getting them introduced to more complex aspects of music that they wont really learn right away in an elementry school band class. Things like more difficult rythms, time signatures, and even some music history. They seem to like it.
I'm entering my first year Northern Arizona University majoring in Music Ed, I'm going to take it fairly easy my first year getting used to college and everything, but hopefully next year I can get on staff at one of the Flagstaff Highschools for their marching season.
Now... If I'm going to be a teacher, I should probably work on my spelling, I'm sure there's quite a few spelling errors in there.
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-David Jacques |