I am the opposite with my teaching philosophy: Music First. They may not carry the clarinet with them after high school, and that's why they need as much exposure to good music and performance as they can possibly get during their time with me. Making good music requires the purposeful alignment of nature in accordance with a mutually-agreed-upon goal. It's why good music strikes awe in our hearts, and that goal is the best that music can offer.
The thing you said about yelling is something I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree with! As an experienced teacher and upcoming Assistant Band Director, I can tell you that I do that exact thing you talked about. I am not a yelling person and I only yell if I have to. It really makes your students respect you
You are so right about the special ed classes being online. They were so easy, and I had to make an effort to learn about them, and utube videos taught me more about the IEP's and the accommodations than any of the online lectures. I am in my senior year for music education, and I student teach in the fall. I have so many doubts that I have chosen the wrong field. This video was very heartfelt and insightful and gave me a bigger view that I'm not the only one feeling overwhelmed lol.
@@Rocdar12 I go to school at Northwood, we competed against you guys at middle creek and Cary, Me & the other drum majors at our school are friends with PCHS's Drum majors
For some weird reason I want to become a band director when I'm older, this is my 3rd year in band I play the clarinet 🎶 I have a amazing band director! If he would to retire I love to take his spot:)❤
My music teacher is why I want to be one, he's awesome. He's one of the strictest teachers I've had, but he's also one of the most fun. He has a quote on the band room wall which describes how he teaches perfectly (and how I want to teach) "what you tolerate you endorse, what you celebrate you reinforce."
Strict -> less strict is a great rule for any teacher. If you are a naturally laid back person, some people will take that to mean you aren’t serious. It’s much harder to shift from cool guy to disciplinarian midstream than to simply establish authority at the beginning.
Here's is something I've observed working as a substitute teacher who can conduct band from grades 6 -12: You wield a great power to be able to spot a problem in how a band is playing a passage... stop them... fix it... start again ... hear instant demonstrable improvement, and do it again and again and again. In no other classroom - not even phys ed - can a teacher make such a dramatic immediate change on such a grand scale: the whole band plays it better on the next run. A math/english/geography teacher teaches a lesson and must wait until the exams are graded to see the result of their work. They might get a one-on-one gratification seeing one pupil "get it". But that's rare. And small. But a band director conducts the entire room at once. And that gives a weird feeling of power that I've seen go to a director's head. They sometimes feel like a god because 50 people follow their baton on every beat (one hopes). Be careful with that power. Maybe you should teach history for one week each year just to be reminded how delayed gratification feels. It sucks.
This was the best and most informative video ever. I’m in college about to start student teaching, and watching this video excited me, terrified me, and relieved me all at the same time. We spent two whole lectures in my teaching instrumental music class having Q&As about “things you want to know going into your first year of teaching” and I learned more in this 30 min video than I did in that whole class honestly. This video was inspirational and genuine. You are a role model and THANK YOU for taking the time to make this video. I’m going to refer back to this video throughout student teaching and my first years. Thank you thank you THANK YOU!🙏
thank you so much for making this video (ive been wanting to be a band director since around junior year). this has been so helpful, and im thankful i will finally get the chance to start studying to be a band educator this fall!
I kinda hate the idea of treating blow-ups like a tool. I don't get angry often, and I have no teaching experience, but I feel like maintaining emotional control is best. If you are emotionally controlled when you're blowing up, then isn't it kind of a fake blow-up? I would also disagree with that approach because it isn't genuine. My form of a blow-up is probably going to be earnest communication of my disappointment and concern. Maybe more sad than angry.
there is never ever a reason to yell or raise voice at student musicians. never ever. if your voice isnt loud enough then get a microphone and amplifier to be heard clearly, widely available and inexpensive. if students are not attentive or not productive then they should be told to leave the room. no reason ever to ever yell. never ever. got it? there is also never a reason to tell a student "i'm disappointed in you". you're not a parent and dropping that is called a micro-aggression. too many bad or abusive music instructors in the world already, don't make more.
Yelling or telling a student you’re disappointed in them in the right context is not at all abusive or harmful. Obviously there is a point where yelling can become degrading and harmful, but this guy in the video knows what he’s talking about when he refers to the “once in a blue moon blowup”. It’s something that will happen with me naturally; maybe only a few times in a year or season. For context, I work with country kids in Louisiana. Especially with them, they will at times just need extra motivation when they aren’t living up to expectations. Sometimes, as a group their morale is low, they aren’t thinking like they should be, and/or they are just giving in when the going gets tough. If it gets the that and it’s called for, they are going to get barked at and kick their asses into gear. It happens every time: all of a sudden, magically after getting yelled at, they have a significantly better run. Because they were pushed to overcome their mental barriers. I’ve had several students come up to me on different occasions thanking me for yelling in a certain situation or being hard on them. So many of them need that. Of course all of them aren’t the same and don’t get motivation the same way but to say “there is never ever a reason to yell” is frankly an arrogant statement to tell a marching band director. Furthermore, to tell a kid you are disappointed in them is something you say when you are genuinely disappointed in them. And that’s an important feeling to convey. It doesn’t mean you’re shitting on them; you just clearly communicate that “You’re not living up to your potential, I’ve seen you do better, I know you can do better, so don’t disappoint not only me, but more importantly YOURSELF”. Both of these things are crucial to build character not just in a band program but for any teen/young adult.
@@akmedman8078 you are VERY WRONG and ignorant of evidence in psychology. there is never any reason to yell at a student except being a bully or being BAD at instruction and both those excuses should mean that an instructor should be FIRED from their job. student musicians who 'thank' an instructor for yelling at them are very mistaken just like they are with many things in life, as young musicians are incredibly naive, the result is they are repeating the cycle of abuse.
