My first day of teaching recorder was yesterday and an interesting experience. These children have only had a little bit of music experience that was not singing and so I need to teach them how to read music before we can really do anything. I really have no idea how to go about doing this so I started with rhythm and teaching them how to count and clap different beats. When I was planning what I was going to do I expected to get a lot further than I did get. All we did was basically memorize different rhythms and play them together, but this gave me a good idea how to proceed.
Today was the day for piano classes. Mrs. Waid told me what classes I should probably start with and then told me the kids could tell me who Kelsey (the previous sm) had started to teach. Well when I asked the kids, they told me all of third grade had taken lessons, but that is 14 children, I am definitely not up to teaching 14 children in one day. So today I took them all and gave them each a ten minute lesson and found the ones I thought were musically talented. This is a hard task, because I don’t want to say no to any of them, but I don’t think I can teach all of them, especially after experiencing today. Quite a few of the children did very good, so it will be hard to narrow it down. Some of the children did ok, but just didn’t seem very interested so those I don’t think I will teach.
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