In addition, I want to be able to use my experience and skills for effort into leading the band through competition season and achieving the goals that our band has set for each year. This position is definitely going to be a learning experience, just by trying-out, but receiving it will be a learning experience as a leader. I think the position will teach me how to gain confidence and learn to speak publicly about my thoughts in a positive way. Personality wise, I think it will teach me to be a better-rounded and speak to everybody in the band and get to know people better. I also think this position will teach me how to balance fun and work time to benefit the band.
My ambition and desire to advance my career lead me to take classes and studying my but off. As I was well liked by my fellow firefighters I was given help studying for my first promotional exam. With 4 years under my belt I thought I was ready to take over the department. 98 on my written exam I was in the top 10. With coaching from my mentors I knew all of the questions that were going to be ask by the oral interview board.
I contributed patience to the team because when I could not get a dance down I did not give up. I just kept trying over and over again. This showed the girls how to deal with tough situations. Also, the girls loved my personality because I helped them do whatever was needed to prepare us for games. I did not know much about the sport when I first joined the squad because it was my first year cheering, so; therefore I contributed to the team by being a new member with my own new and unique style.
Day in and day out, Danny Boy has been a great challenge for me. When I first signed up for the class, I figured chorus would be an easy credit. I can memorize a couple songs, blend in with the group. No big deal. Boy was I wrong.
Our generation would be far more respectful and disciplined with a greater presence of marching bands. It's not only the growth as a person I've attained through band, but equally the family I've met through it that makes me love this program more than any other. My friends from the band are the most genuine, hospitable, and selfless people I've ever met. I have friends who've graduated years ago that I still talk to frequently. Only in a marching band can I see this kind of bond form.
How would songs, poems, or art be developed into such extraordinary pieces of beauty? From the most basic of sounds, to the most complex music consisting of advanced harmonies and rhythms, improvisation is an extremely useful and rewarding skill for every musician of every level. With that said, I believe it is vital that teachers know the best ways to teach students improvisation. In this paper, I will discuss improvisation teaching techniques in middle school band. I will give an overview of methods that have been used throughout the past few decades, and I will report on how improvisation is currently being taught in three local Philadelphia suburban schools.
Good Assessment Task Educational Assessment Methods ED305 March 05, 2013 Good Assessment Task "Assessment (as I define it) is not something to be despised or ignored as irrelevant or impossible but embraced as an essential aspect of learning and the best way to truly understand and improve that learning.” —Bill Moore As I read the study and after watching the video I realized that assessment has a legitimate purpose. From my own experience in the Army we use assessment in learning on a daily basis. When I was in any military school we were assessed on what we learned and also how we comprehended it. Sometimes our instructors would get so competitive with the other instructors on having a class with the highest grade that they began teaching to pass the test and not really teaching to standard of actually learning and understanding what was taught.
I have been working as a professional musician for the past eight years (holding a doctoral performance degree for the past seven), and although I have found my experiences as an orchestral musician and adjunct college professor personally fulfilling, I have felt an increased desire to help other people in more meaningful ways and also to better provide for my family. One night as I was thinking deeply about this situation and researching various career options (related and unrelated to music), I discovered occupational therapy. At first I was intrigued. Then, witnessing the important role in the lives of individuals benefiting from OT, I found myself enveloped by an incredible feeling that this is indeed what I was meant to do. After speaking with a variety of therapists (occupational, speech, and respiratory), I have concluded that OT profession will be a wonderful career path to pursue.
Preschool Music Lesson This class was a little off the beaten path for me, in the sense that I know nothing about early childhood education, but I learned a lot from it. It seemed tedious having to sit through this, but I now understand that even though I can’t teach young kids, I need to understand where musical careers begin…and that’s when you are young. I feel like I always hear about how important it is to educate kids on music while they are still young, and this class helped me understand why. It’s vital for kids to be exposed to music at a young age because this is when their minds are forming and when they will get the tools to flourish musically in the future. I noticed that several of the kids seemed to be rebels.
The learning process has four stages of creativity: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination and Verification. In the first example after a lot of preparation, in the stage of incubation the student is left with one option that is music. He/she chooses that option because music helps them to learn more efficiently even after continuous hours of study. Music gives the learner an ambience to study. Similar is the case with a small kid, when he does not know