Mrs.Borchers

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In class, we had to do an RSS feed to a teacher blog. Seeing as though I want to be a band director, I decided to choose two blogs that are posted for tips in conducting/teaching band.

One of the tips they advice is in order to teach music, you have to act like a business person. In other words, you have to teach what you're selling. If a student isn't catching on that you love music, they're not going to have the want to love music themselves.

It also goes into band directors having a process of finding people to help their students. The blog states that it's important to get people you trust to help your students, otherwise they could fall down instead of building up.

The other blog talks about percussion, which I'm not really into but it could be interesting.

Teacher Blogs I'm following

Concert Band blog:
http://percussioneducationonline.com/2009/07/new-textbook-with-help-for-concert-band-directors/

Music Teachers Blog:
http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/

What I learned this week...

This week, we learned about the multiple intelligences a person might have. Out of the seven possible intelligences, my top three were Musical, Intra-personal and Linguistic. Although I see myself as musical, I didn't expect the intra-personal or linguistic. It came as a shock too that I wasn't inter-personal, even though most of them time, my life is consumed by my friends. I'm not arguing with my results, I'm just kind of baffled by the fact that I didn't know myself as well as I thought I did.

Also, I'm learning how to cope with different teaching methods. Some of my teachers like doing lectures for 50 minutes, and it bores me completely, but I've been trying my best to just deal with it and still learn. It's something I struggle with, but hopefully it's an obstacle I can overcome.

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From Negative to Positive

Music has been a passion for most of my life, So I joined band as of sixth grade. Things were and up and down battle when it came to the connection with the teacher. Respect was a one way street most of the time and boredom filled the air of the classroom.

Currently, a new band director has stepped in for a short while and has already turned the whole band program inside out. Mr.Mulvaney has been trying his hardest to connect with the students and make the 50 minutes of band class every day worthwhile. Though he is only he temporarily, he has definitely made a large effect that most of us will carry through for the rest of the year.

Many of the students now look forward to going to band class, rather than dreading that part of the day. It was definitely a flip from Negative to Positive. :)