This was a crazy week. It was the first week of my new placement in a general music classroom in Channahon Illinois. I haven't been to a general music class since I was doing my observations at Monmouth College. My new placement is kindergarten through 4th grade. After 4 weeks I am going to be student teaching at the jr. high with their band director. I am very excited to see so much of this district and be able to experience many different music classes.
I think I would have enjoyed the first week of my new placement if this was not the last week to work on EdTPA. I will admit that I was so stressed out that I could not enjoy my first week with my new placement. I can't wait to enjoy my second week with the grade schoolars without all the work I need to do on my EdTPA looming over me.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
Week 9
My last week at Manhattan Jr. High school went by way too quickly. I do not want to leave my students. It is so crazy to me that I became so attached to students that I knew I was going to be leaving in 9 weeks. I am so invested in what they are going to learn and how they were practicing and they started to see me as a real teacher and told me about their days and their lives at home.
Leaving on Friday was so hard, but I can not wait to meet my new class and try my hand at general music. I have an instrumental and a vocal background and studied both at Monmouth College so general music, with the singing programs, is going to be very fun and different, considering I am coming from 9 weeks of the band. I really enjoy elementary school students, because in music classes they are still so excited and want to be there. Basically, any new idea that you teach them they want to learn and it is new and something different from their traditional classes.
My cooperating teacher for my next placement has not had a student teacher in 18 years, not since she was a 1st-grade teacher. It will be interesting to see how she handles handing over her classroom to me. My last cooperating teacher and I had a good relationship and worked well together and I learned a lot. I can only hope that this cooperating teacher and I can have the same type of working relationship.
Leaving on Friday was so hard, but I can not wait to meet my new class and try my hand at general music. I have an instrumental and a vocal background and studied both at Monmouth College so general music, with the singing programs, is going to be very fun and different, considering I am coming from 9 weeks of the band. I really enjoy elementary school students, because in music classes they are still so excited and want to be there. Basically, any new idea that you teach them they want to learn and it is new and something different from their traditional classes.
My cooperating teacher for my next placement has not had a student teacher in 18 years, not since she was a 1st-grade teacher. It will be interesting to see how she handles handing over her classroom to me. My last cooperating teacher and I had a good relationship and worked well together and I learned a lot. I can only hope that this cooperating teacher and I can have the same type of working relationship.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Week 8
This week was interesting week for me. It is really starting to hit me that I have to leave my students and go to a new placement soon. I am really going to miss the group of students that I have now. They are a great bunch of kids who are very excited about music.
I had my third observation this week and I actually had real sheet music to work with the band on, not just exercises out of their method book. I have been working with the symphonic band on a piece of music for Veterans Day, but I haven't had a chance to work with the concert band on music, we have just been working out of the book. The band started Christmas music, it seems a bit early but it really isn't a lot of time between now and Christmas to get the music ready, not with the random days off and breaks, and only meeting 4 times a week. It really stinks that I am helping the students with this concert music that I don't get to experience because of my placement change. I think that I am missing out on a major part of being a music teacher by missing the concert. Especially because I want to teach band.
I am going into my last week of student teaching at Manhattan Junior High, I can't believe how fast 8 weeks went by.
I had my third observation this week and I actually had real sheet music to work with the band on, not just exercises out of their method book. I have been working with the symphonic band on a piece of music for Veterans Day, but I haven't had a chance to work with the concert band on music, we have just been working out of the book. The band started Christmas music, it seems a bit early but it really isn't a lot of time between now and Christmas to get the music ready, not with the random days off and breaks, and only meeting 4 times a week. It really stinks that I am helping the students with this concert music that I don't get to experience because of my placement change. I think that I am missing out on a major part of being a music teacher by missing the concert. Especially because I want to teach band.
I am going into my last week of student teaching at Manhattan Junior High, I can't believe how fast 8 weeks went by.
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