1. Roles and Goals - Review -Goals and philosophy are important because they will shape your program. They are the foundation of what and how you will teach and run your program. -Write them down: -What do you want the kids to experience in your class? -Next how are you going to achieve them? -Beginning class experience is everything. It will affect who stays and who goes. Foundation work is extremely important. -Your responsibility is to plan, teach and model! Goals and objectives are important for you and your students. They give you an easy standard of reference of achievement Start with big goals – big picture. Some may be brief, some long. Some general, some precise and detailed

2. Five Principles of beginning instrumental music instruction: Principle I Underlying all instruction, in music as well as in other subjects, is the principle that learning is often most effective when experience precedes theory. Result You should do a lot of demonstrating and teaching by sound, not sight – without notation.

3. Five Principles of beginning instrumental music instruction: Principle II Not all students have had the same experiences, nor have they all been equally successful in understanding their experiences. Therefore, the teacher must organize instruction in such a way as to proceed from the known to the unknown…. Result You should plan instruction so that students can find success in their playing before continuing sequentially to more difficult skills. -Students learn at varying rates and have different levels of musical experience,. You should meet the individual needs of students by supplying missing information or providing additional opportunities for musical enrichment

4. Five Principles of beginning instrumental music instruction: Principle III The learning process proceeds most effectively when it is organized in such a way that the specific is related to the general and the general to the specific – in other words, from the whole to the parts and back again…. Result Teach with the “Big Picture” in mind. For a beginner this could simply be playing a single half-note well while reviewing all those small actions needed to sound that note; or playing through a whole etude, song or band arrangement.

5. Five Principles of beginning instrumental music instruction: Principle IV Throughout the educational process, the teacher must realize that the important activity in the classroom is not teaching but learning, and that learning depends upon the desire to learn…. Result Real learning takes place only when the learner has a desire to learn, plan instruction that will make students interested and active learners. Chose attractive and interesting literature, offer appropriate positive reinforcement, maintain an appropriate pace to the class lessons, and be sure to demonstate your own enjoyment, personal satisfaction, and pleasure in teaching (especially in teaching the beginner).

6. Five Principles of beginning instrumental music instruction: Principle V If learning depends on wanting to learn, then teaching is the art of making students want to learn…. Result This is a succinct and useful definition of teaching: ….teaching is the art of making students want to learn”

7. Five Principles of beginning instrumental music instruction: Principle V A few things that beginning instrumental teaching is not: -Conducting -Lecturing -Judging A few things that beginning instrumental teaching is : -MOTIVATING -Explaining -Demonstrating -Encouraging -Suggesting -Organizing -Evaluating

8. Instructional Groups How to organize classes: -private lessons? -group lessons? -like-instruments? -woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings? -grade? -Do whatever you can to get each student a lesson a week. -Ideal time to start ww, brass and perc is in the 5 th grade

9. Lesson Rubric MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday Sr. Band 2AFKJr. JazzQ 3BGLMakeupR Jr. Band 5CHMMakeupS 6DINSr. JazzT 7EJOPopen

10. Instructional Groups -Ideal time to start ww, brass and perc is in the 5 th grade. -physically capable -not involved in a lot of “after school” things -eager to begin new experiences -pullout lessons easier to start -Strings may be started before this -physically capable before 5 th grade for strings -helps jump start recruiting

11. Instrumentation - Core of band instruments only? -Flute -Clarinet -Trumpet -Trombone -Alto Sax -Percussion -Violin -Viola -Cello - No color instruments, oboe, bassoon, french horn, baritone, tuba etc., etc. -Instrument transfers after the first year of instruction. -Before 8 th or 9 th grad, definitely.

12. Instrumentation Transfers: -Oboe and bassoon: from saxophone, flute, or clarinet -Bass Clarinet: from clarinet -Tenor and Bari Sax: from alto, clarinet or flute -French Horn: from cornet, trumpet or flute -Euphonium and Tuba: from cornet or trumpet or flute -Viola, cello, or string bass: from violin