Teaching+Artifacts+and+Reflections

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 * My Thoughts on Teaching**

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Over the short years of life and schooling I have earned a few powerful teaching tools. I have gained the ability to command attention in a classroom. Students will listen to be because I have de a strong understanding of the material I am teaching and they wish to learn alongside me. I have learned the skills necessary to lead a band in not only their musical skills, but as to their life skills and the logistics of running a program. My life and schooling has prepared me well to lead a group of students to a higher level of musical experiance.=====

**My Career Goals**
Attend the University of North Texas for a degree in EC-12 Education, specializing in music.

In the next 5-10 years, I hope to have graduated from UNT with my degree and have a job at a north texas middle school as one of the band directors.

In the next 20 years, I hope to have moved on from my middle school job and be teaching at a local high school.

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All too often in the classroom does the focus of both the students and the teacher shift from learning to results such as state test grades, contest scores, and win/loss record. I am not one to say that these things have no merit. In my classroom I feel it is my duty not to force the skills upon my students that will give them the best result. Every student's education is a blank page in a massive coloring book that only they can color. When a teacher can provide some basic lines for them to be guided by, they are given the opportunity to color that page and learn more in the process than I could ever put on a chalk board.=====

**My Classroom Rules**
1. All adults and students will be looked in the eyes and given full attention when they are addressing the class. 2. All students and adults will be prepared on the downbeat of all practices. 3. All students and adults will be responsible for their parts. 4. All students and adults will conduct themselves with appropriate maners and behavior at all times as the situation warrants.

**My Discipline Plan**
1. Warning 2. Detention 3. Parent Confrence 4. Referal

**My Student Teaching Experiances**
School: Binion Elementary Teacher: Wendy Jenkins Over at Binion I was given the privilege of teaching the 5th grade music students for a semester. These students helped me develop control and confidence in a classroom. They also taught me many student-teacher interaction skills as I was often working with them on things they very much so enjoyed doing. At this site, I was able to enjoy teaching students that had fun with the material.

School: Smithfield Middle School Teacher: Ramsey McDonald During my time at this field site, I was given the extraordinary opportunity of being in an exceptional program. I was able to observe and work with the schools top band. They put me in a real world environment, which greatly increased my aural skills. Pulling out students to work on their parts was also a benefit to me for I was able to improve the quality of students work. In addition to this experience, I was able to teach beginner band students how to play and give them a fundamental place in music so they may have fruitful musical experiences.

(Froesty Lesson Plan) Evaluations for Lesson #1 (Evaluation by intern site teacher-Side One)-Wendy Jenkins (Evaluation by intern site teacher-Side Two)-Wendy Jenkis (Evaluation by mentor teacher)-Karen Kallas

Picture of Lesson #1

[[file:DQN LP.pdf]] (Dotted Quarter Note Lesson Plan)
Evaluations for Lesson #2 (Evaluation by intern site teacher)-Ramsey Mcdonald (Evaluation by mentor teacher)-Karen Kallas Picture of Lesson #2