Another week has passed and boy was it a long. We had a booster meeting on Monday and open house on Wednesday. Crazy.
Classes are going really well. Got all the routines finally set in my big orchestra classes. This has made everything run much smoother. We have already begun to work on music and I am very satisfied with where we are starting off the year.
The weekly workouts have been working out well. I'm getting faster at writing them and the students are making improvements very quickly within them.
Piano classes are going well as well. I am focusing on trying to give each student individualized feedback and attention. We had our first round of assessments this week. These were intended to be formative in nature and gave me a good opportunity to see exactly where they are. I am also very happy to see how far they've progressed already. My only concern is addressing the new students who have been transferring in late. I think next year I might tweak my lessons to start after the first couple of days to avoid this. As an alternative I'm thinking of focusing on listening activities and such with the students in the beginning so that if anyone else comes in late they won't miss anything essential for later.
I've begun doing more detailed planing for marching band, similar to the planing I do for my daily classes. I think it's really paying off and making our practices much more efficient. Time will tell though if it really makes that much of an improvement.
Things to work on for the future:
- Implementing snap grades into my routine
- Finish arranging 3rd movement and drum break for MB
- Work CO/CS officers into the fold more
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