I'm a little behind on my blogging, but have just now gotten time to catch up on what's been going on. This weekend I joined several other PLU Music Education students at the Music Educator's National Conference - Northwest Division Conference in Bellevue, WA. The PLU Men's Chorus and University Symphony Orchestra showcased some works at the conference as well. It was a wonderful weekend filled with networking, teaching, learning, and concerts.
One part that I found particularly interesting was the networking between college students. Educator's from other schools such as Central Washington University, Western Washington University, University of Wyoming, etc joined us in participating in sessions and concerts. It was great to see other students who I someday, may be teaching with. It was also a feeling of competition, and a reality of knowing that I will be competing for jobs against most of these people.
A lot of the sessions focused on teaching "music, not band/choir/etc." It was about teaching students to be musical being no matter what they were doing, rather than training them to be mindless drones who happen to know how to control and instrument. I took a lot of this into heart, and considered what kind of teacher I want to be in the future.
I look forward to conferences such as ACDA still to come, and can hardly wait to get my hands on more teaching materials!
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