TEACHINZZZ
First concert this coming Thursday... I AM SO NERVOUS. It's going to be the first concert I'll conduct, ee~! I just have the bands, and my cooperating teacher has the choirs, but next quarter I'll be doin' ERRATHANG. I still am unsure how to teach choir, but all I know is this:
There is nothing more AMAZING than hearing a choir of these middle school kids go from "This is stupid, singing is for dorks and I hate this" to, just one week before the concert, kicking the snot out their songs and looking/sounding like they love their voices and singing together. I almost cried (in front of the students!) on Thursday when the 7th period choir sang their gospel tune with big, bright smiles on their faces and stepping side to side and clapping and just singing their hearts out. It was so damn touching and downright... just, OH MY GOD. Teaching music is the best fucking profession in THE WORLD. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about those kids and how they were really enjoying themselves! I want to bring that out in kids... I want kids to be able to escape their own reality and enjoy their beautiful (and some less beautiful, hehe) voices and live happily in music, even for just an hour and a half. I can't wait `til after the first concert and they get a taste of success and really buy into choir and what choir can do for them.
I get really stressed out when I think about all the bullshit outside of teaching that I will have to do as a music teacher: organize fundraisers, book keeping, phone calls, emails, dealing with unsupportive administrators (hopefully I won't have that problem...), on-the-fly instrument repairs, blah... 10% (or less) of what I do as a music teacher will be teaching music, but hot damn, moments like a couple days ago make it ALL WORTH IT.
Middle school kids are the best kids on the planet. I can't see myself doing anything else BUT teach middle school music- band, choir, whatever. (Though, I do hope for band even though I've been all watery over choir... my band kids work so hard... :3)
EEEEE I wish you could feel my happiness right now. T^T
There is nothing more AMAZING than hearing a choir of these middle school kids go from "This is stupid, singing is for dorks and I hate this" to, just one week before the concert, kicking the snot out their songs and looking/sounding like they love their voices and singing together. I almost cried (in front of the students!) on Thursday when the 7th period choir sang their gospel tune with big, bright smiles on their faces and stepping side to side and clapping and just singing their hearts out. It was so damn touching and downright... just, OH MY GOD. Teaching music is the best fucking profession in THE WORLD. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about those kids and how they were really enjoying themselves! I want to bring that out in kids... I want kids to be able to escape their own reality and enjoy their beautiful (and some less beautiful, hehe) voices and live happily in music, even for just an hour and a half. I can't wait `til after the first concert and they get a taste of success and really buy into choir and what choir can do for them.
I get really stressed out when I think about all the bullshit outside of teaching that I will have to do as a music teacher: organize fundraisers, book keeping, phone calls, emails, dealing with unsupportive administrators (hopefully I won't have that problem...), on-the-fly instrument repairs, blah... 10% (or less) of what I do as a music teacher will be teaching music, but hot damn, moments like a couple days ago make it ALL WORTH IT.
Middle school kids are the best kids on the planet. I can't see myself doing anything else BUT teach middle school music- band, choir, whatever. (Though, I do hope for band even though I've been all watery over choir... my band kids work so hard... :3)
EEEEE I wish you could feel my happiness right now. T^T