During my time teaching through this practicum I had learned a lot specifically about percussion and the education process. During my time teaching through this practicum I had learned a lot specifically about percussion and the education process. I had observed and then eventually taught a small group of beginning percussionist. Through my observation I had learned it can be a long and tedious process when teaching them they will face a completely different array of challenges that most beginning musicians won't have to face. One of the biggest challenges that I had observed from this is rhythms are way harder than an average beginning musician. At a very young age percussionist are taking on rhythms most students won't see till they are in high school. Being able to draw attention to things that then can see they are playing together or even ideas that are playing off of one another. Also being able to help them find better ways to understand their instruments because each one is completely different and has their own secrets in which to play them. Reflecting onto the time I spent teaching, the group I was working with was actually sight reading at the time. That was unfortunate because I wrote my lesson plan out in a way that I was going to cover more than just notes and rhythms but I needed to adapt and almost completely do over my lesson on the spot. This gave me a lot of good practice for my on the fly teaching abilities as well as my percussion skills. From my teaching video you can also see that their seems to be a lot of transitional issues, that's just another unfortunate part of sight reading with percussionist, they have a lot of transitional things they figure out on the fly and that just happened to be while I was teaching. Overall I felt like there was a lot of good progress in my teaching I just with they were not sight reading so I could have had a better experience when I was teaching and wouldn't feel like everything was a mess the while time.
From what I got from my other practicums, we did a lot of observation on the jazz subject. I think I enjoyed seeing others in my class learn about jazz more than I enjoyed watching the kids. This soli being because I feel like we don't cover enough of jazz for as much as it is used in high school as an extra ensemble. I got from this practicum that a lot of jazz programs seem to suffer, I also went and saw another jazz band and it seemed to be the same problems with attendance. I really feel like a lot of this class is just trying to motivate the students in order to rehearse successfully.
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