pattern, and having the students conduct a
18. Make a List of Successful Area Music
warm up or pas sage. Pick an exercise or pas-
Educators With Good-Sounding
Useful Resources:
Ensembles
sage that the band needs to reinforce
Call or email them and ask if you can
anyway.
observe one of their ensemble rehearsals.
A starter list of suggested recordings to
play for students as they enter the
15. Consider Practice-Free Expectations
Take a clipboard and take notes in the back
rehears al hall each day:
How much practice time are your stu-
of the room as you watch and listen to the
Flute: Rampal, Galway
dents really doing outside of rehearsal? How
rehearsal. Write down things that might
Oboe: Elaine Dubois, John Mack,
many practice cards are turned in with inac-
work for your own ensemble, and also
Richard Woodhelms
curate information or forged signatures?
notice things that might not work for you.
Bassoon: Laurence Perkins, Benjamin
How much time do you spend grading
Every school and every ensemble is differ-
Coelho, Ezequiel Faniguersch
practice cards? Consider making a deal with
ent. It’s very instructive to notice what
Clarinet: Mitchell Lurie, Richard
your students: you (the teacher) agree to
others are doing, or what they aren’t.
Stolzman
arrive at each and every rehearsal 100% pre-
Can you arrange to have one of these
Saxophone: Harvey Pittel, Marcel Mule,
pared, and the stu dents agree to give their
other directors visit your campus and cri-
Sigaurd Rasher, Arno Borncamp
absolute 100% effort during that rehearsal
tique your group? If you don’t have budget
Trumpet: Allen Vizzutti, Philip Smith,
time. Consider the time saved and produc-
money to pay for a clinic, ask if you can
Tommy Stevens, Wynton Marsalis
tivity gained.
treat them to lunch or dinner sometime.
You and your ensemble can learn a great
Horn: Dale Clevenger
Trombone: Christian Lindberg, Eugene
16. Planning Ahead is a Daily Process
deal from having another “set of ears” on
Watts
(Plan Next Year This Year!) the podium. This plan can free you to move
Don’t wait until this summer to start around the rehearsal room while they play,
Tuba: Roger Bobo, Sam Pilaflan
think ing about the upcoming school year. to listen for things you haven’t heard
Percussion: Nexus Percussion Ensemble,
Instead, at your computer today during the before. Have a clipboard and take notes as
Black Earth Percussion Ensemble;
prep peri od, create a new folder titled you do this. Address your bullet points
Nancy Zeltsman (mallets); Stuart
“2009-2010.” Each time you find yourself during your next rehearsal.
Mars
updating a form, letter, handout, permis-
Ensembles: U.S. Marine Band or other
sion slip, and so forth, copy it into the new
19. Make a Plan to Attend Music
good service bands, Canadian Brass,
folder also. Keep your current documents
Conferences
Empire Brass, Eastman Wind
handy, but also start a file of what you will
You can only give your students what
Ensemble, Cincinnati Conservatory,
need for the upcoming year. You will be
you know. Continue to learn and to grow as
North Texas State (Jazz and Wind
amazed at how doing such tasks can save
an educator. In our discipline, learning
Ensemble) - many others possible!
time when you start to think about the
cannot stop with a college diploma. Make it
upcoming semester.
a per sonal goal of yours to attend at least
Sam Andress is the founding director of the
one con ference this year, and take away
Los Olos High School Band and Color Guard
17. Does Your Program Have a Website? Is
from that conference at least three things
Program in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. A native
it Updated Regularly? that will help improve your own teaching.
of Arizona, Andress holds a Bachelor of Music
You might be amazed at how efficient Learn something new every semester! This
Degree in Music Education from the University
online resources can be for your music pro- time spent will pay dividends toward
of Arizona (Tucson), a Master’s Degree in Music
gram. Consider the idea of setting up a improving your ensembles! Education from Azusa Pacific University, and is
simple and useful website. Your site might completing the Doctoral of Music Arts Degree
include the following resources:
20. E-mail or Phone Other District in wind band conducting from Claremont
• Non-copyright music (scale sheets,
Directors: Invite Them to Happy Hour Graduate University. He is a member of the
Later This Week
tech nique exercises, etudes, etc.). No
Southern California School Band and Orchestra
Successful music educators network
more standing in front of the copier
Association and MENC.
con stantly. They share ideas, borrow music, Scott Bonner teaches instrumental music at
after school copying scale sheets for
and clinic and adjudicate each others’ Day Creek Intermediate School in Rancho
tomorrow’s rehearsal - assign your stu-
bands. Successful music educators know
Cucamonga, CA. He holds a Bachelor of Arts
dents a home work project to print it
that they cannot operate in isolation. To be
Degree in Music Education from California
from the website.
good at what we do, we must work to keep
Polytechnic University, Pomona, a Master’s
• Fundraising handouts and informa-
the lines of communication open. We must
Degree in Music Education from the University
tion. of Redlands, and is pursuing his Juris Doctor
continue to learn and to grow in the profes-
• Booster club information. Degree from the University of La Verne College
sion. Networking is most successful if it
• Recruiting information and materials
of Law. He is a member of the Southern
happens on a consistent basis. Can you set a
for incoming students.
California School Band and Orchestra
day and time for a weekly get-together with
• A “frequently asked questions” page.
Association and the San Bernardino County
your col leagues?
• Course syllabus (now everyone is
Music Educators Association.
accountable).
About the Authors
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