MUSIC 23241: MUSIC TEACHING AS A PROFESSION
Mr. Marcus L. Neiman, Assistant Professor
Kent State University School of Music
Fall, 2011
CRN: 200910 – Section number: 001 – Class Days: TR 7:45a – 8:35 am - Classroom: SOM E202
Office: Band Office - 330.672.2965 - Telephone: 330.672.2965 (Kent Campus) - E-mail: mneiman@kent.edu
Office Hours: TR 9:00 – 9:55 am (Additional hours available by appointment)
BlackBoard and Text Readings
Submitted by: Ryan Critchfield
Submitted for: Mr. Marcus L. Neiman, lecturer
Date: 11/29/11
TRIAD, Volume 52, Issue 4 Page 1.
Summary of the Article: This is a very short article about Smith’s very personal experience with singing in the schools. He started as a very timid boy who did not have the hopes to sing in the upcoming play until his music teacher encourages him to audition. With the private audition, he was able to get the spot in front the play, and had very high self esteem of his abilities. The following year however, when a new music teacher listens to his audition for another musical. He is apparently a very experienced teacher, but new to children who are so young. He asks Smith “Who told you you could sing?” After that encounter he became shy and timid all over again, and did not sing for years.
Personal statements: This article may have been the shortest one I have read all semester, but it is one of my favorites. I always believe success is derived from confidence, and if you can instill confidence and drive in a student they will learn as far as they can. But with the case of the second teacher in this story, he erased all progress that had been made, and slowed it for years. In the case of the first teacher, the confidence took minutes to achieve and erased so many doubts the young man might have had. But it took six words to destroy a boys confidence in his abilities, and even at the time he wrote that article, Smith still remembers the second experience most vividly.
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