My Essential Question
My Essential Question: How can I further develop, progress, and improve teaching the art of music, as well as my teaching style?
Why did I select this as my essential question? I feel it’s important to reflect on one’s own teaching, and really transfer the idea that you are teaching an art to students. In the first of my annotated bibliographies, the article I chose spoke a lot about how students usually learn the basics and mechanics of their instrument, but not the artistry of it, and how it really can become an outlet to express emotion. So, in my essential question, I found it suitable to address this discrepancy, and throughout my mentorship find ways to answer the question.
What excites me most about finding the answer to this question? Simply the journey that I will spend trying to find the answer. Being in front of the bands, and rehearsing and teaching has already helped me so much, not just as a teacher, but as a musician as well. I love when I find a method that they understand, and I can get across the message I’m trying to send them. So, what excites me is continuing to find ways to communicate with and teach the bands. I’m also excited to continue my own education and continue to discover new ways and means in my own teaching style.
Do I feel that this question accurately reflects a desire/need that I have to find out more about this topic? Yes. I feel that this question reflects one of the main themes that I come across with my mentorship almost every day. As I mentioned before, I strive every day to find new ways of teaching, and that is a desire that I fulfill through my mentorship. I always need to find new ways of communicating, new ways to teach, and new concepts to listen for and explain to the students. My desire to learn more about this topic grows every day as I learn new things about the students, and then I think, how can I do this even better? And that is what my mentor helps me with, and what I hope to research more about.
Why did I select this as my essential question? I feel it’s important to reflect on one’s own teaching, and really transfer the idea that you are teaching an art to students. In the first of my annotated bibliographies, the article I chose spoke a lot about how students usually learn the basics and mechanics of their instrument, but not the artistry of it, and how it really can become an outlet to express emotion. So, in my essential question, I found it suitable to address this discrepancy, and throughout my mentorship find ways to answer the question.
What excites me most about finding the answer to this question? Simply the journey that I will spend trying to find the answer. Being in front of the bands, and rehearsing and teaching has already helped me so much, not just as a teacher, but as a musician as well. I love when I find a method that they understand, and I can get across the message I’m trying to send them. So, what excites me is continuing to find ways to communicate with and teach the bands. I’m also excited to continue my own education and continue to discover new ways and means in my own teaching style.
Do I feel that this question accurately reflects a desire/need that I have to find out more about this topic? Yes. I feel that this question reflects one of the main themes that I come across with my mentorship almost every day. As I mentioned before, I strive every day to find new ways of teaching, and that is a desire that I fulfill through my mentorship. I always need to find new ways of communicating, new ways to teach, and new concepts to listen for and explain to the students. My desire to learn more about this topic grows every day as I learn new things about the students, and then I think, how can I do this even better? And that is what my mentor helps me with, and what I hope to research more about.