I interviewed both my best friend Natalie and my Boyfriend Steven they both had a lot of similarities.
Natalie is a Biochemistry major at Laurier. Steven is in his victory lap in high school but is going into carpentry. I asked them both about their musical backgrounds: Natalie played the flute in elementary school and through high school and in high school they picked up the guitar and was in a couple of the school musicals as a vocalist. She never really played music outside of school events. Steven played trumpet in elementary school and only did grade 9 music playing percussion just for the art credit. However Steven plays the bagpipes outside of school in the air force band and volunteers with army and air cadets to teach them bagpipes. I asked them why they didn't decide to go to school for music and their answers were both that they are comfortable with their current/future majors because of the security of jobs. Steven also mentioned how there aren't many schools that have bagpipes besides Simon Fraser University but he didn't want to move across the country. I think if there wasn't such a bad stigma about having a career in music that they definitely would have considered a music career more. Since Steven didn't continue with music in high school I asked him why and he mentioned how he didn't enjoy playing the typical instruments we learn in schools so I asked if schools should incorporate other instruments into the curriculum and he said "sure but not the bagpipes unless a good bagpiper is teaching no one will learn it right" I asked why that is and he didn't give me an answer. I think other instruments would be cool to bring in maybe for a fun day to learn about or something but not full time. I asked who their influential teachers were and they both mentioned a Music teacher they have had. Dispite them not going into music they found their music teachers to be the most influential person in their lives which I found very interesting. I think music teachers are the most influential teachers out there because they help push creativity and I personally have been the most stressed out while learning a new piece and the music teachers were ready to help without me even asking.
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I interviewed my very first private teacher who I haven't spoken to in years. The questions I asked related to both education over all and music education.
My first question I asked was. What does education mean to you. She responded with, "Education is the path to success and as an educator it it my job to give the tools my students need to succeed in whatever they plan to do whether in music or not. Education is something we should value and not take for granted." She touched on the fact that we should not take it for granted and she later mentioned how some people take education for granted because there are still people in the world with a poor education and that we in a country with access to free public education some people use it as their play ground or social hours and they don't care about the whole learning aspect. I asked her how she goes about teaching. She responded saying she likes making relationships with students because it makes them feel safer and more at home when they are in an environment that they can trust. Formal learning: Where teaching is done following a strict curriculum and a strict lesson plan
I would use this method when teaching theory or history in a high school setting. Informal learning: Not following a strict lesson plan and just focusing on the process rather than the end goal I would use this method in more of a high school band context when learning a new piece of music. Non formal learning: focused on learning outside of a school setting. I would use this method by taking students to see a band or a choir on a field trip and get them to reflect on what they hear and see and what they can improve on. |
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