Energy Suckers
Had a great positive day. Homespun Community Dance is doing a dance residency at my school this week. Of course I struggled through the scheduling of it trying to make about 50 teachers happy when there is less then 1/4 of the school left is not an easy task.
Homespun Community Dance is a very cool group of older gentlemen who play instruments and teach folk dances from around the world. The cool thing is that they are performing the music with the students as they dance. The day went off well, except for a few glitches. Presetting students can be a very important aspect of teaching if you want smoother transitions. I am a music teacher only seeing my students once a week for forty minutes. During my time with them I preset them for this event. I also asked my faculty at our faculty meeting to do the same, with several email reminders. I do understand how jam packed an educators day is especially in our day of TESTING but a little preset would have solved a whole of lot of problems today.
My students do not do well with change and transitions so letting them know not to bring their swimming gear so that they knew they would not be swimming today would have helped me so that I did not have to deal with 11-13 year old students throwing temper tantrums. I guess I will have to remember that when I am asked to set up a sound system for someone or asked to teach a song, but that is not the kind of educator that I am. I am a team player looking out for the best interest of all my students even it if means taking a few minutes away from my lesson to preset them for their next activity for a smooth transition.
The positive energy was very abundant. i have dealt with the lack of presetting for my students and then the
Energy SUCKER just sucks every last drop of positiveness from my soul. Thanks ENERGY SUCKER!!!
This is when I could just run to the furtherest ends of the earth never to return!
Homespun Community Dance is a very cool group of older gentlemen who play instruments and teach folk dances from around the world. The cool thing is that they are performing the music with the students as they dance. The day went off well, except for a few glitches. Presetting students can be a very important aspect of teaching if you want smoother transitions. I am a music teacher only seeing my students once a week for forty minutes. During my time with them I preset them for this event. I also asked my faculty at our faculty meeting to do the same, with several email reminders. I do understand how jam packed an educators day is especially in our day of TESTING but a little preset would have solved a whole of lot of problems today.
My students do not do well with change and transitions so letting them know not to bring their swimming gear so that they knew they would not be swimming today would have helped me so that I did not have to deal with 11-13 year old students throwing temper tantrums. I guess I will have to remember that when I am asked to set up a sound system for someone or asked to teach a song, but that is not the kind of educator that I am. I am a team player looking out for the best interest of all my students even it if means taking a few minutes away from my lesson to preset them for their next activity for a smooth transition.
The positive energy was very abundant. i have dealt with the lack of presetting for my students and then the
Energy SUCKER just sucks every last drop of positiveness from my soul. Thanks ENERGY SUCKER!!!
This is when I could just run to the furtherest ends of the earth never to return!
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