You might notice that none of these workforce initiatives had anything to do with music per say, nothing to do with my choice of repertoire, nothing to do with how I approached teaching in two or three parts, or how I worked on vowel production.
What it did emphasize was developing more proactive habits in our students, having them take responsibility for their 7.5 hours work day much like I had learned to take care of my 16.5 business day.
I won’t begin to pretend that it was a cake walk or easy or that there weren't profound mistakes I made along the way.
Just as I make a few mistakes with each these 1,500 word writing pieces I produce, I made miscalculations and mistakes with this program as well as many others – but I got much more right than wrong.
Developing a workforce, job applications, and a leadership team required that I make what I called “chorus corrections” along the way. Yes, I made errors, but I made much more progress than I would if I had just sat still and done nothing. And so did my students.
I knew that there were many teachers in my school working diligently to provide similar character trait training for their students. It felt right supporting their classroom efforts.
When I finally walked away on my last day, I knew that I had dedicated my energies on the right things.
Giving so many children a safe construct for learning the basic ropes of wanting, earning, and keeping a job is easily one of the teaching achievements i'm mist proud of.
As Irving berlin wrote, "The song has ended but the melody lingers on", long after the chorus has disbanded, the proactive idea of getting a job, having pride in it, and staying the course even when the going gets rough is the real leason I hope you'll consider implimenting in YOUR program.
Just look at the pride and sense of achievement on Yasir’s face.
What it did emphasize was developing more proactive habits in our students, having them take responsibility for their 7.5 hours work day much like I had learned to take care of my 16.5 business day.
I won’t begin to pretend that it was a cake walk or easy or that there weren't profound mistakes I made along the way.
Just as I make a few mistakes with each these 1,500 word writing pieces I produce, I made miscalculations and mistakes with this program as well as many others – but I got much more right than wrong.
Developing a workforce, job applications, and a leadership team required that I make what I called “chorus corrections” along the way. Yes, I made errors, but I made much more progress than I would if I had just sat still and done nothing. And so did my students.
I knew that there were many teachers in my school working diligently to provide similar character trait training for their students. It felt right supporting their classroom efforts.
When I finally walked away on my last day, I knew that I had dedicated my energies on the right things.
Giving so many children a safe construct for learning the basic ropes of wanting, earning, and keeping a job is easily one of the teaching achievements i'm mist proud of.
As Irving berlin wrote, "The song has ended but the melody lingers on", long after the chorus has disbanded, the proactive idea of getting a job, having pride in it, and staying the course even when the going gets rough is the real leason I hope you'll consider implimenting in YOUR program.
Just look at the pride and sense of achievement on Yasir’s face.
By now, you are probably realizing that the non-music priorities were definitely feeding our musical priorities and vice a versa.
If I hadn't done this program my last year, would my life have been easier? Probably.
Would I have had more free time in my 13.5 hour business day designed to increase my income? Definitely.
But as Dr. Covey says ‘begin with the end in mind’, and that had been in my mind for a long time.
I knew how I wanted to go out from teaching.
Burt even more, I knew how I wanted my students to continue on after I wasn't there.
If I hadn't done this program my last year, would my life have been easier? Probably.
Would I have had more free time in my 13.5 hour business day designed to increase my income? Definitely.
But as Dr. Covey says ‘begin with the end in mind’, and that had been in my mind for a long time.
I knew how I wanted to go out from teaching.
Burt even more, I knew how I wanted my students to continue on after I wasn't there.
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