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The Village
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Observations, rants, and plausible. Deniability from a person who refuses. To be a prisoner of his own world. Southern California, United States. My Screenplay - Draft Three. On my Kindle 2. The Honda FCX Clarity. Close Enough For Jazz. Married To The Sea. Combine the economy, the needs of family, and desires of the soul;. Add age, remove time;. Books read in 2011:. Limitless (The Dark Fields). By Tom Clancy (with Grant Blackwood). Full Dark, No Stars. Right Pissed With Myself, I Am . Oh, HEREs my Blog!
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The Village
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Observations, rants, and plausible. Deniability from a person who refuses. To be a prisoner of his own world. Southern California, United States. My Screenplay - Draft Three. On my Kindle 2. The Honda FCX Clarity. Close Enough For Jazz. Married To The Sea. Combine the economy, the needs of family, and desires of the soul;. Add age, remove time;. Books read in 2011:. Limitless (The Dark Fields). By Tom Clancy (with Grant Blackwood). Full Dark, No Stars. Right Pissed With Myself, I Am . Oh, HEREs my Blog!
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Teaching Music: The Music Teacher Work-out
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Friday, April 8, 2011. The Music Teacher Work-out. Arrive to office on second floor; go downstairs to sign in. Back upstairs to office. Lug 28 drums to first two classes, still in the box they came in (I've been feeling it all week in my shoulder). Practice Hora with second class. Run all around during lunch making copies, etc. Class movement activity showing high and low notes by moving body higher and lower; really works the legs. Close Enough For Jazz.
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Teaching Music: It's their game; I can't win
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Sunday, March 20, 2011. It's their game; I can't win. So I think a big part of the problem I've had with my principal is a difference in priorities: she wants me to put on spectacular shows to entertain the all-important community, and I want to educate the students. And when some of the students are kindergartners, you can't exactly do both. So when she "gave me the option" of putting on a talent show, I figured I'd better. March 20, 2011 at 11:55 PM.
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Teaching Music: March 2009
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Monday, March 30, 2009. How to get students to behave. Isn't that just about the biggest questions of teaching? My student teaching experiences did not prepare me for this question: I was teaching in much different populations in established classrooms, and the teachers rarely left me alone to fend for myself. Luckily, in my (almost) 3 years of teaching, I've learned a lot. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Break out the champagne? She was NOT happy. I think s...
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Teaching Music: How to teach music with a minimum of supplies
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Friday, March 11, 2011. How to teach music with a minimum of supplies. My position right now I teach classes from K-5, plus a self-contained moderate-to-severe primary grades SPED class. I started off the year with 0 supplies provided by the school. I luckily had. 30-some-year-old teacher's editions and CD sets meant for grades 4-6 which my previous position had discarded. 30 sets of chopsticks I bought at the Japanese market to use as rhythm sticks.
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Teaching Music: May 2009
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Finally ready for show. Next week, I have two grade levels doing their shows on the same day. Fourth grade sounds great! Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Lately, he's been making progress. First, he was opening his textbook to the correct page! I'm feeling so much better; I will never forget the girl who left last year and I never felt like I could get through to her: she was a classic "revenge behavior" student. So now I have hope. And so ...
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Teaching Music: February 2009
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Thursday, February 26, 2009. I only wish I had had the presence of mind at the time to say what I should have. Monday, February 23, 2009. The Joys of Having a Sub. The worst, however, are when they completely ignore my lesson plan. I had a substitute recently who left no note whatsoever. So I asked the students what happened (and I hate having to ask my students what happens in my own classroom). They told me they watched a movie. I didn't...And sometimes...
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Teaching Music: Mainstreaming Special Ed with Music
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Monday, May 4, 2009. Mainstreaming Special Ed with Music. Here's what I've tried: Communicating with the teacher so that she'll be more involved with the lesson. Unfortunately, she seems really dingy and either interrupts. Me and the flow of teaching or just sits off to the side. I've proposed giving them their own class time (can't because their IEPs. Has anyone had similar frustrations? Are there any suggestions you have? May 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM. Keep i...
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Teaching Music: One concert down and one presumptuous teacher
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My experiences teaching general elementary music. Friday, April 24, 2009. One concert down and one presumptuous teacher. And I agreed. A big difference for this year was that one of the teachers, who usually did a lot with the show, had retired, so I was really in charge. I think I'll try to keep the show the same kind of thing for next year, with maybe more instruments. At this point I'm wondering if I need to involve the principal. April 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM. Okay, so the ID in me hears that story and w...
