First one

I see that I am the first to blog. I'm not exactly sure what we are supposed to talk about so I will just talk. Student teaching is going very well, I love it in fact. Last night I had my first rehearsal with the Marching Band. When I say first I mean first EVER. I was nervously thrown in but it went very well. They have me working with the pit and the kids were pretty good at adjusting to a conductor who has never worked with a band before. It was cold outside but it was fun. I also taught a lesson on Gregorian chant yesterday which was OK. This was a subject that was never too exciting for myself so it was difficult to come up with a way to teach it that would not only keep the students awake but would allow me to stay engaged my own lesson. It went well. Hopefully it will get better everytime. I guess we all just need to experience teaching hands on everyday before its ever perfect.

The articles assigned for this week are interesting. The idea of "childhood" and what it means is interesting. School plays a huge role in a human childhood where we sit all day and learn, learn, learn. If it weren't this way then what way would it be? Everything starts from some beginning. If we never learn 2+2=4 then how are we expected to know that 4-2=2? If children were born and expected to become adults by the age of 6 do we simply throw them into an Algebra class? By separating the students by their age, for instance 4th, 5th, 6th grade etc. we are establishing that they will have a childhood and an adolecence. The only way to drastically change how they are grouped in school we would have to change their roles in society as well. That might be a little more difficult.