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"To what extent am I committed to change what I am doing"

• I feel that everyday I am changing as a teacher and as I student. I learn more about who I am in a classroom, each moment I am in one. Even as I observe choir rehearsal I leave with a different understand of who I am as a musician. I want to come out of student teaching a better teacher. I want to learn something from my co-op every day. Some days, that thing is the fact that I will teach minor scales in a way that relates and is comprehensible to the students, others it is that I wont eat lunch in my room everyday. There are so many things that are molding me and changing me as I move through this time that I feel commitment to change is unnecessary, I am going to change no matter what. Change is commited to me.

"To what extent am I committed to change...what my school is doing."

• I am an un-certified teacher with out a degree. I am working with professionals that have been teaching since I have been alive, they have had classes that were difficult or hard to handle, they have had classes that walked into choir tone deaf, they have had a million times more "teachable" moments than I have. These professionals have degrees that I am still waiting to get. These teachers have seen the shift in Music education from aesthetic to practical FIRST HAND while I have only read about it in books, am I honestly "committed to change" what these people are doing?
• Teachers know and believe that learning can occur at any moment in time, therefore I believe that I can teach my coop something. This will cause a change in her teaching style, or maybe the way she explains a musical idea to the next class. I am not committed to changing her and the program she has built, rather I am committed to making myself the best teacher I can be, providing creative activities and thoughtful preparation for class. It is in this way that I will be able to create a change.
• In critical pedagogy we are taught that students and teachers should be on the same level, and should be able to question another. This should cause change in the teachers method and improve students learning. But here is my question, As a student, why do we have to question our teachers? and as a Student teacher why do we have to Question our co-op's. Shouldn't we be questioning ourselves?