November 14, 2009

Today I receive more insight into the course work. I got the impression that what we accomplish during this course will go a long way toward improving music in the school. The first session dealt with journaling and how we should document and evaluation what we do in our classroom. What works and what doesn't, how we can improve on what we do and other way to inspire and communicate with our student. I feel I need to go back and read the book Daniel Pink and incorporated those Senses to help with my classes.

The second session dealt with who or what inspired us to do what we do. In the case of music some of the members of the class submitted recording of music that inspired them to become musicians and certain people that influenced them. As I was listening to there comments and examples I reflected on how I was influenced. I thought about some recording and people that I encountered in my life but no one person or event stood out as a defining point. My generation goes back to the fifties when television first came to importance, so bascially I my influences range from American Bandstand to Leonard Bertstein's Young People's Concerts. But the main influence would be my parents who unknowingly sang hymns at night and listened to music of all genres on the radio.