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The following question is posted by Matt Lee @ J.P. Stevens High School: How important is sight reading in your audition process? Please answer via the ‘Ask A Choir Director’ box and the results will be reported back here!
…another Great Post from Matthew Lee! Matt’s Top 10: We learn by doing… Your student learn by doing, too… You get as much out of your singers as you put in… If what you’re doing isn’t working, don’t be too proud to try something else or take feedback from your students… YOU are the teacher… […]
You say, to your audience, here I am. Here is my art. I hope you enjoy – I’ve been working hard on it. There’s no true way to predict how our audience will react, because we are blind to their expectations just as they are blind to the sweat and tears that went into our art. 5 minutes onstage, one painting on the wall, can represent 50 hours or more. But up to that point, it took us the proverbial 10,000 hours to hone our craft.
I wanted to share with you this great resource for how to turn your choral classroom into a “flipped classroom” model.
As I was reading the “NJ September Ready Arts Education” document from artsednj.org, it re-dawned on me that every teacher in the state has had the difficult task to figure out how to make their music classes meaningful while staying connected. So how do we do that?? Below I have brainstormed a few things that I will be trying this Fall, provided that school is either a hybrid model or entirely online.