James Coleman
Standard 7
The teacher of PK-12 music demonstrates professional responsibility and reflective practice.
Effective music teachers go above and beyond the call of duty to create a well-rounded and diverse educational experience for their students. Contributing to a culturally diverse education process, enhancing students' musical experiences to help them grow towards individual fulfillment, meeting needs of the learners, and collaborating with other teachers to create a cohesive learning environment are qualities that simply must be present in a successful music educator. Music educators must be competent outside of their classroom and display overall responsibility and professionalism through the maintenance of equipment in the classroom, performing administrative duties, and collaboration with other teachers. These tasks will help a music educator keep his/her program on the uprising for years to come.
Through my education classes at KSU, the writing of culturally relevant lesson plans, and my leadership with the Kansas State Marching Band, I have acquired a good amount of knowledge of how to act and perform professionally in an educational setting, as well as how to complete the responsibilities of being a band director. I took classes such as Educational Psychology and Human Development which helped me to gain valuable knowledge with how to responsibly teach students based upon their various levels of growth and cognitive abilities. Through my leadership with the K-State Marching Band, I have had a chance to practice some basic administrative tasks such as taking attendance, keeping inventory and maintenance of instruments, and organizing groups of people for performances. These skills make me qualified for standard seven because I have learned how to maintain and organize equipment, as well as how to form relationships with community members and other organizations.
My classroom will not just teach music to my students. I strive to be an educator of the whole child, and I seek to give students a chance to improve in every area of their individualism, not just with regards to music. Using culturally diverse teaching methods as well as developing new experiences for my students will allow me to help them grow as individuals. By opening their eyes to other cultures, it gives them a bit more perspective about what and how their life fits into the world and society. I have no doubt that my classroom will benefit from this culturally diverse teaching because it will help meet the needs of all students, which is exactly what a responsible and professional educator should attempt to do.
Through my education classes at KSU, the writing of culturally relevant lesson plans, and my leadership with the Kansas State Marching Band, I have acquired a good amount of knowledge of how to act and perform professionally in an educational setting, as well as how to complete the responsibilities of being a band director. I took classes such as Educational Psychology and Human Development which helped me to gain valuable knowledge with how to responsibly teach students based upon their various levels of growth and cognitive abilities. Through my leadership with the K-State Marching Band, I have had a chance to practice some basic administrative tasks such as taking attendance, keeping inventory and maintenance of instruments, and organizing groups of people for performances. These skills make me qualified for standard seven because I have learned how to maintain and organize equipment, as well as how to form relationships with community members and other organizations.
My classroom will not just teach music to my students. I strive to be an educator of the whole child, and I seek to give students a chance to improve in every area of their individualism, not just with regards to music. Using culturally diverse teaching methods as well as developing new experiences for my students will allow me to help them grow as individuals. By opening their eyes to other cultures, it gives them a bit more perspective about what and how their life fits into the world and society. I have no doubt that my classroom will benefit from this culturally diverse teaching because it will help meet the needs of all students, which is exactly what a responsible and professional educator should attempt to do.
Artifact #1
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Above is a classroom management model that I made for one of my block 2 classes at K-State. This model features classroom rules and the reasoning behind each of them. These rules mainly focus on mutual respect in the classroom between teacher and student because it helps maintain healthy relationships for learning. I believe that in order to teach proper responsibility and professionalism to your students, you must first be able to serve as a role model of those exact qualities. If you show students that you can follow the rules that you set in place, then they will be more likely to abide by them.
Artifact #2
This is a picture of the trumpet studio handbook that we utilized at K-State. This book covers a variety of trumpet related topics, but it also has some extremely good sections that cover concert etiquette and aspects of professionalism. Students are expected to bow to their audience as acknowledgment of the audience's willingness to take time out of their day to attend your performance. During the performance, students are to maintain a good stage presence and have a good time while still taking it seriously. Once the performance is over, bow to the audience to acknowledge them, and gesture to the accompanist if there is one. By teaching students about proper pieces of concert etiquette you are helping them develop skills that they will be able to use for the rest of their lives.