Yep. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I've spent a lot of time telling people about this. I'm really not interested in teaching a classroom full of kids right now (that could change though). I love the one-on-one time with my horn students. I love how in depth we get with our lessons. I love how I can have a brief period of time to get to know each and every one of them!
I believe by knowing what type of kid I'm teaching horn to, I can better explain things in the language they'll understand. I can discuss rhythm differently and on higher levels with my math wiz kids. I can talk about music as a structure or language to some of my more 'humanities' inclined students.
I think I finally figured out what one of my Jr High kids is - or at least might be... a programmer. Periodically we talk about his favorite class where he builds robots that do stuff. Today I asked how he made robots do things. "I just program things into the computer that tell it what to do."
Brilliant! I've got a little programmer on my hands! Then I realized later... how the heck do I converse with a programmer? That is a whole world I've never really understood.
So I'm sending this question to anyone reading this: how do programmers think? How do they see the world? Are any of you out there a programmer or close friends to one? Married to one? What have you experienced?
Anyways, I'll wrap this up by posting a link to a board on my pinterest. (You can follow all my boards here.) I figure my 'classroom' is just practice room after practice room until I graduate to having my own studio one day. Here's a look at my dream music/practice rooms:
One of my favorites is this one:
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| September 1969. “Practice Room: the bright way to a sound-absorbing studio. There’s rush matting on the walls and an underfoot of sunny, shaggy carpeting.” Perfect! |
I'm such a retro girl at heart.
