by Bonnie | Jan 9, 2015 | Reflections and Caveats, Teaching in a Crisis
This was a tough year for my family. Between December of 2013 to March 2014 my dad spent 120 consecutive days in the hospital. Most of those days were in ICU. I’m pleased to say that he is doing VERY well today, but it has been a long and difficult journey....
by Bonnie | Jan 2, 2015 | music teacher encouragement, Reflections and Caveats, Teaching in a Crisis |
For my friends who will notice….. First, a word about using “aide” rather than “aid”. Aid refers to inanimate objects usually in reference to first aid kits. You can be an “aide” as in “presidential aide” or...
by Bonnie | Jan 1, 2015 | music teacher encouragement, Reflections and Caveats |
Resolution #1 – I will provide aesthetic experiences for my students No matter if I am teaching a song with two pitches, beginning recorder or a song with kazoos I will work to find ways to draw the attention and effort of my students to the aesthetic aspects...
by Bonnie | Aug 15, 2014 | music teacher encouragement, Professional Collaboration, Reflections and Caveats, Roadmaps and Lesson Plans
Today my wonderful co-teacher and I got a chance to sit down together and map out the first few weeks of school. Since this year we aren’t both new to the school, we were able to get done in about an hour what took us at least 3 hours last year. We...
by Bonnie | Sep 4, 2013 | music teacher encouragement, Reflections and Caveats
Spring 2002 – 2nd year of teaching with my co-teacher Meredith Leblanc…. We were trying for the “American Gothic” look This is my 15th year of teaching general music. This year I began teaching at my 3rd school and the changes have made me...
by Bonnie | Jul 20, 2013 | music teacher encouragement, Reflections and Caveats |
As part of this Ultimate Blog Challenge I have decided to challenge myself to write a blog post every day for 31 days! for TWO blogs! Before this challenge, the most posts that I had managed in one month was 15 posts for one blog and HALF of those didn’t...
