5 Questions To Ask Before You Teach Each Class Classroom Management by Joel Wagner - May 27, 2013May 28, 20162 As I was going through some old paperwork a couple of weeks ago, I came across the binder that I used with my band three years ago. I remember that was a difficult year because the classes were terribly large. My first period brass class had somewhere around 60 students, and my second period woodwind class had just over 70 students. As you might imagine, this posed a number of classroom management issues from time to time and really had the potential to wear me out. In the very front of that binder, I found a pre-class checklist that I had come up with and was flooded with memories. I think most of these questions will, if applied on a
Audio: 03/28/08 Music Education by Joel Wagner - March 30, 2008July 2, 20105 I recently got a little $20 voice recorded device for my iPod because I figured it might make good quality recordings of class. I was right. Here's 25 minutes from this past Friday's woodwind class for those who want to hear what goes on in my classroom. Not sure if this will be interesting to most of you, but it's worth a shot. Let me know if these are interesting or of value to any of you. The music we worked on is Sakura by Michael Story and Voodoo Dance by Eliot del Borgo. Listen here