Next week, I have two grade levels doing their shows on the same day. Fourth grade sounds great! My fifth graders, however, were really worrying me. Last week, after too much playing around and not sounding well-prepared, I cut two songs (they loved the two songs, but they love most of them) and I decided that many others they would only sing one verse of. So this weekend, I loaded songs into Garage Band and cut out verses (I was really proud of figuring out how) and burned a CD with their new concert repertoire. Then today they blew me away. All of the sudden they sound much better. Apparently they realized it would be embarrassing to sound bad on stage (that's what one boy remarked). So I put a song back in (the teacher running the CD player will just have to switch CDs for that one). I'm feeling much better now.
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Students can really be surprising at times. Sometimes they can unexpectedly perform at their very best - more than what we have expected. The same experiences have happened to me too for many, many times. I am glad that you're able to feel better and your students were able to do it positively and successfully - going beyond your expectations. Just in case you're interested, please feel free to learn and adopt new and interactive music teaching resources from reliable music teachers websites and software. Take advantage of this opportunity today and see how it can take your music teaching experience to the next level. See you there!
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