I got my student teaching assignment over the weekend, and frankly it scares me a little. I have been assigned to work with a teacher who does woodwinds grades 7-9, and I am a brass guy... I really am not so good with woodwinds, I'm terrible at playing them, I mix the fingerings up all the time, so it will be an adventure.
This kind of made me think about my instrumental methods and materials class. The course is taught by the band director at my university, he is a very particular guy, but he is a solid classroom teacher. As a part of our methods course he insisted that everyone was to learn the fingerings for all of the common instruments used in band and orchestra. At the time we all hated the quizzes we would take daily, but I realize now that these quizzes are a life saver, because I have to use that information now. I'm honestly scared, but at least I have some basic idea of what is going on.
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