Tag: First Teaching Job

• Thoughts on Concert Programing or All You Need to Know about Planning Your Concert

  

  As a young band director, one of my many challenges was how to program for concerts.  Being in a small Midwestern high school with a strong and dominant jazz program, planning the concert band concerts was more difficult than I had anticipated. First of all, the concert band instrumentation was far from balanced. With the…

  TimBaldwinMusic

  30 Mar 2022

  Tools for Teaching, Why Band?

  Band, concert programing, concerts, First Teaching Job, Lessons Learned, music concert, Music Education, planning concerts, School Bands

• Things I Should Have Learned in College but Didn’t

  

  Things I Should Have Learned in College but Didn’t When I graduated with a BA in Music Education I was sure I was ready to take on any band program out there.  I came from a small but strong band program.  My band teacher was a great musician, patient, firm and fundamentals based. My undergrad…

  TimBaldwinMusic

  24 Jan 2022

  Why Band?

  First Teaching Job, Lessons Learned, Music Education, Teaching Experience