The Dreaming Tree

January 13, 2012

One of my clarinet students captured perfectly what we do as teachers.  He was in a band that a friend of mine student taught with.  My friend did a great job student teaching.  Part of growing as a teacher is trying new methods to learn what works and what doesn’t.  Here’s how my student described it:  ”He tried some things that worked really, really well, and some things that didn’t work at all, and I don’t know what’s real anymore!”