Teaching Notes, 20100607

As you might have noticed, these are notes for 20100607, although I'm writing them in August.  That's because 20100607 was a repeat of the same class on 20100526, except it was the last class for my later class.  I had the same lesson plan, and it had just about the same success, although this second class was a little rowdier, as they had been all year.  Of course, it has been several months, so I don't really recall all of the details.  I do recall that Sing A Song was pretty successful, although the recording wasn't so useful since some of the students sang right into the microphone at full blast.

With that, however, I will no longer be teaching at Montclaire, as it appear that I will be bringing Music for Minors over to College Park in San Mateo next year, where my son will start Kindergarten.  I have always wanted to make sure that my own kids get music as elementary school children, and thus I'll be teaching at CP instead.

As for lessons learned through the year, the one thing that I did learn was to not schedule my classes the first thing on a Monday morning.  That pretty much mortgaged my workweek right off the bat.  Plus, it seemed like events (usually health-related) over the weekend led to an immediate scramble to cancel classes; cancellations seemed to be easier to manage the previous year when I was teaching on a Friday.