Discipline/Management

Secondary Music
Kelsey Wilhelm
10-21-09
Teaching Discipline- Chapter 1
#3 What does “discipline” involve?
Discipline in any music classroom involves the same basic ideas and techniques as other classrooms. The book discusses that the authoritive figure must have courage as their underlying idea and this will help them lay down their approach toward classroom management. Specifically, the music teacher must be able to properly encourage and authorate proper practicing, classroom obedience, behavior, and classroom organization. Of these, the ones pertaining to classroom time can include following conducting gestures, following verbal direction, and obtaining a composed and disciplined/manageable classroom behavior. To do this, the music teacher must keep consistent and manageable rules that they follow and use as guidelines-STRICTLY- for every student.
#10 How is worry (depression) reinforced?
When a student comes up to the teacher saying, “I won’t perform well at contests because I cannot play this passage well,” The teacher must say, “Well, did you practice effectively and consistently throughout your preparation time? And if not, how can you fix and change that next time?” rather than, “I am sorry to hear, it will be ok.” Those reconciliations are not real and merely cover up the fact that there was a problem initially to create the worry and anxiety in the student. Also, if they did not get their homework done, you might investigate whether a television show had their attention the night before rather than their studies.
Rather than hiding or covering up the problem by feeling sorry and nurturing them, you must help them fix the problem before it gets out of hand. You must show them that if they cannot keep a disciplined attitude towards things, the end result will not be what they want and leave them depressed.