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Band AIDS: A Program Guide for the New Band Director
Band Aids is an organizational guide for early career band directors and for more experienced directors seeking new organizational and management strategies and approaches for their school and community bands. The authors present a practical approach to organizing, managing, and teaching an instrumental music program. Classroom management, instrumentation, starting beginners, parent organizations, band trips, and assessment are among the relevant topics presented and discussed. This text is an invaluable guide for directors searching for assistance, not with music skills, but with the day-to-day teaching and management of a band program. "Tips" and "Key Points" enable a quick review of material covered.
202 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2012
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April 8, 2013
This is a clearly written and highly topical guide for music educators and band leaders in the elementary and early high-school environment. Although I am not a teacher myself, my brother is music educator in private lessons, and I did pass this on to my nieces high-school band teacher, as my niece is a really talented young musician playing at least 3 instruments with great skill and highly involved with both her school band and the jazz band program.
Between the three of us reading this material, we all agreed it had some really good information for the "new" band teacher, and had some quite humorous notes about how to handle some very specific situations as well as general education guides. My favorite part was the questions and answers regarding specific challenges, such as (paraphrasing here)"What do you do with the student who wants to play the drums because he/she thinks it is cool?". Quite funny, and I remember from my own Grade 7 music class that this situation was very challenging for my teacher to sort out.
This book covers a wide range of subjects, from organization before the year starts, instrument assignments, classroom management, concerts, and more. Really a good starting point for a teacher new to a Band Director position, and even useful for those needing a little refresher or some new strategies to make the year successful.
Definitely worth a read if this is your area of teaching specialty, or if you are just curious about starting a band program and wondering how you might go about organizing one. This is not an advanced guide, it is really geared towards beginners or those looking to refresh and learn better management techniques, but it has many valuable tips that can be applied in almost any teaching situation.
**Copy of this book was received through Goodreads First Reads. Although this was a review copy, the opinions expressed are my own, and are in no way influenced by the author, publisher, or Goodreads.**
Between the three of us reading this material, we all agreed it had some really good information for the "new" band teacher, and had some quite humorous notes about how to handle some very specific situations as well as general education guides. My favorite part was the questions and answers regarding specific challenges, such as (paraphrasing here)"What do you do with the student who wants to play the drums because he/she thinks it is cool?". Quite funny, and I remember from my own Grade 7 music class that this situation was very challenging for my teacher to sort out.
This book covers a wide range of subjects, from organization before the year starts, instrument assignments, classroom management, concerts, and more. Really a good starting point for a teacher new to a Band Director position, and even useful for those needing a little refresher or some new strategies to make the year successful.
Definitely worth a read if this is your area of teaching specialty, or if you are just curious about starting a band program and wondering how you might go about organizing one. This is not an advanced guide, it is really geared towards beginners or those looking to refresh and learn better management techniques, but it has many valuable tips that can be applied in almost any teaching situation.
**Copy of this book was received through Goodreads First Reads. Although this was a review copy, the opinions expressed are my own, and are in no way influenced by the author, publisher, or Goodreads.**
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