Friday, December 9, 2011

Notes from my Mid-Term Student Evaluations

Mid-Term evaluation notes

Music History
Exciting Spring Concerts -
Test Review Sheets
More listening exercises in class
Relation to modern music (they can find!)

Chamber Choir
Homeland
Practice like we perform
Mark Lowe - Baritone
Work on Breating
A clear performance calendar
Variety in class - change the order
    (sectionals/ different warmups/ sightreading/ music games/ theory
Work in sectionals more often
More pop music
Sing more music

Big Red Chorus
Sing more songs - even if we don’t perform them
Sing at assembly more often (febuary)
Work in sectionals more to nail the notes before moving through the whole song
Pop Songs (forget you, bohemian rapsody, california dreaming)
    Classic sing along songs
More Discipline - give more demerits
Change/check voice parts
Keep warmups breif and make sure that they have a direct connection to the music
Explain scales better
Ask for student’s opion before hand
Watch John Hazen , owen powell-- he is a problem

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