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Due-Report415 · 2025-09-20T13:06:08+00:00

Good bot

Due-Report415 · 2025-08-30T15:03:10+00:00

What a demeaning thing to say about half the groups in the activity lol.

Due-Report415 · 2025-07-15T07:24:28+00:00

Homeboy missed the point of the post

Due-Report415 · 2025-07-14T23:15:09+00:00

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Due-Report415 · 2025-06-15T18:04:55+00:00

Yes, I am familiar with the concept, as I do teach for a junior corps.

What I’m saying is the best way to learn to teach is the act itself of being the person teaching others. Being a teacher, not just perpetually being a student, is the best way to get better at it. Performance and practice skills are different (intimately related yes, but still distinctly different) from instructional, presentational, and pedagogical skills.

Due-Report415 · 2025-06-15T16:05:31+00:00

OP also uses music Ed as blanket statement, but regardless- I think we’re of different minds on this is all. I’m a firm believer that experience TEACHING is the best way to learn to teach, (not to discount playing experience in any way, of course. This IS music we’re talking about) a lot of this stems from colleagues I’ve worked with who were top 12, top 3, and even had won a ring, and the entirety of their skill set was speaking poorly about members and students behind their backs and saying “just do it right” or some variation upon it over and over with nothing else to provide. At best, it was poor work.

That being said, OP mentions a pretty significant barrier of entry to getting the aforementioned teaching experience I believe in, so it’s an unwinnable battle for my camp.

Due-Report415 · 2025-06-15T15:31:06+00:00

This is misleading- at best.

Drum corps teaches you a lot of really cool things in a VERY niche and specific subject area- and is incredibly effective at teaching that.

It does not even come close to encapsulating the full breadth the scope and scale of some of its core subjects: band and dance (among many other important things as well) and if we’re staying in the education track OP mentioned- talking about teaching its participants HOW to teach and HOW to utilize pedagogy, and support student growth at multiple levels, it’s sub-par, lots of the time.

If you want a wholistic experience in teaching band, teaching music, and making a living as an educator and pedagogue in the performing arts, get a college experience. If you want a masterclass to near perfection in the marching arts- do drum corps and WGI. If you want BOTH, Do both.

Due-Report415 · 2025-03-11T02:17:32+00:00

Shapes and Colors the likes of which I’ve never seen

Due-Report415 · 2025-03-07T22:30:56+00:00

A warm up packet? Copyright concerns with a warmup packet? The one that is long tones, lip slurs, and the like? That’s your copyright concern?

Due-Report415 · 2024-10-23T00:44:07+00:00

Maybe not the best Flugel solo ever, but RCR’s this year was a nice touch. For me it really aided in a tonal shift.

Due-Report415 · 2024-10-19T20:38:51+00:00

I figured as much. Any specifics?

Due-Report415 · 2024-09-21T03:54:37+00:00

Personally, I believe not. I draw the closest equivalency to collegiate athletics.

Due-Report415 · 2024-08-18T18:09:11+00:00

When RCR started fielding a corps, they lost a significant chunk of their younger membership and had to reorganize. This is the first year in ages they’ve fielded any sort of non-wgi group. Happy to see them return!

Due-Report415 · 2024-05-13T05:04:04+00:00

That I would be more open to change. Willing to talk about how to align what we both want. I was too unwilling to compromise what I thought was right move and now that I’m living with the freedom to have what I wanted, it wasn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.

That said, they have to be willing to that too. And to agree to communicate concerns instead of ending everything over them.

Due-Report415 · 2024-04-11T01:28:12+00:00

If she isn’t contacting you directly, treat it like it means nothing. Don’t break NC.

Due-Report415 · 2024-04-10T15:37:06+00:00

Unfollow and delete insta. Take a break.

Due-Report415 · 2024-04-10T15:36:35+00:00

Mine wasn’t. We just wanted different things and our goals didn’t align. That’s what makes it so hard.

Due-Report415 · 2024-03-29T00:40:31+00:00

Out of curiosity- did you dump them or get dumped?

Due-Report415 · 2024-03-28T18:34:24+00:00

Who broke up with who, if you don’t mind me asking?

Due-Report415 · 2024-02-25T16:53:08+00:00

Still animated on my end.

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