Amused

What do you do when an institution shows up at your institution? Dealing with insecurities when your predecessor comes for a visit.

We talk at length about what we've been taught and what we have taught in our classrooms regarding counting systems.

This week we brought on our friend and neighbor Patrick Neff from Rosemont HS to talk a little bit about his challenges in his first few years teaching and his perspective from the podium as a percussionist.   Recorded 4/8/2018

We talk about resources for implementing the National Core Arts Standards in your curriculum. Olin was off galavanting around with OSU's basketball team for some reason. Recorded March 18, 2018

We talk about our interest in small ensembles as middle school, high school & college band directors. Sus was off galavanting around the city with her choirs. Recorded 3/11/18

We wrangled Veronica's colleague from Holmes Junior High in Davis to come sit down with us while we pepper him with questions about Brass pedagogy.

To be clear: that's planning for 90 minutes of music during a 45 minute podcast.

Olin is designing a brass methods class for the spring quarter, and so he harasses John and Veronica with questions.   If you have input of things you wanted to see in your brass methods class that you didn't get and we didn't cover, send Olin your suggestions through our Facebook group or our website, Amusedcast.org

We share our student teaching experiences and our thoughts on how we might provide an impactful and helpful student teaching experience in our programs.

We talk about our working relationships with our administration, and what we're looking for in an administrator.

With January behind us we reflect on our local honor groups, their value and how to get the most out of them.

Sorry for the poor audio quality, Sus is on the phone, in a car, with no headphones. Not much we could do.   The question we tackle this week is how best to come back from break and how to you switch gears effectively and hit the ground running.

Hope you're enjoying your winter break! This episode we lay out goals for ourselves for the spring semester. This is our last episode for 2017, we'll be back for more episodes at the end of January.   Recorded 12/17/17 

Veronica encountered a patron at one of her concerts that was legitimately offended by her concert programming. We discuss what those pitfalls are, and what it means for us now that we know. Also: Cookie Dough.

This week we talk about dealing with loss in your school community, processing grief as teachers, students and as ensembles.

We talk about our own experiences in teaching and looking for jobs in an effort to decipher what makes a position desirable and what sort of applicants it attracts.

This week we talk about ways we've tried to help our students practice smarter, or more efficient, or let's be honest, at all.

We talk this week about many of the extra musical skills we work with our students on especially given the amount of time we have with each of our kids as secondary educators.

We talk about how we deal with relying on kids who are involved with every program on campus and on whom other coaches rely just as much as we do.

This week Olin brings on his colleague, Dr. Sandy Babb to discuss vocal health for both students and teachers.