I get e-mails from The National Association for Music Education quite a bit, and as a future teacher, I found this article interesting. It was basically on how to get all the information you can before actually stepping into a classroom. While some of the ideas, after reading them, seemed to be somewhat common sense, it was a nice reminder about how to help yourself become a great teacher. Some of the ideas were to:
-Give lessons in your area of expertise
-Buy lunch for local music teachers and just talk about the field
-Offer to be a clinician at local schools
-Try to observe teachers of varying age-groups
While, again, some of the ideas seem like they should be obvious things to do, sometimes it is easier to say you are busy with school, rather than getting out into the field, where you actually get to work with students.
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