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Mrs. Judd. She is a queen and we still talk almost 15 years later. I think I counted once and she taught 22ish music classes total.

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I think my most impactful teacher is my private lesson teacher that has helped me improve as a musician and as a person

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Achieve tenure! I'd like to begin working on a study between Youth Orchestras and El Sistema, with colleagues in Australia and England! (And finish grading MUED 352!!!). :)

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I feel like most classes in middle schools and high schools are too individual of an experience? Even when kids are doing group work they're only thinking about their own grades. I would like to teach them how to work together and listen to each other effectively.
My most impactful music teacher is my band director Jill Young. She is very focused on this aspect of teaching and works very hard in general.

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Goal: My goal as a future music educator is to inspire my students to strive to the best musicians and people they can be. I also hope to help inspire my students to discover something about themselves that they did not know before: whether it's related to music or not!
Most impactful teacher: When I had him as my teacher, he was very kind and cheerful, but also knew how to be stern and lead the band to accomplish the goals we set out to do.

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Hopefully to become a high school band director or a mechanical engineer.

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There are many individuals who have made an impact for different reasons. My most impactful teacher demonstrated 'play', empathy, joy and curiosity for teaching, and was everyone's cheerleader in the orchestra.

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My goal as a music educator is to support kids in experimenting and following their passions in music. I am a firm believer that Joy is the most important component of any music education, so I hope to help students find joy in whatever music they are most passionate about.

My most influential music education experience  was actually from one of the professors here at NIU. Professor Reggie Thomas (who is a phenomenal jazz pianist and teacher) was doing a clinical with a high school jazz band that was visiting, and he was working with them on things I have never heard of before. The one thing that sticks out of my memory is “the bass  The drums are playing the same rhythmic line, so they should balance out to each other, reinforcing each other, not overwhelming the other“. I was blown away at the sheer musicality that was coming off of him, and I am sure the band was too!

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my goal as a future music educator is to incorporate Thai music studies into the modern music classroom. also, big goal is to teach over seas and learn more about different cultures that I can teach my future students about.

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Become a high school choir director (also open to anything K-12) and create a positive space for students to interact with music, each other, and their community. Hopefully I can get a job in Texas. I lived there when I went to Elementary School when my Dad was stationed there and one of my sisters currently attends University of North Texas as a music education student studying percussion so it would be a nice change and I need to get away from this weather. lol.

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After graduating from NIU, I hope to teach in an elementary/middle school band classroom. I hope to attain my Kodaly certification and to incorporate multicultural pedagogy and social and emotional learning into my classroom. From there, I aspire to receive my master's in Music Education and a doctoral degree in Administration. I of course want to keep teaching, but I also want to bring change to school administration boards to best benefit the arts in that school district. When I'm old, I want to teach theory classes at the collegiate level

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Write about your goals as a future music educator.

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Write about your goals as a future music educator.

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Describe your most impactful music teacher.

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Describe your most impactful music teacher.