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Describe your positionality AND how it influences your teaching.

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Describe your positionality AND how it influences your teaching.

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Creative - my classes can be spontaneous and we improvise objectives as they come up in rehearsals.

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Creative - my classes can be spontaneous and we improvise objectives as they come up in rehearsals.

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Beginner teacher - trying a lot of different things and seeing what sticks. Willing to make mistakes and learn from them.

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Beginner teacher - trying a lot of different things and seeing what sticks. Willing to make mistakes and learn from them.

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my positionality as a classically trained musician allows me to see both worlds: mine and the students

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my positionality as a classically trained musician allows me to see both worlds: mine and the students

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My positionality forces me to recognize not only what I know, but what I DON'T know, and influences my teaching to be responsive and aware of what my students bring to the table just by being themselves.

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my positionality as someone who grew up in the suburbs with a dad who loved classic rock, I tend to lean towards rock-heavy programming and need to put extra effort into making sure that I include the kinds of music my students prefer.

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my positionality as someone who grew up in the suburbs with a dad who loved classic rock, I tend to lean towards rock-heavy programming and need to put extra effort into making sure that I include the kinds of music my students prefer.

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Being Asian, I can relate very well to the hate crimes occurring in and outside of NYC and be able to have a health conversation in the classroom 

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Being Asian, I can relate very well to the hate crimes occurring in and outside of NYC and be able to have a health conversation in the classroom 

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As a professional performer I sometimes forget that I am not teaching in a music conservatory.

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As a professional performer I sometimes forget that I am not teaching in a music conservatory.

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My positionally is a classical trained singer, a white female educator, and a private school student growing up. This influences my teaching in many ways including making sure I get to know my students-what they like, what their families are like, what cultural background they come from and what that means to them. As well as, navigate how a public school teaching environment may affect a student's learning music differently than how I grew up.

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My music education has been enriched with support and care for mental health and well-being, and I recognize that a lot of my students haven't had that. So I constantly put care and love first into my teaching along with lessons that are collaborative and responsive to who my students are.

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I grew up in a household where music was considered an essential part of life so I try to bring that passion to my students

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I grew up in a household where music was considered an essential part of life so I try to bring that passion to my students

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I am a new and young (26) teacher from Long Island. I taught last year in inner-city Detroit and this year I am teaching in Harlem. I am white, cisgender, straight, able-bodied, and have been fortunate enough to complete 2 masters degrees. I consider myself a band and music theory specialist. I think it's really important to remember what gave us our positionality in the first place. Mine is very different from my students' and I try to meet them where they are and celebrate and learn about their positionalities in the classroom.

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As a drummer, I use percussion grooves to build community and make all our music sound even better (in my humble opinion).

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As a drummer, I use percussion grooves to build community and make all our music sound even better (in my humble opinion).

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My positionality as someone growing up listening and playing jazz really taught me how to listen. Rather than hearing just your own voice, it is just as important to hear the voice of a/your community.

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The music I was exposed to growing up and while getting my degree affects how I connect to music now

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The music I was exposed to growing up and while getting my degree affects how I connect to music now

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Growing up, I just was not exposed to that much hip hop, R&B, or rap compared to the amount of jazz, blues, classical, musical theater, and opera music that was in my music curricula in grade school or higher education. When it comes to covering songs of those genres, I feel pretty out of my depth and unable to judge if the examples I've found are "good" examples for a concept I'm teaching. My professors didn't prioritize exposing us to those genres in undergrad and I feel like there's a massive blindspot in my radar as an educator. Similarly, a lot of music curricula are Eurocentric, and examples of music from other parts of the world tend to be taught in a silo where one song has to do all of the heavy lifting of representing every culture on a given continent. I've been trying to remedy these blindspots in grad school and on my own time

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I grew up in schools with little or no music programs. I had to look for music opportunities outside of school to get my training. So as an elementary music teacher, I think it is so crucial to expose my students with lots of music making skills and experiences. 

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I grew up in schools with little or no music programs. I had to look for music opportunities outside of school to get my training. So as an elementary music teacher, I think it is so crucial to expose my students with lots of music making skills and experiences. 

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I couldn't study music when I was young because of finances. So I am mostly self-taught as far as musicianship. I struggled during my music major and had to work very hard.

My graduate school was seriously into teaching music from the students' backgrounds, while not ignoring the "mainstream."

My background as a person of the 1960s and 1970s helps me feel a sense of optimism-that anything is possible.