Identity, Positionality, and Musical Creativity Through the Lens of the NYC Music Education Anchor Values - Room 8 by Elizabeth Guglielmo https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg Describe your positionality AND how it influences your teaching. en-us 2022-01-20 21:01:43 UTC 2022-01-31 16:18:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Describe your positionality AND how it influences your teaching. eguglielmo https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2003980034 2022-01-20 23:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2003980034 https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021639767 White, cis male

Western classical tradition

Attended suburban schools

Grew up listening to 90’s music

Positionality really helps to remind us of our hidden biases.  We instinctively can assume everyone grew up/was educated in the same ways we were.  Like I grew up taking my instrument home to practice- but a lot of my students live in small apts with multiple families/people in a room- what worked for me doesn’t work for them  

]]> 2022-01-31 16:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021639767 https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021641839 I think positionality is a complex idea, that you have many experiences and come from a particular combination of influences that predisposes you to think about the world, to hear and see the world a certain way. It also has a negative context, as if you're biased to only see and hear things a certain way. While I think that people do fall into certain patterns and routines and ideologies of interacting with the world, I also think that you can try to stay open-minded. I think, as a teacher, you have to stay as open-minded as possible, because if you don't, it doesn't work. I'm not sure if this addresses the question, but those are my thoughts.
Tom Greenland]]> 2022-01-31 16:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021641839 Positionality https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021643903 As a white male, growing up in Orange County, I had much to learn about the way other people think. My positionality led me to think everyone had the same worldview. I now make it a point to understand everyone's background and to never assume students have the same viewpoint as myself or their peers.]]> 2022-01-31 16:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021643903 My positionality https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021645383 My positionality as an oldest sibling means that I create unrealistic expectations and pressures on students that may have come from feeling the need to be responsible and dutiful when I was younger. ]]> 2022-01-31 16:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021645383 https://padlet.com/eguglielmo/zfc6d74rtiecogmg/wish/2021648190 I am a white, jewish, cis female, who grew up in Long Island, daughter of a teacher and ems captain. We bring our own bias and personal experiences into the school, which is something that we all deal with. It can be hard to have certain expectations of our students, to see what they could do, but also need to understand that there are many different limitations that our students have.

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