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Date Posted: 08:05:22 04/18/06 Tue
Author: Honoree Pouly
Subject: Re: Free time
In reply to: Cynthia Holcomb 's message, "Free time" on 11:59:16 02/18/05 Fri

I think that if this happens it show that the conductor does not care about the ensemble. I think it is very important that the whole time that the ensemble is together should be used effectively. It is the conductor’s responsibility to have already planned out their lesson to use the full allotted time. If there are smaller ensembles that need practice time they should find a time to get together outside of the time for the larger group. It is not fair to those not involved in the smaller ensemble. Sometimes only ten minutes can make a huge difference.

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[> Re: Free time -- Rita, 10:25:45 05/07/06 Sun [1]

I observed a lot of this during my block this year, and I hated every minute of it. There were days where it almost seemed like a deal... If they sang through thier pieces so many times and sang it right, then they would get this time free. And the reason why he deicded to do this was because they were general music classes and the kids didn't want to be there and he would get frustrated with them. While that makes sense in all, allowing them to have free time in place of it didn't. And then if you do let it happen to much, the kids expect it, something that my cooperative teacher found out quickly. And so did I. During the week of thier school musical, kids were coming down in the mornings to work with my co-op teacher in a practice room while I worked with the classroom on thier stuff. (My co-op teacher could see me at all times and hear everything going on so it wasn't a problem) but it was really hard for me to get the students to work because all they wanted was free time and didn't see any need for improvment...

Okay long story short, there is always something that you can fill time with. If your 45 minute lesson, only turned into 20, have a back-up plan. A "rainy day" file... Something that you can resort to in a moment of need. Wither it be a game of some sort (name that tune, conductor, etc) or sight reading exercises, something can always be done so that the students aren't sitting there twiddiling thier thumbs so to speak.


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