Tuesday, September 6, 2011

mr hollands opus

Reading review- Mr Hollands opus In this article the author appears to be a music teacher somewhere in the elementary level. They also appear to have experience in ranged fields of education due to the description of standardized testing from other areas of education. The author focuses on music education and the standard assumptions we make about music teachers. The assumptions include either inspirational music teachers who start a lifelong journey of music or teachers who seem distant and leave as soon as the bell rings. This article is meant to continue a team bound theme in education. Teachers often want to go their own way or think that they can do it better or different than classic methods have been performed. Doing things differently however can lead to different conclusions, not always favorable and doing things the same way gives teachers back-up. The author is clearly portraying there are some areas of the school system that are not appealing to music teachers such as the classic handwritten bubble tests for music class, but she continues to use them because it's all part of a bigger plan past her one music class.

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