A good friend, a music teacher, and I were talking about the need for improvisation in the classroom. He describes public education administrators as rigid formula-following folks who advocate the use of processes often dreamed up in someplace other than the local classroom.
My friend mentioned a conversation he had with an administrator who asked him, "How often do you modify your cirriculum"? My friend's answer, "Every ten minutes". It wasn't the answer the administrator expected. The standard frequency is about four times during the school year.
But, the music teacher understands the fluidity of the learning/teaching moment and how he must continuously adjust his environment to make learning happen for his students.
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I love this comment! When I was teaching dance on a regular basis although I would have a overall concept of what I wanted to teach, I would never make formal teaching plans. I found that when I did do this, I wasn't as creative and the children and I didn't get as much out of the experience as we could. By being able to learn to modify things on the fly, you are always examining and taking things in from those in the room, and the environment. This doesn't have to be in a classroom - this can be in a board room!
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