As my three-week-block is a mere week away, I’ve had some dilemmas to sort out in preparation for it. One of those dilemmas was what class I would pick up as my fourth and final class, so I would be essentially working as a full time teacher. As some may know, I am a music major in the arts ed. program, however I have not been teaching any sort of music class as of yet. Unfortunate, but I’ve been given wonderful opportunities with my co-op to get involved with equally exciting and engaging programs. Recently, I took it upon myself to join in on the festivities of coaching the “Improv team.” Would probably not have occurred if I wasn’t teaching drama. Everything works out in the end, I suppose.
But back to the point, I was hoping to get my hands a little dirty in the music program here at school. With the conflicts in scheduling with the fine arts in general at the school, however, I would have to drop teaching drama in order to start teaching a general music class. At this point, things are hectic enough that the whole scenario is pretty much a make-work project, in that I’d essentially be picking up TWO classes because I’d have to drop drama, pick up music, and then pick up something else because I had ridded myself of the drama class.
I know, it’s complicated. Call me if you want to hear me vent about it.
So instead of grabbing a music class, I have decided to teach media studies. This should be fairly interesting, I thought to myself. It’s a class of grade 11′s who are currently studying the effects of advertising on our culture. I will be bringing the education straight to them on music in our culture, as well as its contribution to social networking and the effects its had on the music business in general. I’m rather stoked, now that I’m typing about it.
Regardless, as I said, the inevitable approaches. I have exactly a week before my 3 week block starts and stuff gets real. This is the moment of my university career that I’ve been dreading and/or dreaming of for the last four years.
