Able to experience music beyond my walls and not just listening to it.
Looking at it, understanding it,
listening to it and evaluating what they're hearing with their ears.
Because many of them are never going to get what reading it means.
The iconic things.
They just won't have enough time with me to figure that out.
Maybe they came late, maybe they just, it's not their thing.
But you know what? I can train their ear.
I can train their ear to listen and understand what's going on there.
So I want them to be good evaluators.
It's important to assess.
And you have to assess visually, but you have to be careful.
And we talked about this, that if you are assessing verbally,
that you don't just find out it's the same kids that are answering
and think that you're doing a good job of teaching.
Cause one kid can answer every one of your questions,
but that doesn't mean everybody in the class understands what's going on.
But I think it is important that you continually,
you know, have kids self-assess.
If you ask them to be honest about,
you know, how many, on a scale of one to five,
one being the best, five being the worst.
Of our lesson that we've just learned, how many feel like that,
you understand all of it perfectly, that would be a one.
And if you don't think you understand any of it, whether it would be a five,
show me what you think your learning level is.
And they'll be really honest. You know, some are like, or.
Becasue they then, that sort of tells you, I don't really get it.
Some of it I do.
So I think it's always important to keep doing that.
I also think that it's important, you know,
as far as learning wise goes that I continually reteach the lesson
with a different outcome and see how they go with that.
Not that I want to stay on the same things, but come back to it.
Find it another way to do it with instruments and.