Re: Re: Band Directors - how to get there?


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Posted by Kenneth Sloan on February 09, 2004 at 00:18:56:

In Reply to: Re: Band Directors - how to get there? posted by Josh Calkin on February 08, 2004 at 23:26:04:

"I personally have never met any band directors who did not have their bachelor's in music education."

BINGO. That's the sort of information I was after.

As for taking more than 4 years - that's not a big deal. Your characterization of your Music Ed degree as "a degree in Music with a minor in Education" is a good one - I can also imagine the other weighting - a degree in Education with a minor in Music. Both of these, in my view, are preferable to a monolithic "Music Ed" degree.

so - perhaps that frames a new issue: Should a high school band director be an educator with training in music, or a musician with training in education?


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