Personal Statement: A Career As A Music Education

Before even entering college, I have taught multiple students music weekly for free. It was a grueling experience as I also had to continuously study and learn new topics to plan ahead accordingly so that the students’ proficiency in music grow naturally so that their techniques would be engraved in their body and mind. Yet, even though it was an exhausting job, to this day, it is still one of the most invigorating experiences I have had as a high school student. This choice to teach has allowed me to continue teaching in different environments, and I now ultimately wish to a chance to teach in the JET program. Through my experience in teaching, teamwork, and music education I can bring an enjoyable school life for the Japanese students while sharing my experience as a foreigner that can pique interest for people of Japan.

Diversity is a beautiful thing; from religion to physical looks, the differences among people is astounding. The world would be such a monotonous place if everyone were the same. However, many tend to note that diversity in a classroom can sometimes be an issue- especially among the students. From my own experiences within a diverse class, I realize that the contrast between students is a blessing and a curse

Choosing this career has been anything but a straight path. Over the past two years when I really focused on deciding what I want to do,

As I got older I started to come to the realization that plans often do not go exactly as contrived. Sometimes, the plans I have made will alter in some way, or drop all together, resulting in an enormous amount of stress. This was the case when I decided to change my choice in career my senior year of high school. Most of my life I had been working toward the goal of being a dance teacher, but while watching a medical drama about kids with cancer, I soon realized my desire to be a pediatric oncology nurse was stronger than my love for dance. With that decision, all of my plans had entirely changed.

Music has been a passion of mine for many years. The sonic power of frequency captivates me entirely along with the depth of theory that goes behind it all. Nothing is as integrated with art, human expression, and science as music is. You have sound and frequency as itself, and then the physical, tangible applications that allows us humans to harness and mold the sound into whatever we want. I have been playing music since I was young, and as time passed I grew more curious about the way things around me worked. I began to wonder how the tools of the art work. This curiosity has driven myself to knowing the ins and outs of the physical realm within the music world. I want to know how the amplifiers that I use on a day to day basis function.

My teachers once said to me “There are no wrong notes but how you play them, the feelings you put in and how you play them in time. It’s all about your timing.” This advice has stayed with me the most and looking back over the last year I can see that timing is everything not just in music.

The career I wish to succeed at is music education. The fascination and passion had started when I was seven years old. My mom who was a saxophone player had started this passion when she first handed me her old saxophone. Even though I wasn’t very good at first I still couldn’t put it down. I practiced a lot to get better at playing that old saxophone. Eventually band for fifth graders had started and I had wanted to learn more about the instrument I barely knew about. I found out how to take care and set my amateur. Then we learned more of the basics like how not to sound like a goose. Finally, I’m here in high school I’m taking music theory to further my passion and prepare myself for college.

I’m interested in being an arts counselor because I enjoy doing art in my free time. I had done this last summer and really enjoyed it. I found it so much fun to help the children get in touch with their creative sides. I really enjoy watercolor, drawing and i dabble with animation. I have previously taken classes at the art center such as a watercolor, acting, sewing, and comic book designing classes. I take art at school where we had done a variety of different projects such as drawing and shading an inanimate object. Recently I have taken an animation workshop at North Carolina State.

I am currently studying Music at Central Michigan University because I came to college with the intent of becoming a music director or teacher. I am now planning on completing my minor in music and am considering a major in communication disorders while continuing my study in German. I am very interested in language and how it works and I want to help people in my future career. I am currently discovering what sorts of careers I can have with a major in communication disorders but I am very interested in becoming a speech therapist. Learning German has also been a big part of my life. I am currently enrolled in the highest German Language class here at CMU and curious to see where that could take me with my career.

There are a lot of different jobs to take in this entertainment industry, but there is only one thing that I desire to do, music producing. One thing that combines a passion for music and song writing is a music producer. As many things as I love doing, singing and writing music is by far my favorite thing to do. Being a music producer would help me to express my emotions in a positive way. I would be able to show my creativity in a form that I know and definitely love.

Since I was a kid, I have been surrounded by music and have therefore always had an interest in it. I have never been one of those people who have their hearts set on a particular career, but I think a music education career would be able to accommodate most of my personal criteria. The starting wage for a music educator depends on the level of music being taught. At a high school level, the average pay is $56,310 while a postsecondary level is around $70,790 a year (United States). The schedule of my job is very important to me, and I have always wanted a career with my summers free so I can continue to commercial fish in Alaska. I have grown up fishing commercially my whole life, and I know that is something I want to continue doing. A school in a town located close to the mountains would be ideal. Benefits such as retirement vary from state to state and would therefore play a factor in where I would want to be located. Job security would depend on how well I performed as a teacher, and because I have a passion for music, I do not think it would be a problem.

I am a 15 year old sophomore and have been going to the Cedarburg schools since kindergarten. I have one brother, Aaron, who is going to be 13 on October 23rd and is in 7th grade at Webster. When I was younger I had a fear of dogs, but now I have a cockapoo bichon dog named Bailey who is going to turn five in October as well. While I have gone to Cedarburg schools for all 11 years, I was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, but moved to Cedarburg when I was three years old.

I am a recording artist, songwriter, composer and singer with an extensive history in the music business. I am also a proficient voice teacher, with ten years’ experience teaching on the college level. In my work as a Singer/Songwriter, I have produced other singers, and personally performed at hundreds of gigs. I recorded, arranged and produced two full length CD’s at my home studio, which included a Mellotron. Additionally, I helped young singers create their first demos. My original training in music started as a classical singer in San Francisco. I performed for two years with the Marin Opera Company. After many years of work, my performances today might encompass

Few would argue against the idea that we educate ourselves and our society so that we have adequate means with which to understand and interact with elements of the world around us. Subjects such as mathematics, language, history, and the hard sciences are granted immediate and unquestioned legitimacy in our schools, and with good reason. We encounter each of these elements of our lives on a daily basis. We need to have an understanding of these disciplines in order to interact with them, otherwise they are meaningless to us. I submit that the same can be said for the fundamental concepts of music. Music is something that we encounter in our society every day. It surrounds us. Indeed

Diversity in classrooms can open student’s minds to all the world has to offer. At times diversity and understanding of culture, deviant experiences and perspectives can be difficult to fulfill, but with appropriate strategies and resources, it can lead students gaining a high level of respect for those unlike them, preferably than a judgmental and prejudiced view.