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on (teaching) jazz appreciation

• 1 identify goals for the course
• 2 know students
• 3 present self (entertain)
• many need to complete credit (just want to finish course)
• should we divorce ourselves from racism?
• Do students do every day listening?
• Do students do exclusive listening?
• Jazz is selling commercials (ask them to watch/write title)

• listen high/low
• sympathy for artist
• get them to own 1 album
• teach skills (not facts)
• focus on listening

• 1964-80 gen x
• younger generation does not study same
• direction less
• expectant
• disrespectful
• insistent
• lazy
• first impressions (3-15 min)
• age
• enthusiasm
• knowlege (notes or not)
• interest
• likeability
• ease of course

how they learn

• 85 like to work with detailed inst (passing examples)
• 76 watch
• 24 read
• 0 do both
• (be clear about exceptions/rules)
• you are key
• (not your books/cds)

useful materials

• visual
• useful after course
• cd or audio
• over head presentation
• audio
• websites
• photo graphs

presence

• visual
• movement
• classroom setup
• tone/tempo

demos

• concerts
• inst demo?
• use faculty (brian) to get students
• incorporate firmiliar
• use elvis
• contrast w/jazz
• count to show bars
• march music (use sousa)
• contrast w/blues march

20s

• credit
• social dancing
• hickey
• blind date

guest

• humor (jazz anecdotes)
• dvd (clips)
• holes in lect (they fill in with www research)