Teachers are in many way composers. First with the curriculum we try to give it a hook. We attempt to make it something that the students won't forget easily and attempt to get it "stuck" in their heads. The other thing we do as teacher is to attempt to appeal to many audiences with the same information. We try to get kids from all walks of life the same emotion and memory and experience in order to learn. Another way we are like composers is that we have to use different techniques for different things. For example sometimes it is more appropriate to use a staccato, fortissimo approach. Other times it is better suited to be pianissimo. We crescendo and decrescendo when we feel it is appropriate, and when we need different emphasis.
As teachers we are conductors. Classroom management, the structure of a lesson and the teaching itself is subject to the interpretation of the teacher and how the "music" is directed to the "musician"
can look very different from conductor to conductor.
I think in other way that music is connected to the classroom, is that as a teacher there are so many emotions, struggles, triumphs and frustrations that can not be expressed in words. Unless you have experienced with the passion of a teacher, watching a child "get" something there is no real way to describe it. Music does that as well. There are moments in education, good and not as good, that are musical feel.
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