An outstanding teacher has a thorough and rigid understanding of their discipline and practices teaching from a desire to serve unconditionally.
An outstanding teacher is devoted to continual refinement of their own skills, abilities, and aesthetic.
An outstanding teacher is serious, fair, honest, and consistent, with a commitment of joy to guide pupils to a relationship with that which is True, Good, and Beautiful.
An outstanding teacher shares a “living educational experience” (as opposed to inert information) with the pupil so as to guide, encourage, and clarify the processes of self education.
The pupil’s fundamental experience must be rooted in a pure discipline that fosters and emphasizes an autonomy exercised through a robust relationship within a Living Heritage, which in turn refines and informs observation, organization, inference, skill, and action.
An outstanding teacher affords the pupil to grow in awareness of their own developing thoughts, curiosities, understandings, and skills, through the making of artifacts within a clearly defined heritage in cooperation to the Good Service of their many Life Relationships.
An outstanding teacher is humble and articulate enough to share in the many processes of learning.
I aim to address the wide range of skills and abilities with gratitude, and patience. This mighty challenge of serving every single pupil unconditionally with clear expectations is the creative joyful work and fulfillment of teaching. To celebrate personal achievement while being adherent to the discipline of excellence requires perseverance, fortitude, courage, understanding, and grace. It is imperative for the teacher to clearly lead and properly coordinate continual communication between pupil, peers, parents, and faculty alike.
My Oath…
Declares a devotion of gratitude with patient attention:
to observe, learn of, and celebrate every participants’ individual skills, talents, abilities and unique voice in their creative expression though the art form, music;
to help participants recognize that the beauty within the creative act is experienced through their own disciplined relationship with the heritage and tradition of the art form and is available for a lifetime of joy, perseverance, work, manifestation, and development;
to be sensitive, as this relationship changes over time as the student changes and grows over time;
to model that fulfillment is in the dedicated work of making something worthwhile and beautiful for the benefit of others.