A contemporary text for all band directors by Scott Rush, with a foreword by Tim Lautzenheiser.
Some of the topics covered in the ten chapters include: classroom organization and management, working with parents and colleagues, the importance of the warm-up, rehearsal strategies, selecting high-quality literature, and student leadership. The appendices provide valuable outlines and reproducible forms such as medical releases and pitch tendency charts.
In Habits of a Successful Band Director, Scott Rush provides:
- A how-to book for young teachers
- A supplement for college methods classes
- A common sense approach to everyday problems band directors face
- Sequential models for instruction that are narrow in scope
- Solutions, in the form of information and probing questions, that allow assessment of a classroom situation
- Valuable information in a new format and references to other helpful publications
This is an accessible resource you’ll want to turn to again and again! This book, which quickly became a classic, is newly revised and reissued by GIA.