I have two pieces of advice for my 23 year old, first year teacher self.
Number One: Fake it till you make it.
Regardless of what you see there are no teachers who know everything. You will learn from each day of teaching if you allow yourself. Great teachers use their experience and bag of tricks to find solutions to issues. There is no such thing as a perfect teacher and all teachers have rough days.
Number Two: Relationships are the MOST IMPORTANT thing!
Communicate with parents. Send home notes, send emails and make phone calls. It may not be your favorite things, but you need to create relationships with parents (even if they don't seem to care about music class.) Let parents know when their kids have a great day (not just the days that little Johnny made a bad choice.)
Parents will come up with their own picture about what is going on in your classroom unless you let them know exactly what is actually going on. Music class in 2015 is not the same as music class in 1980.
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