Presentation by Dr Christopher J Smith to Texas Tech University class "Introduction to Music Teaching," 3.9.11.

1. Dr Christopher J Smith Associate Professor & Chair of Musicology; Director of the Vernacular Music Center & the TTU Celtic Ensemble

2. gatha: a set of practices gathaexercise

3. Who do you want to be as a teacher?

4. What life do you want to live?

5. How do we lead a life: in which teaching, research, and service; in which body and mind; in which work and play; in which solitude, friends, colleagues, and family, all occupy a healthy, integrated, constructive, fully-realized continuum? In which we make positive impact in the world?

6. Integrate: action and contemplation, effort and intuition, listening and speaking, teaching and learning.

7. Recognize the value in creating constructive mental, psychological and even spiritual spaces.

8. Emphasize processes over results.

9. Transmit skills over data.

10. Develop focus & concentration: single-tasking

11. Trusting the old ways: demonstration-imitation-critique, memorization, teaching with the body

12. Model a way to be in the world: conduct, integrity, focus, mutual respect, boundaries, effort, precision

13. Balance work dynamics: leader/sideman/collaborator, Group/individual, the 5% rule

14. Accept responsibility: space, excellence, leadership, conduct, empathy, rigor

15. the gatha exercise

16. Thank you!

17. Dr Christopher J Smithhttp://ttuvmc.org