Reflective Essay: A Career In Music Education

When surveying my next educator to speak with, I decided to actually pick a specific field in the education field to start with. I chose music education. After choosing a field I knew the perfect person to speak with, Mr. Ricardo James the owner of Wind Notes. Wind Notes is a music education business, where teachers provide music education to different communities. I was introduced to Mr. James by Mr. Kareem Nuri who I had spoken with in my previous interview session. Mr. James is a music educator and works with different school all over the Washington D.C area. To begin the interview, I first thanked Mr. James for taking the time out to meet with me, I also ensured him that this wasn’t going to be published or anything so he could feel free to be his normal self and give straight …show more content…
I really fell in love with it and the funny thing is I told myself, I’m never going teacher I am just going to play and play for the rest of my life because I felt like being in a classroom wasn’t for me and I always remember this saying when I was coming up. People who play, play and people who don’t Teach. Meaning if you pretty much couldn’t handle you craft then the best thing for you to do was teach because your success wouldn’t be anything outside of teaching. I really feel in love with teaching through that student. To me it was like a sponge effect, I saw how I gave everything in me to that student allowed that student to grow in so many different areas. I was influenced because I had black male teachers. Coming up I had a lot of the and in today’s society in the community that we are in we don’t have a lot anymore. So on top of giving back, I feel like could utilize my specific skill set and allow young teens to express them self-using my