Instrumental Music ……Keyboards instead of Band?
I am teaching elementary band on a very limited basis at this time because we have such a high demand for students to be in the music technology class. We are able to teach more students at this age without the financial barrier of purchasing and repairing band instruments, as most of our students come from low-income homes. Also, many teachers will not allow students to be taken out of class two or more times per week for band, so the music technology class was used to increase the student participation in music and decrease the amount of time students were away from other academic classes. We have a separate general music teacher at our school. Most students are able to receive 80 minutes of music per week between general music and instrumental music.
