1. Mentorship question: Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship? If you haven't found one yet, describe your experience so far in the search of a mentor.
-Initially I wanted to do either music OR teaching. I spent my whole summer thinking about what I really wanted to do because they're both things I really enjoy and I wasn't sure if I necessarily wanted to combine them. It wasn't until I actually came to Cal Poly in search for my mentor that I realized any of my music mentors would also be a teacher/professor. I emailed her and we got in contact just in time for my deadline. I was nervous of meeting with her because I wasn't sure what she would think of me as an apprentice. To my surprise, when we met she told me that I reminded her a lot of herself when she was in high school. She too knew in high school that she wanted to become a music teacher, and she was pleased to provide some type of guidance for me in my journey to becoming a music teacher.
2. Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?
-The most important article I have read so far has been A Place For Music In The Humanities. Although it is not specifically about music education and how to become a better teacher, it talks about the purpose and significance of music in society, more specifically in universities. It makes you think about how far you can take something as simple as music and what type of use you can make of it. This has been important because I don't want to live my life knowing I just taught for X amount of years...and that's it. I don't mean to make teaching seem like a small task because it isn't but personally I want to do more. It would have to be relevant to my time as a teacher to know specifically what that would be.
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