Habits of Success

Intended for both novice and experienced band directors, this companion to Scott Rush’s bestselling book Habits of a Successful Band Director is designed to:

- Present effective teaching principles with more depth and understanding
- Challenge readers to look deep within themselves to find solutions that will lead to more effective teaching
- Pose questions and suggest activities to put these solutions into action and cause readers to set goals through self-discovery
- Establish the classroom as a true laboratory for making music
- Provide a study guide for college methods classes using Habits of a Successful Band Director

This user-friendly volume is chock-full of ideas for solving common technical problems and, more importantly, creates a framework for band directors to re- evaluate and improve every aspect of the job. This book is designed to be an invaluable companion for the entire breadth of a band director’s career.

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In Habits of a Successful Band Director, Scott Rush provides:
- A how-to book for young teachers
- A supplement for college methods classes
- A common sense approach to everyday problems band directors face
- Sequential models for instruction that are narrow in scope
- Solutions, in the form of information and probing questions, that allow assessment of a classroom situation
- Valuable information in a new format and references to other helpful publications
- A contemporary text for all band directors

Some of the topics covered in the ten chapters include: classroom organization and management, working with parents and colleagues, the importance of the warm-up, rehearsal strategies, selecting high-quality literature, and student leadership.

The appendices provide valuable outlines and reproducible forms such as medical releases and pitch tendency charts.

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