Riddle me this: have you ever had a conversation with another teacher and tried to explain what you really do in your music classroom day in or day out? Or have you ever tried to really use words to describe the types of experiences that you facilitate in your classroom? It’s not easy to put into words. It’s something that is almost exclusively indescribable, unless you’ve experienced it yourself.

There’s so much that goes into what we do as teacher musicians, and not a whole lot of it is easy. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. So in this week’s episode of The Anacrusic Podcast, we’re talking about the 4 hardest things about being a music teacher.