Types of Workshops We Offer for High School Marching Bands
Our goal is always to tailor our workshops to your specific needs. We are unlike many workshops providers in seven significant ways:
- We will ask your students to complete a questionnaire prior to the workshop.
- We will then talk to the head director in order how to develop the best focus for your workshop.
- We come to your school and work with just your band during the workshop.
- We focus on the specific areas of improvement for your student leader team and staff.
- We give additional training to your drum majors and band president, giving them opportunities to lead their peers.
- We teach proven techniques that increase motivation and performance.
- As a result, your group will develop a better working relationship between leaders, staff and band members.
Listed below are the general outlines for the different kinds workshops we offer.
One-Day Pre-Leader Selection Workshop
The one-day Pre-Leader Selection Workshop will help identify future student leaders.
These one-day workshops are generally conducted in January, February, March or April. This workshop can involve as many as 50 students, depending on the size of your program.
This workshop will help you determine which potential leaders will become your student leaders for the upcoming year. There are many opportunities in this one day workshop for you to see how your students participate, communicate their ideas, demonstrate insight, follow directions, adapt under pressure, are service-oriented and give their best effort.
The workshop will consist of some lecture, one-on-one activities, as well as team-building and goal-setting activities for the entire group.
Added Benefits
Your drum major and band president candidates will have an opportunity to lead the group in an activity to see how they handle the pressure and how their peers respond to them.
Towards the end of the workshop, your students will be asked to come up with collective goals that will help them improve personally and propel your organization to the next level.
Following the workshop you get a better indication of which students best use the training to become your most consistent and most service oriented leaders during your concert season.
Ultimately, participants will build a greater sense of community in your program resulting in increased momentum, focus and enthusiasm for your concert and upcoming marching band seasons.
Two-Day Team-building and Leadership Workshop
The two-day workshop is designed to properly train your chosen student leaders to
- develop their own strengths and the strengths of their fellow leaders
- build a cohesive "team attitude" throughout the student leader team and band
- increase problem-solving ability under time duress
- effectively communicate with staff, fellow student leaders and students
- understand why people misbehave and implement positive and respectful consequences
This is the cornerstone workshop that gives your student leader team the most comprehensive training. This two-day workshop will help create a cohesive team of leaders who more fully understand their roles as leaders and how to best serve their band. You will also know at the end of this workshop how to better use your leaders within your system.
An added benefit will be that your drum majors, band president and possibly band vice president will be running the workshop for upwards of 2 hours. They will receive additional training to help with this responsibility throughout the workshop.
You will see how your drum majors, band president and vice-president learn to handle pressure and how their peers respond.
Three-Day Team-Building and Leadership Workshop
The goal of the three-day workshop expands on the two-day workshop, to give your student leader team more in-depth training. Your leadership team will better understand themselves and their fellow leaders and will learn specific skills in working with their peers. In addition, there is an option to include in the first day of training those students who just missed being chosen leaders. This is especially helpful if those students are seniors or underclassmen who show leadership potential. So, the choice is either to have more in-depth training for your leaders for three days or to incorporate more students in the process so that all the students present will develop increased comfort in working together.
One-Day Follow-up Sessions
One-day follow-up sessions will incorporate the entire band, ultimately generating a tighter bond and more collective focus throughout your program.
There are 3 phases to this day. The first phase is an accountability and fine-tuning session with your chosen student leaders. The second phase is a training session with the students who were not chosen student leaders. The third phase involves incorporating the whole band in this process. This workshop has been very successful in further unifying the student leader teams with their bands.
Three-Hours Tune-up Sessions
Three-hour tune-up sessions are designed to help student leaders reinforce the material learned in the 2-day workshop. These sessions offer additional training, fine tuning and the opportunity for your leaders to the opportunity to ask questions as needed.
Booster Parent Workshops
Booster parent workshops are designed to help parents become more knowledgeable about the band activity, and increase their ability to work together as a cohesive team. These workshops are usually are five hours in duration. They are geared to inform the parents how their student leaders are being trained, help them garner a better understanding of your total responsibilities as their band director, and help them evolve as a more cohesive booster parent team.
Teacher In-Service Workshops
Teacher in-services are also available. Topics will be determined based on your need. These workshops can be a half day to two days in duration.
Junior High Team-Building and Leadership Workshops
Leadership workshops for junior high programs will introduce students to leadership principles. This workshop will emphasize the importance of service, help them build their confidence and teach them to work together better. Ultimately, they will be better prepared to excel at your high school. These workshops are usually one day in duration. Please let me know of any junior high directors who you believe may be interested in these workshops.
Please understand that workshops will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis and will be officially reserved when you fax a signed agreement.
Contact us for more information about our team-building workshops for bands.
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