This session will feature the biggest mistakes of my teaching career as I started out teaching. This clinic will present my takeaways from them and will hopefully provide guidance for young teachers and assistance so that they do not make the same mistakes I did! I will humbly share the top ten lessons I wish I had known before I started teaching and have painfully had to learn over the years.
Joshua Taylor
- Biographical Information
Joshua
Taylor is the orchestra director at Timberwood Middle School in Humble ISD, which is located in the Houston, TX area. Mr. Taylor graduated from Lee
University in Cleveland, TN in 2010 with a Bachelors of Music Education and
received his Masters in Educational Leadership from Lamar University in
Beaumont, TX in 2021. He taught in South Dakota and Tennessee prior to
moving to Texas, where he has taught orchestra in Humble ISD for the last 13
years. His orchestras consistently receive superior ratings at UIL Concert
& Sight Reading Evaluations. He regularly clinics and judges in the Houston
area and around the state of Texas and is active in the Texas Music Educators
Association, having served as the Region 33 Orchestra Division Chair for eight
years and currently serving as the TMEA Region 33 President. He has presented
sessions at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio in
2023 and 2025. Mr. Taylor is excited to help other teachers, especially new
teachers. His presentations center on classroom management and the
struggles new teachers face. He shares from his own mistakes and hard-learned lessons in the hope that others will not make the same mistakes. When
not teaching he can be found with his two children, Tucker and Maisie, both of
whom are the absolute best dogs.