One percent better. (Dear Reader).Welcome to another year of membership in MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) . This issue of the American Music Teacher (AMT See vPro. ) magazine is the first one of the 127th year of our association. Some of you are new members to MTNA; most of you are continuing your membership. Regardless of whether this is your first AMT or your hundredth, we wish you a successful year of music teaching. Over the course of our 127 years, MTNA has become a strong network of 24,000 music teaching professionals in all fifty states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . Our members have willingly come together for over a century and a quarter to accomplish things in the profession that one person alone just cannot do. In fact, the music teaching landscape has been forever impacted by MTNA and its membership. This positive impact will continue as you succeed as a music teacher. And MTNA is ready, willing and able to be your partner in success. This year, as always, we will provide the very best resources and opportunities for your professional growth. Each issue of the AMT will contain articles focused on your needs as a studio teacher. The National Conference, March 15-19, 2003, in Salt Lake City, will feature the finest presenters, clinicians and artists available. Our myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. services like the professional insurance programs developed exclusively for MTNA members also provide you with resources not available anywhere else. As you begin a new year of teaching, I encourage you to renew your commitment to excellence. Recently, I heard someone say, "Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things." I like this new paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. , and I hope you will adopt it as your credo for the year. So, take a walk mentally through your teaching approaches. What one, three or ten areas can you identify where 1 percent better is possible? Adopt the mindset mind·set or mind-set n. 1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations. 2. An inclination or a habit. that "the best of everything is yet to be." The status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. is never acceptable. Make it 1 percent better! Gary L. Ingle Executive Director |
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