Shore Regional High School Website.

I explored many school's websites and found it interesting that many of the schools I was checking out didn't require teachers to have websites because they can be incredibly helpful tools. I eventually settled on a pretty good teacher website from Shore Regional High School. It is the website of a music teacher named Mr. Kevin Pryor. What originally struck me about this page was right from the start he sold the music program on the homepage. He describes the program as "award winning" and goes on to name the numerous programs that students can enroll in. This includes marching band, jazz band, concert band, music theory, and a few others. This fascinated me because in my high school there was band class and music class. If you didn't want to take one of those two than you didn't get to study music.
Each class has its own section on the page and he doesn't skimp on the amount of information that is provided for each. For example, the chorus section of the page includes the syllabus and the schedule of practices and performances, which is to be expected. He also provides a large amount of recordings that students can use to practice for performances. Under the Band tab he provides another large selection of recordings to practice with. Just by reading the assignments it can be told that Mr. Pryor is a demanding teacher who loves to challenge his students. The assignments that are listed are very in depth and, even as a musician who has played the saxophone for many years, they seem to be difficult.
I have already discussed the reasons that this site is helpful to the students but how is it helpful for the parents of those students? Well, in many places music is an elective. It takes time outside of school, extra funding, and a pretty large commitment if one is to be successful and get everything out of the program that he or she can. Having an instructor that puts this much time and thought into the website for his classes gives parents a confidence that their children aren't wasting their time in the program. Everything is laid out logically and the site is very easy to use if a parent ever needed to contact him or check up on the assignments of their children. It is set up in a way so that there is no room for confusion.
As a side-note, although I didn't notice this when I first began writing this post, Mr. Pryor actually graduated from Montclair State. Just pointing out a strange coincidence.

Shore Regional High School Website.