Dr. Lillian Green teaches all Freedom High School orchestra classes and AP music theory. She has been teaching for four years at Freedom High School. Green always strives to keep a positive and engaging classroom environment.
“I think one of the most important things is to keep perspective on where we’ve come from,” Green said. “Because everyone starts from not being able to play at all.”
Green has an undergraduate degree in music education. After graduating, she wanted to focus on getting better at music so she decided to obtain her doctorate degree in Viola. Obtaining her musical education made her really focused on the lifelong aspect of what you can do with music your entire life. She hopes to reflect that to all of her students.
“Sometimes I have a lot of trouble with people,” Green said.“If I give a lot of different options for what to do, sometimes there’s a deer in the headlights situation with a lot of students. And especially around here, there’s a really big culture of, ‘I must get the right answer and I must do the right thing in the perfect way.’”
She believes it’s important to go for it. She works hard to ensure that all of her students feel comfortable to experiment and try new things.
“Something I try very hard to do with almost any challenge is to break it down into things that are manageable,” Green said. “As opposed to, if you can break it down, whatever it is, into bite sized chunks, or like, let me just work on this one aspect. So if it’s music, you can just go, I’m just gonna do the rhythm and like, nothing else that’s more manageable.”
She uses this method anytime she feels overwhelmed and she usually advises this method to students.
