A warning on moving from complex goals to discrete and disconnected tasks
Grant Wiggins (of Wiggins & McTighe’s Understanding by Design) recently highlighted the issue of breaking things into little bits in education. new post on the error of breaking complex goals into...
View ArticleToward Convergence: Adapting Music Education to Contemporary Society and...
Tobias, E. S. (2013). Toward convergence: Adapting music education to contemporary society and participatory culture. Music Educators Journal, 99(4), 29–36. doi:10.1177/0027432113483318 The digital...
View ArticleDeveloping the debate for “Assessment on our own Terms” and contributing to...
The article Assessment on Our Own Terms by Samuel Hope and Mark Wait is an important read for music educators and anyone who deals with arts education, assessment, or policy connected to arts...
View ArticlePhilosophical thinking & Music Education: International Symposium on the...
If you did not attend the International Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) IX you can read Roger Mantie’s reflections on the conference. Mantie speaks about the importance of...
View ArticleNational Core Arts Standards Public Review: Music and Media Arts for your...
The Core Arts Standards are now available for public review. A video orientation helps in providing some background information but you will probably want to take a look at the conceptual framework of...
View ArticleJournalism and the perpetuation of the “declining Music Education” trope
A recent article by Zachary Woolfe in the New York Times, Tested Out Upstate: Classical’s Future: Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble, is not about music education but perpetuates...
View ArticleFrom STEM to STEAM!
In a particularly savvy move the National Association for Music Education is organizing a major effort to broaden the narrow and exclusionary (science, technology, engineering, and Math (STEM)...
View ArticleCBDNA Report on Preparing the 21st Century Artist–Teacher
The College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) report on Preparing the 21st Century Artist-‐Teacher is now available. The report is the result of two panel presentations at the 2014 Ithaca...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Should knowing how to read music be an essential requirement for children...
The National Association for Music Education recently shared the following twitter message (tweet) via its twitter account: Should knowing how to read music be an essential requirement for children...
View ArticleThe ASU Music Education Department
A few years ago the ASU Music Education Department revised our curriculum to address the contemporary state of music education and help students adapt for a rapidly changing society. Along with...
View ArticleChristmas concerts on Chanukah and considering issues of cultural...
Around this time of year, the Music Teachers Facebook Group is full of posts about Christmas concerts, religion and music education, sacred music in schools, and associated issues. The majority of the...
View ArticleWayne Shorter’s and Herbie Hancock’s open letter to artists
Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock recently wrote an open letter to artists that is definitely worth a read and would be worth sharing with students. It is particularly appropriate for students in that...
View ArticleHow do you program music for ensembles?
How do you program for ensembles? Jordan Randall Smith posted the following message on Twitter on 12/26/19 (along with some great connected questions): Many conversations about programming in music...
View Article
