Musician and teacher: an orientation to music education

1: Musician's Life In Teaching

Life's calling

Tales of five musicians

Makeup of a music teacher

All things considered

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2: Great Minds On Music In Education

Justifying music

Music that means something

Ancient minds on music

Later minds on music

Musicians' minds on music

Minding music education

Precious presence of music in life

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3: Music Learning By Ear And By Eye

Transmitting the aural art

Formal, nonformal, and natural learning

Medieval Europe: inside the Scholae Cantorum

Japan: time-honored music learning

West Africa: family and nonformal learning

Ireland: heritage music at home in competition

First nations: music as indigenous knowledge

Jazz: taught and not taught

Cross-cultural pathways to music learning

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4: Systems And Standards Of Music Education

Logical and localized systems

Argentina

Australia

Brazil

China

France

Hungary

Japan

South Africa

United Kingdom

North America: the United States and Canada

Synthesizing the systems

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5: Music In "Your Local"

Local schools within earshot

Jackson high school

Daniel Webster middle school

Maplewood elementary school

Music in the community of school

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6: Theories Of Musical Thinking And Doing

Music as human behavior

Who they musically are

What they hear-and how

Range of their feelings

Developmental schemes

Theories of learning and teaching

Research to practice

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7: Teaching Music To Children

Children as a "choice"

Musical children au naturel

Children's enhanced musical development

Methods for teaching music to children

Teacher of musical children

Teacher's duties, children's rights

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8: Choral Classroom

Comprehensive choral program

Choral ensembles

Qualities of a successful choir teacher

Profiles of success

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9: Of School Bands, Orchestras, And Jazz Ensembles

How did we get here?

Shape and size of the instrumental program

Becoming an instrumentalist

Middle years

Many faces of the high school instrumentalist

Understanding the instrumental program

Teaching the instrumental class

Unique and varied place

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10: All The Rest Of The Music

Tradition and change in school music

Performance courses

Performance ensembles

Academic courses

After-school music possibilities

Music for everyone

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11: Diverse Learners And Learning Styles

Many-splendored musical children

Diversity from a multicultural perspective

Diversity in music education practice

Diversity of exceptional learners

Music and education for exceptional learners

Unity within diversity

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12: Classroom Management And Motivation

False dichotomy

Great expectations

Why can't you behave? a look at motivation

Power and the teacher

Taking it personally

Making management decisions

Managing the classroom and beyond

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13: Assessment

Types of assessment

Implementing effective assessment in the music classroom

Models for music assessment

Alternative assessment options

Assessment in the ensemble

Assessment and grading

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14: Technology

Planning for music technology

Technology for the teacher

Technology for the student

Integrating technology

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15: Out In The Field: Look-Listen-Learn

Defining the field

Maneuvers of the field experience

First impressions

Domain of school music

Music teachers in action

Music teachers on schedule

Lasting impressions

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16: Teacher's Life In Music

Between two worlds

Points of decision making

Journey ahead

Parting shot

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