String Teacher Preparation and the National Music Standards

In the past few decades, there has been an increase in the percentage of non-string specialists teaching string classes. In this article, we review literature about subject-specific pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in general and music education settings, to better understand the challenges that teachers with limited knowledge of string-specific content may face when teaching strings students. Included in this review are discussions concerning trends in the string teacher workforce, PCK in education and music, acquisition of PCK in general settings and music teacher preparation programs, and relationships between teacher content knowledge and instructional effectiveness, both in general and string education settings. Based on this review, we recommend that preservice and professional development curricula for music teachers include comprehensive preparation in both content-specific and pedagogical-specific knowledge for teaching strings.

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Chasing legitimacy: the US National Music Standards viewed through a critical theorist framework

Music Education Research ◽

10.1080/14613800600570686 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 3-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Cathy Benedict

Keyword(s):

Music Standards ◽

The Us ◽

Critical Theorist ◽

National Music

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Survey of Public School String Teacher Preparation

American String Teacher ◽

10.1177/000313139504500316 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 73-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Camille M. Smith

Keyword(s):

Teacher Preparation ◽

Public School ◽

String Teacher

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Scott Joplin: A Guide for Music Educators PART II—King of Ragtime Composers

General Music Today ◽

10.1177/10483713211012432 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104837132110124

Author(s):

Kendra Kay Friar

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Music Educators ◽

Student Activities ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Harmonic Content ◽

Music Standards ◽

American Composer ◽

National Music

Scott Joplin (1868–1917) was an African American composer and pianist of singular merit and influence. This article is the second in a three-part series considering the biographical, artistic, and cultural contexts of Joplin’s life and work. “King of Ragtime Composers,” focuses on Scott Joplin’s artistic processes, including his structuring of melodic and harmonic content and his novel contributions to ragtime. The discussion is followed by suggested student activities written in accordance with NAfME’s 2014 National Music Standards, including performing a ragtime accompaniment, playing an original Orff arrangement of Joplin’s “The Easy Winners,” improvising within a ragtime framework, and listening to and analyzing performance choices.

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Beginning Strings

The Oxford Handbook of Preservice Music Teacher Education in the United States ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190671402.013.37 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 764-783

Author(s):

Michael Hopkins ◽

Kristen Pellegrino

Keyword(s):

Teacher Preparation ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Music Teacher ◽

Future Research ◽

Promising Practices ◽

Teaching Competencies ◽

String Education ◽

Context Learning ◽

Education Coursework ◽

String Teacher

The purpose of this chapter is to describe current research and practice in beginning string instruction and teacher preparation, to provide an overview of the challenges faced by music teacher educators (MTEs), and to offer suggestions for future directions. First, the chapter provides an overview of the curriculum for beginning string education classes and identifies performance and teaching competencies needed to teach beginning strings. Next, it describes the teacher education coursework and authentic-context learning experiences commonly used to address these performance and teaching competencies. Finally, the chapter challenges and promising practices for string teacher preparation and provides suggestions for future research.

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Scott Joplin: A Guide for Music Educators PART I—A Ragtime Life

General Music Today ◽

10.1177/10483713211002150 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 29-35

Author(s):

Kendra Kay Friar

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

21St Century ◽

Music Educators ◽

Teaching Materials ◽

Academic Interest ◽

Classroom Activities ◽

Music Standards ◽

American Composer ◽

National Music ◽

The Masses

Scott Joplin (1868-1917) was an African American composer and pianist of singular merit and influence. Academic interest in Joplin has increased in recent years, leading to new discoveries about the composer’s activities, yet teaching materials have not been updated at the same pace as 21st-century findings. Joplin was an entrepreneur, a performer, and a philanthropist, yet his biography is often reduced to a “celebratory” narrative of a composer creating toe-tapping music for the masses. Ragtime Lives, the first in a three-part series, presents a modern understanding of the biographical context, which shaped Scott Joplin’s music thought and practice and provides suggested classroom activities for exploring Joplin’s life and works written in accordance with NAfME’s 2014 National Music Standards.

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