MUSIC 383
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Art of Teaching Instrumentalists in Ensembles
Music
College of Fine Arts and Communications
Course Description
Curriculum design, evaluating ensemble performance, advanced rehearsal techniques, administering secondary instrumental music programs; computers and computer-assisted instruction.
When Taught
Winter.
Fixed/Max
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Title
Spiritually Strengthening
Learning Outcome
Discover ways to appropriately teach by the Spirit in a secular educational setting (D&C 50:13-22).
Title
Professionalism
Learning Outcome
Develop and maintain the professional skills, traits, and behaviors expected of a professional music educator.
Title
K-12 Instrumental Music Program Management
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate the leadership and managerial skills required to manage a K-12 band and orchestra program. This includes contest/festival adjudication, facility planning, recruiting, public relations, finances, and fund raising.
Title
Rehearsal techniques
Learning Outcome
Students will demonstrate ability to locate and resolve errors in ensemble performance and to conduct ensemble music with clarity and purpose. Students will gain experience in the musical skills of intonation/quality, and transposition/score reading.
Title
Diagnosing Technical and Aural Problems
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate and improve needed aural, theoretical, and pedagogical skills required for effective conducting and teaching in a K-12 band and orchestra rehearsal. This includes the ability to diagnose aural and technical problems while proposing remedial strategies to improve student musicianship.
Title
Effective Conducting
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate a high degree of musicianship as a conductor.
Title
Teaching
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate ability to effectively sequence and instruct the skills of musicianship needed in a K-12 band and orchestra class.
Title
Instrumental Pedagogy
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate the ability to identify skills and techniques common to K-12 band and orchestra musicians. This includes the ability to recognize challenges and diagnose solutions to common pedagogical challenges encountered in a K-12 band and orchestra classroom.
Title
Performing on Band and Orchestra Instruments
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate the ability to play music appropriate for school bands and orchestras with proper playing position, tone quality, rhythmic accuracy, intonation, and expression on all instruments learned in workshop classes.
Title
Philosophy of Instrumental Music Education
Learning Outcome
Develop and demonstrate the ability to articulate a personal philosophy for music education which accounts for the place of arts in the K-12 school curriculum. Philosophical topics may include the scope and sequence of a curriculum, music selection, extra-musical activities (travel, fund raising, service), diversity and inclusion, and ethics.
