Preparation

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What Tips for Mentors/Mentees Have Proven Useful in Your Experience?

What Tips for Mentors/Mentees Have Proven Useful in Your Experience? Six Music Educators Share Tips This article first appeared in the April 2023 issue of Teaching Music. John Combs, Montana…

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Educating in the Music Classroom through Service-Learning

Educating in the Music Classroom through Service-Learning By NAfME Member Jan Scott Presenting Educating in the Music Classroom through Service-Learning at the “NAfME is ME!” 2022 NAfME National Conference in…

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College Audition Tips from New York Philharmonic Trumpeter and Manhattan School of Music Faculty Ethan Bensdorf

College Audition Tips from New York Philharmonic Trumpeter and Manhattan School of Music Faculty Ethan Bensdorf How Brass Students Can Prepare for Audition Season and How Their Music Directors Can…

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An Approach to Start Building Support for Your Musical Initiative

An Approach to Start Building Support for Your Musical Initiative By Harish Nayak, sponsored by Eastman School of Music As educators, we might come upon opportunities to expand on or…

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What Can You Do with a Music Education Degree?

What Can You Do with a Music Education Degree? Sponsored by NAfME Corporate Member Kent State University This blog first appeared on the Kent State Online blog. Kent State University…

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Strategies for Navigating the Music Education Major for Incoming and Transfer Students

Strategies for Navigating the Music Education Major for Incoming and Transfer Students By Phillip D. Payne, Natalie Steel Royston, Adrian D. Barnes, and Kate M. Bertelli-Wilinski This article is adapted…

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Three Tips for Teaching Music Online, from Teachers College, Columbia University

Three Tips for Teaching Music Online, from Teachers College, Columbia University Sponsored by Teachers College, Columbia University Master of Arts in Music and Music Education Teaching online poses unique opportunities…

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UF Music Education Grad Becomes a Published Composer

UF Music Education Grad Becomes a Published Composer Sponsored by University of Florida, Online Master of Music in Music Education When Cooper Ford, a music teacher at North Brunswick Township…

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NAfME Collegiate Chat: “Becoming a Music Teacher: Making the Transition!”

  Please join NAfME Collegiate Advisory Council Northwest Division Representative Lori Gray and Western Division Representative Jared Rawlings, with NAfME Collegiate Advisory Council Chair Susan Smith for the March Collegiate…

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5 Skills of an Engaged and Enthusiastic Mentee

5 Skills of an Engaged and Enthusiastic Mentee How to Get the Most from a Musical Mentor  By NAfME Member Lori Schwartz Reichl  This article first appeared in the October…

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