Education Reform or Evolution:
How will the political climate affect music education and should we care? The term ‘reform” has a somewhat negative connotation to me. Perhaps that is because during my 35 years…
Category: Interest Areas
State Editors Respond to a Survey on Digital Publications
Catherine Hunt, director of teacher education and music education at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, wanted to learn about where the various NAfME state journals stood when it came to…
2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education Call for Proposals
The 2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education will be held September 26 – 29, 2013 at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. The call for proposals, posted at…
Workshops in Music Theory Pedagogy
Workshops in Music Theory Pedagogy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst June 24-28, 2013 Learn about teaching music theory from five leading authors and scholars Visit the Workshops Website: http://www.umass.edu/musictheory/
Clarification for Upcoming NAfME Conferences
Recently the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) announced a call for proposals and a new format for a conference scheduled in Nashville, October 27-30, 2013. Details and proposal applications…
2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education
The 2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education will be held September 26-29, 2013, at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. This biennial event is organized by the Society for Music…
Got Your Mobile? You’ve Got NAfME Journals!
NAfME members can now access four of their professional journals from their mobile devices (Android, Blackberry, iPhone, tablet, etc.). Included are Music Educators Journal Update: Applications of Research in Music…
You Can Begin Again
The secret to success in any field may be getting up one more time than you’re knocked down. Mary Ellen Cohn, executive director of the Maryland Music Educators Association, was…
Teacher Effectiveness: A short update for North Carolina
Just a couple of weeks ago I received an Educator Effectiveness Update memo provided by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI). Beginning this year, NCDPI will make available…
A Little Music Training Goes a Long Way
A recent article in the Journal of Neuroscience touts the benefits of even a few years of music training. In the Scientific American “Science Sushi” blog, Christie Wilcox says, “Music…
