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Micro-Credentials Available at the 2018 NAfME National Conference

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NAfME is excited to offer these micro-credentials
at the 2018 NAfME Conference.

How Micro-Credentialing Works

What It Is

  • A credential provides an opportunity for you to showcase your participation in an in-depth learning experience. You can promote the credential as part of your resume and in your annual evaluation with your administrator or supervisor.
  • NAfME will provide you both with a PDF certificate naming the credential and, by early 2019, a virtual micro-credential badge.

How It Works at the 2018 NAfME National Conference

  • Participants attend in-depth training in a topic area. This can be in-depth workshops or a suite of sessions around a similar topic. Additional readings and/or online resources may also be required. Each credential will require between 10-12 hours of learning, usually a combination of conference sessions and online resources.
  • In addition, participants will submit a brief action plan to demonstrate that they have thought about how to put their learning into action.
  • Upon successful completion of the action plan, participants are issued the credential. As noted above, this will be a PDF certificate currently, moving to virtual credentialing through our new platform, AMPLIFY.

How You Can Participate

  • Sign up at bit.ly/2018Micro-Credential to signal your interest and to receive updated information about your topic’s credential.
  • Participate in the post-training assessment. NAfME will e-mail you the link to the action plan based on the information you provide on the sign-up form. Participation will cost $25, which includes a one-year subscription to NAfME Academy.

Available Credentials

Amplify: Learning – Teaching Music as a Well-Rounded Subject. How do we move beyond the podium and include our students as active music-makers and leaders in our ensembles as promised in our 2014 Music Standards? Led by Johanna Siebert and Armalyn De La O. To learn more about required sessions and readings, click here.

Amplify: Innovation – Cultivating Innovative Music-Making. How do we successfully embrace a variety of musical experiences with this generation of students? Led by Anne Fennell. To learn more about required sessions and readings, click here.

Amplify: Involvement – Engaging Diversity in Music-Making and Teaching. How do we create a fully inclusive classroom for all learners and all students, regardless of background, learning style, or level of musical experience? Led by Alice Hammel. To learn more about required sessions and readings, click here.

Amplify: Inspiration – Inspiring Students through Music Creativity. How do we provide for the creation and improvisation of music throughout the curriculum—whether an ensemble, general music, or music appreciation class? Led by Christopher Azzara. To learn more about required sessions and readings, click here.

Amplify: Technology – Teaching the Tech-Savvy Generation. How do we integrate technology in a meaningful way that engages students and provides new opportunities that were never before possible? Led by John Mlynczak. To learn more about required sessions and readings, click here.

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Micro-Credential Requirements

Amplify: Learning

Required Sessions

  1. Individuals interested in earning the Amplify: Learning micro-credential must attend all sessions in the Amplify: Learning Opus track.

Required Reading 

  1. Fostering Musical Independence
  2. Does School Band Kill Creativity? Embracing New Traditions in Instrumental Music
  3. Teaching Improvisation in Elementary General Music

Required Webinars:

  1. Standards, Assessment and Evaluation – a Major Triad

 To sign up for this micro-credential, click here.

Along with the required sessions, webinar, and readings, in order to complete and earn the micro-credential, participants will need to submit a brief action plan to demonstrate that they have thought about how to put their learning into action via the plan submission. We have set aside time at the conference on Wednesday, November 14th from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the “Davis 2” room if you would like to work on your action plan prior to returning home.

Amplify: Innovation

Required Sessions

  1. Individuals interested in earning the Amplify: Innovation micro-credential must attend all sessions in the Amplify: Innovation Opus track.

Required Reading 

  1. Beginning Band without a Stand: Fostering Creative Musicianship in Early Instrumental Programs
  2. Habits of Mind
  3. In Search of the Beautiful: Bob Duke and the Curious Mind
  4. Rocking Out with the Lakewood Project

 To sign up for this micro-credential, click here.

Along with the required sessions, webinar, and readings, in order to complete and earn the micro-credential, participants will need to submit a brief action plan to demonstrate that they have thought about how to put their learning into action via the plan submission. We have set aside time at the conference on Wednesday, November 14th from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the “Davis 2” room if you would like to work on your action plan prior to returning home.

Amplify: Involvement

Required Sessions

  1. Individuals Involvement in earning the Amplify: Innovation micro-credential must attend all sessions in the Amplify: Involvement Opus track.

Required Reading 

  1. The Sounds of Silence: Talking Race in Music Education
  2. Toward Socially Inclusive Music Organizations: Promoting Socioeconomic Diversity in Choral Ensembles
  3. But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Suggested Additional Readings

 To sign up for this micro-credential, click here.

Along with the required sessions, webinar, and readings, in order to complete and earn the micro-credential, participants will need to submit a brief action plan to demonstrate that they have thought about how to put their learning into action via the plan submission. We have set aside time at the conference on Wednesday, November 14th from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the “Davis 2” room if you would like to work on your action plan prior to returning home.

Amplify: Inspiration

Required Sessions

  1. Individuals interested in earning the Amplify: Inspiration micro-credential must attend all sessions in the Amplify: Inspiration Opus track.

Required Reading 

  1. An Aural Approach to Improvisation
  2. Improvisation
  3. Assessment of Improvisation in Music
  4. The Vocally Proficient Choir: Part Two Improvisation and Choral Musicianship
  5. Improvisation and Composition: Developing Musicianship in Instrumental Music

Required Webinars:

  1. TEDxRochester – Christopher Azzara – 11/7/11

To sign up for this micro-credential, click here.

Along with the required sessions, webinar, and readings, in order to complete and earn the micro-credential, participants will need to submit a brief action plan to demonstrate that they have thought about how to put their learning into action via the plan submission.

We have set aside time at the conference on Wednesday, November 14th from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the “Davis 2” room if you would like to work on your action plan prior to returning home.

 

Amplify: Technology

Required Sessions

  1. Individuals interested in earning the Amplify: Technology micro-credential must attend all sessions in the Amplify: Technology Opus track.

Required Reading 

  1. Sound Systems for the 21st-Century Classroom
  2. Music Technology Curriculum, Standards & Objectives Video Blog
  3. How Do I Get Started with Chromebooks in Music Education?
  4. Creativity and Collaboration with Noteflight Learn

To sign up for this micro-credential, click here.

Along with the required sessions, webinar, and readings, in order to complete and earn the micro-credential, participants will need to submit a brief action plan to demonstrate that they have thought about how to put their learning into action via the plan submission. We have set aside time at the conference on Wednesday, November 14th from 8:00 – 10:30 AM in the “Davis 2” room if you would like to work on your action plan prior to returning home.

 

By January 31, 2019, successful participants will receive a virtual micro-credential badge attached to their membership through the new NAfME online community, AMPLIFY. This badge can be included in your LinkedIn, NAfME Career Center profile, or other online resume resources to showcase your learning.

Questions? Contact JJ Norman at JohnN@nafme.org.

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