MUSIC 23241: MUSIC TEACHING AS A PROFESSION
Mr. Marcus L. Neiman, Assistant Professor
Kent State University School of Music
Fall, 2011
CRN: 200910 – Section number: 001 – Class Days: TR 7:45a – 8:35 am - Classroom: SOM E202
Office: Band Office - 330.672.2965 - Telephone: 330.672.2965 (Kent Campus) - E-mail: mneiman@kent.edu
Office Hours: TR 9:00 – 9:55 am (Additional hours available by appointment)
BlackBoard and Text Readings
Submitted by:
Katie LeMaster
Submitted for:
Mr. Marcus L. Neiman, lecturer
Date: October 13, 2011
Lehman, Paul R. The power of the National Standards for Music Education.
Pages 3-9
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Summary of the Article: Music education is not a program that can be generalized. Music standards are meant to be taught along with everything else you teach your students in a school day. Its not just meant to be squished into what your teaching already. The music standards were decieded on by a group of over 70 music professionals to deciede what goals they all had in common. Many teachers find it hard to teach the standards because they never learned them themselds. Standard one and two is about singing and playing instruments. Standard three covers improvisation. Standard four is about teaching composition. Standard five is about reading and notating music. Standard six says that all students should be able to analize and describe music. Standard seven says that all students should be evaluated in music. Standard eight says to foster a relationship between music and other subjects. Standard nine deals with music history and the culture behind the music. With the new standards there is a push to teach more modern and more classical tunes to have a diversity in repertoire. It is expected that some students will do better with some of the standards than others depending on what they study.
The standards will help to balance music programs. With the new standards it will be easy to make a cirruculm since we already know what the students need to know. Also the standards help the administration to know what we want out students to learn. Standards give us a reason to need more resources. The standards give us something to assess on.
Personal statements: This article gave us a clearer picture on what the standards are. It explained to me exactly what each one was and why it was important. They also gave you ideas on ways to use the standards in other ways to make you look better to the administration. I agree with this article that music education standards are the way to being all the music programs up to the same level.
I agree with this author that we need music education standards in schools because I think the more that you know about music the better musician you will be. In middle school I was assessed during concert band and I felt that thay gave me and the teacher a better idea of what I knew. I think that it made the band better too. I think an important part of music is being able to do more than just read the music your playing, I think you need to be able to understand why it was written that way.
