Final Exam Review for MUS 109: Music Education

World Music Pedagogy

A method of teaching music that incorporates various music cultures into the curriculum

Five Levels of Instruction

attentive, listening, engaged, listening, and active, listening, creating world, music, integrating world music

Mariachi Music

-Don Gaspar Vargas founded in 1890
- Armonia: folkloric harp, guitarron, vihuela, guitarron de golpe, guitas
- Melodia: violins, trumpets, vocals from instruments

Choral Curriculum Skills

A program that welcomes all levels of musicians, but rewards, advanced training, and achievement with greater levels of musical challenge

Fundamentals of Singing

breath and posture, resonance, vowel formation, range, flexibility, and intonation

Challenges in Teaching Singing

Adolescents struggle with vocal changes and confidence.

Four Fundamentals of Music

Music, reading, stylistic awareness, critical, listening, expressive performance

biggest determinant of a choral program

repertoire choice, if the music does not fit the students ability level boredom, and frustration will take over

Repertoire Programming Balance

Teachers should balance difficulty, styles and cultures, and tempos

Factors Influencing Instrument Choice

role models, sounds, looks, peer pressure, adult pressure, teacher, pressure, random chance, size, convenience

Types of Ensembles

pep band, chamber, ensemble, concert band, jazz, ensemble, marching band

Multiculturalism

process of society and its schools to enable people for multiple cultures to live and learn together; movement aimed at the achievement of racial ethnic equity in all of society

Multicultural vs. World Music Education

Multicultural focuses on diversity; world music on global traditions.

Reducing Ethnocentrism

diversifying the music content of curricular programs

Exceptional Learners

Students with unique learning needs or disabilities.

Music Education for Exceptional Learners

utilizing flexibility and instructional processes, and an understanding of how to adapt the pace and clarity of instructions

Successful Classroom Management

good planning, understanding, developmental stages of students, planning your teaching sequence according to their developmental needs

Nonmusical Behaviors for Class Success

following directions, active, listening, constructive criticism, prepared with materials, respecting others

Music as a Motivator

Using music to inspire and engage students, use different strategies to help students frustrations

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation

Intrinsic is doing it for your own sake; extrinsic is doing it because someone told you to

Risks of Emotional Teacher Response

The danger of overstepping the boundaries to which educators are confined by propriety and by law

Purpose of Assessment

it provides ongoing feedback to help students learn, it helps determine effectiveness of their instruction.

Types of Assessment

formative, summative, and diagnostic.

Challenges of Music Assessment

large number of students, multiple levels of achievement within same class, performance-based setting

Evaluation

result of assessment, grade or rating

Benefits of Effective Assessment

helps teacher be a better teacher, guides teachers teaching, according to the needs of the students, help students feel challenged and successful

what is it meant by the saying, " musicians who can teach"

while few may make it as a professional performer, everyone can be successful as a teacher of music

Plato

Believe that children who learn music became more civilized, and grew into a harmonic balance between themselves and their world

Aristotle

student of plato, believed music was a significant component of early Olympic competitions

St.Augustine

attracted to music, beauty, and at the same time, thought it was wildly distracting from the message of the biblical and devotional texts

Boethius

supported the view of the ancient Greeks, that music of the highest moral character- modest and simple, and masculine, rather than violent or fickle- be composed and taught, as it would make its way to the soul