An Orientation to Music Education: Structural Knowledge for Music Teaching
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Book Description
This book is intended to assist experienced teachers make thoughtful decisions regarding music teaching and learning that are essential to effective practice. It emphasizes issues and matters specifically pertinent to the teaching of music in all settings, and it provides the structural knowledge and seminal questions that need to be addressed in making good choices about what and how to teach in music. Coherently organized into five chapters, this comprehensive book covers music education context; the educational landscape; the significance and process of decision making; organizing instruction; and becoming and being a music teacher. For music teachers in all school settings; as well as music store managers, owners, and employees.
From the Back Cover
An Orientation to Music Education: Structural Knowledge for Music Teaching focuses on the thoughtful consideration of strategies for successful teaching in both the required and elective music curricula. Practioners agree that teacher clarity and student understanding of the purpose of daily and longer-range instruction are critical in all settings and styles of teaching and learning. With this consensus, the importance of organizing teaching and learning so that they result in effective practice requires all teachers to think in terms of the several types of objectives, and the various strategies, that allow meaningful feedback to reach both individuals and classrooms of learners.
Teachers are the only individual who should make the final decisions on instructional priorities; to help the teacher do this effectively, the text provides a background of elements &,the reform movement that affect how teachers make these critical decisions. Practice in making these decisions is then provided throughout the text by engaging students in thinking and discussion activities of the possible goals and venues of instruction.
Written for both pre-service and in-service teachers, the text stresses the use of what is known from research and experience about successful music teaching including:
An Orientation to Music Education: Structural Knowledge for Music Teaching,Richard J. Colwell,Liz Wing,Prentice Hall,0130489220,Instruction & Study - General,Instruction and study,Music,Music Education,Music / General
An Orientation to Music Education: Structural Knowledge for Music Teaching
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