People & History
Seminars and Conferences
Pedagogy
Extras
Traditions
100
The singing hymns and psalms were particularly important in this area of Colonial New England.
What is the "Northern" region?
100
Initiated in 1969, this project developed a set of 35 specific objectives for implementation. The National Executive Board of MENC selected 8 of these to address. This led to a publication containing a set of musical skills that students should acquire by the completion of each grade level.
What is the goals and objectives project (Go Project)?
100
A teacher who takes on the facilitator role, is called this type of teacher.
What is a "constructivist teacher"?
100
He was a Swiss musician interested in helping his students with the conversion of musical knowledge to understanding. He developed an approach to music education dependent upon the use of movement and rhythm, as well as improvisation.
Who is "Emile Jaques-Dalcroze"?
100
The central thesis for chapter 1 from William's text.
What is "change"?
200
Secular music played an important part of the musical life in this region of the United States?
What is the "south" or "southern region"?
200
Held in 1967 in Massachusetts, this gathering brought together music professionals, as well as many influential and knowledgeable non-musicians. The goal was to collaborate and develop ways to improve music education and make school music study more useful to the general society. The result was a “Declaration” that is still referenced as an excellent advocacy document for music education.
What is the Tanglewood symposium?
200
This type of music allows teachers the opportunity to bring music making experiences to the general public, relatively inexpensive, that were once only available to a select few individuals.
What is "digital music"?
200
What is not a subject area considered “core curricula” in Florida’s public schools?
What is the "visual arts"?
200
Education is the branch of this larger area.
What is "the Social Sciences"?
300
This consisted of a music teacher, or singing master, that held classes in towns and cities where people wanted to learn how to sing and read notation.
What is a "singing school"?
300
This program began in 1965 with a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. Its goal was to advance comprehensive musicianship and develop a sequential music curriculum for grades 3 – 12. At the center of this curriculum was a creative approach where children encounter stages of exploration and have multiple opportunities for composing, performing, conducting, listening, and evaluating.
What is the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Program?
300
According to Chapter 4, traditional music education pedagogies do what to creativity and critical thinking, in favor of music that is reflective of the director’s decisions.
What is "minimize"?
300
This is suggested to be the pervasive (commonly held) mindset about the size of music class.
What is "bigger is better"?
300
According to the introduction of William's text, the point at which change, imposed on an object, cannot be stopped or un-done.
What is "the tipping point"?
400
According to the reading, this man was a particularly important educational theorist and philosopher, who believed that educational pursuits must be relevant to the life activities of the student.
Who is "Pestalozzi"?
400
A program that helped to foster the creation of new music by placing creators of this music in the schools. Between 1959 and 1963, thirty-one of these music creators were implemented into school systems across the U.S. This program was closely related to the Contemporary Music Project (CMP).
What is the Young Composers Project?
400
Chapter 4 suggests that constructivist teaching/learning approaches in conjunction with some traditional approaches might have what effect of the learning in the classroom?
What is "increase higher order learning in novice learners"?
400
According to Chapter 4, the large ensemble environment may lead to this type of focus.
What is "the entire group"?
400
In chapter 1, Williams presents some data regarding enrollment figures in the state of Florida, suggesting decreases in percentages from 1985 - 2005.
What is "16-10% over that time"?
500
According to the reading, this German composer was interested in trying to determine the type of music which is truly music for children. He was most interested in children improvising and accompanying figures.
Who is "Carl Orff"?
500
Held in 1963, thirty-one musicians, scholars, and teachers gathered to consider the problems facing music education and to propose possible solutions. The central issue at this gathering was the failure of public school music programs to produce a musically literate society. One of the suggestions to result from this gathering was to make the development of musicality the main goal of the K-12 music curriculum.
What is the Yale Seminar?
500
According to chapter 3, these two elements should be included in the future and are similar to large performing ensembles.
What is "performance quality" and "group dynamics/social aspects"?
500
According to Chapter 5, Florida legislature determined that all high school students must complete what amount of online classes in order to graduate?
What is "one"?
500
According to Chapter 1, you (a music education major) utilize these two past experiences for what music education is and how it works.
What is "Your school music program" and "the music teacher in that program"?
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