Learning Theories
Important Dates
Music Educators
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History
100
A form of learning that occurs through a process of rewards and punishments.
What is Skinner's operant conditioning?
100
The year the first National Standards for the Arts were published.
What is 1994?
100

Note/symbol focused music educator who wrote the Manual of the Boston Academy of Music and advocated for music education for everyone.

Who is Lowell Mason?

100
Auditory, Visual and Kinestetic.
What are learning styles?
100
She established the first US college program for training music educators (blame her).
Who is Julia Ettie Crane?
200

A curriculum that gradually builds by reinforcing them over time.

What is Bruner's spiral curriculum?

200
The year the National Core Arts Standards were published.
What is 2014?
200

Founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra who is credited for influencing orchestral programs in US schools.

Who is Theodore Thomas?

200
Performing, Responding, Creating, and Connecting
What are the 4 artistic processes that structure the 2014 National Core Arts Standards?
200
Francis Elliott Clark brought this device to the music education classroom.
What is the phonograph? (or recordings)
300

I do, We do, You do together, You do alone.

What is the Gradual Release of Responsibility model?

300
The year the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed in the United States.
What is 1965?
300

Credited with founding the organization that today is known as NAfME.

Who is Philip C. Hayden?

300

Derived from the concept of "au natural," this curricular idea focuses on early childhood music learning that occurs holistically and naturally as children explore the world creatively through music.

What is musical play?

300
Music Supervisors National Conference is the original name of this music education organization.
What is NAfME?
400

Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

What are Piaget's Four Stages of Cognitive Development?

400
The year No Child Left Behind was established.
What is 2001?
400

Early advocate for sight before sound who traveled to Europe and brought back Pestalozzi’s progressive education ideas.

Who is William Channing Woodbridge?

400
An approach to music learning in which students listen to music and work together to create their own covers or original songs (based on research on popular musicians).
What is Lucy Green's Informal Music Learning?
400

A gathering and report by leading music educators regarding the importance of music education being placed in the core of the school curriculum.

What is Tanglewood I (Symposium and/or Declaration)?

500
An approach to learning based on a more knowledgeable person providing scaffolding and support to the learner.
What is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development?
500
The year the Every Student Succeeds Act was passed.
What is 2015?
500

Rote focused music educator who wrote the National Music Course and traveled to Japan to take Western music traditions to Japan.

Who is Luther Whiting Mason?

500

A comprehensive curriculum project designed to create a sequential curriculum using the spiral curriculum.

What is the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project?
500

A gathering and report by leading music scholars that criticize the quality of school music repertoire and school music teaching.

What is the Yale Seminar?
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