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2.00 Credits
Prepares and supports students interested in the design, implementation and/or assessment of music programs serving the social and emotional needs of K-12 students. Discussion of readings, observations, projects, and guided inquiry into the potential of music as a catalyst for learning in special education settings. Particular emphasis is placed on autism, cognitive, and social-emotional disorders and strategies for serving students at risk for failure in middle and secondary school settings. (2 credits) Faculty
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Prepares students for teaching basic music skills. Focus is on the nature of learning in music, supported by background readings, observations, supervised teaching projects, and assessment. This course supports students who teach fundamentals, solfege, ear training, keyboard harmony, tonal practice, and counterpoint for NEC's Theory Department, as well as those who wish to teach in community music schools, public schools, or continuing education programs. Digital portfolios will be created to provide a method of reflection on current teaching, and to support future teaching opportunities at all levels of instruction. (2 credits) Miljkovic
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Explores approaches to music making and music learning that derive from ancient resonances of oral traditions and contemporary research in music and cognition. (2 credits) Senders
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This course provides an overview and hands-on experience with a variety of current music recording and production technologies used to engage school communities in the creation and production of original, student-generated music. Students will explore the possibilities, functionality, and integration of wide range music technology by surveying methodologies of outreach for "at risk" and other typically disenfranchised youth. Students will be asked to reflect on music technology in their own understanding and development as musicians, as well as music's role in society. (2 credits) Cain
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Introduces psychology of learning, development, educational concepts, materials, and the implementation of documentation, assessment and strategies relevant to studio teaching in any area of music education, including all instruments and voice. This seminar is for students who have prior experience in studio instruction, or who have already taken pedagogy classes, and will benefit from documenting, analyzing, and presenting their own teaching practices. Portfolios from this seminar will be designed to support each student's professional aspirations for private teaching. (2 credits) Faculty MIE 554 Music and Music-Integrated Teaching and Learning Explores ways of integrating music into other academic and arts learning disciplines. Through readings, papers, and discussions, students gain insight into the foundations of interdisciplinary and arts-integrated teaching and learning, and how music can play a vital role in these contexts. The latest research and readings in the field of music integration practices will be featured in classroom studies and hands-on experience, creating music integrated curriculum and assessment practices, and demonstrating their value in a variety of education contexts. This course is recommended as a companion to MIE 558, Creating Original Opera in Schools. As a follow-up to other MIE courses or concurrent with guided internships, this course challenges students to create and pilot curriculum units and lesson plans that reflect a particular philosophy of music teaching and learning. (2 credits) Faculty
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Develops ways of presenting music to audiences with little musical training. Students develop skills in communicating the power and language of music through interaction with audiences, guest lecturers, and the instructor. (2 credits) Faculty
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Explores venues for employing traditional and contemporary improvisation techniques and methods for all instruments in the general music classroom ensemble, or private lessons, with an emphasis on multiple cultural perspectives on percussion and vocal teaching and learning and attention to social-emotional aspects of drum circle facilitation. Interdisciplinary aspects of improvisation are also explored with attention to language arts, mathematics, history, and science. Introduces techniques for teaching improvisation, with an emphasis on 'playing by ear', ornamentation, and learning through call-and-response exercises. Explores the cultural, historical, and educational methods of teaching improvisation in schools through readings, research, observation and discussion. (2 credits) Senders
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2.00 Credits
Adapted from local and national opera performance and outreach programs for public schools, this course provides students who are preparing for a career in opera with an opportunity to enhance their career preparation by gaining experience and familiarity with a variety of educational outreach activities designed to engage elementary and secondary school communities through the presentation of opera. The course will feature guest speakers and discussion panels comprised of NEC faculty and other appropriate professionals in the field of opera performance in public schools. (2 credits) Faculty
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2.00 Credits
Adapted from the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Creating Original Opera Program for public schools, this course provides students who are preparing for a career in opera, as well as student composers, improvisation majors, or students who have taken courses in composition for non-majors, with an opportunity to enrich their career preparation by gaining experience and familiarity with a variety of educational outreach activities designed to engage elementary and secondary school communities in the creation and production of original opera. The course will feature guest speakers and discussion panels comprised of NEC faculty and other appropriate professionals in the field of opera performance or composition in public schools. Those students who elect to use this course as one of their Music-in-Education guided internships may do so in the following areas: composition, turning story into libretto, vocal production in young people, design (stage, lighting, and costume), or stage directing. (2 credits) Faculty
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2.00 Credits
Explores the changing roles of music training and literature in American education over the last century. Topics include the influence of non-classical music literature and musical processes such as jazz, gospel, and international folk/world music on American public school programs. (2 credits) Faculty
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