Meeting Pattern
MTWThF (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.} Assignments due by 1:00 PM Monday, August 8.Description
The symposium is designed to offer music education professionals an opportunity to work with noted experts in their respective fields. The curriculum will be designed to allow for optimum opportunities for each participant to receive advanced instruction in their chosen track.
Guest lecturers will be:
BIRCH BROWING is Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Cleveland State University, and Music Director of the Cleveland Winds, a professional wind band based at CSU. He taught high school band and orchestra in Florida prior to earning a Ph.D. in Music Education at Florida State University. A member of the faculty at CSU since 2002, he previously taught music education courses at Stetson University and FSU.
Dr. Browning is a member of the College Band Director’s National Association Research Committee and has presented his research findings at numerous state and national conferences. His first book, Becoming a Musician-Educator: An Orientation to Musical Pedagogy, was published by Oxford University Press in April 2017. Dr. Browning served on the editorial board of Contributions, a research journal sponsored by the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA), from 2008 to 2020, including four years as Editor and six years as Associate Editor of the journal. Dr. Browning has served on the College Band Directors National Association Research and Editorial Review Committee since 2015.
Along with his research work, Dr. Browning is in demand as a conductor and clinician. In addition to his conducting responsibilities at CSU, Dr. Browning founded the Cleveland Winds in 2009. The Cleveland Winds is the winner of The American Prize in the Band/Wind Ensemble Performance—community & school division and performed at the Ohio Music Education Association Professional Development Conference in Cleveland, Ohio in 2017. The CSU Chamber Winds performed at the same conference in 2005 and 2015. Dr. Browning’s ensembles have given live performances on WCLV, Cleveland’s Classical Music Station, on six occasions. The CSU Symphonic Band, CSU Chamber Winds, and the Cleveland Winds appear on the recently released recording Timothy Reynish International Repertoire Series, Vol. 12, which is available on iTunes and Spotify.
Dr. Browning is the author of the online software application, eMirror, multi-purpose research, and instructional tool. eMirror is designed to assist in the process of obtaining quantitative time use and sequence data from video episodes and in creating self-observation assignments for students to promote data-informed reflection. Researchers and instructors design custom observation and assessment templates, allowing them to focus on the target behavior to be observed, quantified, and timed, and to encourage students to focus on specific aspects of their instructional delivery for subsequent improvement. Research on the use of eMirror also indicates that preservice teachers, specifically music education students, significantly modify their own instructional delivery through the use of targeted self-observation.
BRIDGET SWEET is an Associate Professor of Music Education at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. After completing her Bachelors Degree in Music Education at Western Michigan University, Dr. Sweet enjoyed a successful tenure as a middle school choir teacher for nearly ten years. Her interests in adolescent music education intensified during her Masters and Doctoral programs in Music Education at Michigan State University, which contributed to her research focused on characteristics of effective and exemplary middle-level music teachers. Prior to her work at the University of Illinois, Dr. Sweet was Assistant Professor of Music Education at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Sweet teaches music education pedagogy, including choral methods and literature, middle-level general music methods, graduate courses in music education, as well as a course focused on the development of healthy practices for all musicians. She is earning licensure to be a Body Mapping Instructor through the Association for Body Mapping Education.
Dr. Sweet continues to work extensively with adolescent singers as a teacher, clinician, and conductor; she has been invited to conduct middle and high school All-State Choirs and Honors Choirs in many states. Dr. Sweet wrote the books Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond (2016, Oxford University Press) and Thinking Outside the Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change in Music Education (2020, Oxford University Press). Dr. Sweet’s research interests include middle level choral music education, female and male adolescent voice change, empowering music educators, health and wellness, and intersections of diversity and the music classroom. Her research has appeared in publications of Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Choral Journal, International Journal of Music Education: Research, Journal of Research in Music Education and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. She authored the chapter “Qualitative Choral Music Research” in The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education (2014). Dr. Sweet was initiated as a Friend of the Arts to the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity (2021). She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Bulletin of the Council of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Research in Choral Music, Journal of Research in Music Education, and Qualitative Research in Music Education.
- Dr. Jo Ann Miller, Director of Choral Activities
- Dr. Warren Olfert, Director of Bands
- Dr. Michael Weber, Associate Director of Choral Activities
- Dr. Kelly Burns, Assistant Professor of Music
- Dr. Karisa Templeton, Assistant Professor of Music
Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes
OBJECTIVES:
1. Develop advanced teaching strategies in instrumental, choral or elementary music education through symposium course offerings.
a. Offerings in instrumental will include literature and rehearsal techniques.
b. Offerings in choral will include literature and rehearsal techniques.
c. Offerings in elementary will include Orff and Kodály sequential lesson planning techniques.
2. The purpose of the symposium is to provide current teachers advanced training in instructional techniques. Students will select classes from course offerings, which will benefit their professional development within their specialization.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
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All required materials will be provided.
"I REALLY ENJOYED THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE GUIDED DISCUSSIONS WITH OTHER DIRECTORS FROM THE AREA. I LEFT WITH NEW IDEAS AND PERSPECTIVES THAT I AM EXCITED TO BRING INTO THE CLASSROOM! JOE'S SESSIONS WERE VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE THEY REMINDED ME WHY I WENT INTO THIS CAREER IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY ALSO HELPED REMIND ME ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS."
"REALLY ENJOYED COLLABORATING WITH COLLEGUES."
"LOVED, LOVED, LOVED THE GUEST ARTISTS. I FELT I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THEM; THEY WERE VERY EFFECTIVE IN THEIR TEACHING STRATEGIES, AND I FEEL I HAVE WALKED AWAY WITH A GIANT TOOLBOX FOR TEACHING THIS SCHOOL YEAR."
"LOVED TO GATHER WITH LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS TO HAVE PROFESSIONAL DISCUSSIONS."
"EXCELLENT INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS - WELL PLANNED SYMPOSIUM. THANK YOU TO THE NDSU MUSIC STAFF FOR BRINGING IN AMAZING, NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED NAMES IN MUSIC EDUCATION!"
"I FOUND THIS SYMPOSIUM WELL-ORGANIZED, INFORMATIVE AND INSPIRING, FULL OF HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES TO TAKE TO THE CLASSROOM. THANK YOU SO MUCH!"
The Symposium will be held face-2-face AND/OR remotely.
For more information, https://www.ndsu.edu/performingarts/music/festivals-and-clinics/music-ed-symposium/.
Online registration URL will close @ 5:00 p.m. August 8, 2022.
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