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Finding Future Music Educators:Back to the Future
Music Teacher Education: Partnership and Process 1987
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Four Primary Topics
Recruitment, Selection, and Retention: Choosing Music Educators for the Next Century
Teacher Certification Programs: The Process of Developing Music Educators
Professional Development Programs: Planning for Career Growth
Music Teacher Educators: Partners in Music Teacher Education
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“This report calls for a renewed effort by the partnership in music teacher education to identify and recruit the best available candidates for careers in teaching music. It calls for closer scrutiny of the standards on which potential teachers are evaluated and it places the search to attract music teachers for the next century as a high priority for the members of the partnership.” (p. 21)
1987 Proposals
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Recruitment will need to be undertaken aggressively inthe nation’s secondary schoolscollege departments or schools of music
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Each member of the partnership will need to be responsible foridentifying potential teachersconfirming their potential for success in
teaching with other partnership membersencouraging these students to seek a career in
music teaching
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Profile of Teacher Attributes
Personal
Intellectual
Musical
Instructional
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Selection process Traditional process: audition, standardized tests
scores, HS class rank, letters of recommendation, theory/history diagnostic test
Supplement with an interview with the music education faculty examining personal, intellectual, and instructional traits, etc.
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Retention issues “Standards for student progress in teacher
certification should be determined.” (p. 25)The standards movement of the 90s certainly
addressed this objectiveAll of the suggestions emphasized tiered selection
rather than ways to “remediate and retain”Catch 22: higher standards v. the need for more
teachers
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Where Are We Now?
Balance of supply and demand in late 90s http://www.menc.org/information/advocate/supply.htmlThe American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE) has issued its twenty-third annual study of teacher supply and demand (1999). While both the AAEE and the National Center for Education Statistics reported a "great demand" for all teachers across the country (according to 1998 data), the national averages for music teachers show that there appears to be a balanced supply and demand for them. This may not be the case on a regional level, however; differences in population demographics and regional economics skew the need for music teachers in different areas of the country.
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Where Are We Now?
Kimpton address at 2004 MENC Pre-Session (see Spring 2005 JMTE)
In 2000 we produced about 3,600 newly certified music education undergraduates, for about 9,000 vacancies (Hickey, 2002).
In 2001 we produced 3,897 new undergraduates in music education for about 11,000 vacancies (Lindemann, 2002).
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Where Are We Now?
“Recent figures from The American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE) report that only about 60 percent of those earning degrees in education actually take a teaching job—which means that 40% of new teachers never step foot in a classroom.”
“Furthermore, of those who do choose to teach, 30 to 50 percent will remain in teaching for less than five years, even less in urban schools (AAEE, 2001).”
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Where Are We Now?
Shortages began appearing in 2000Iowa http://www.iowacollegeaid.org/loans/teachershortagedocs/teacher_shortages_list.htm
Wisconsin Supply rating of 2.05 on a 5 point scale (1 being severe shortage)Average of 66 emergency licenses in music per year since 2000
Strings24% of string positions went unfilled in 1999-200043% of school districts with string programs had string positions that
were unfilled in 2000-2001
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Where Are We Now?
At least 20 states report a shortage of music teachers Retirements
Oklahoma In 2005, 28% of MS art/music teachers and 27% of
HS art/music teachers are eligible to retire Will need to hire: 139 MS 402 HS www.okhighered.org/studies-reports/ teach-supply/conclusions-recommendations.pdf
ASTA With looming retirements (20%), there may be 5000 string teacher openings
in the next 3-4 yearshttp://www.pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/arts/may02.shtm
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Where Are We Now?
March 2002 Letter from NASM Exec Board to Music Teacher Educators“serious shortage of music teachers”“critical matter facing the entire field of music”
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Solutions?
The Focus of this Symposium: re-examine and re-commit
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Friday AM Sessions
AN INVESTIGATION OF ATTRACTOR AND FACILITATOR VARIABLES’ INFLUENCE ON
PRESERVICE TEACHER’S DECISIONS TO TEACH MUSIC Steven N. Kelly Center for Music Research
Florida State University
Influence of specific variables on undergraduate music education majors’ decisions to pursue music education as an occupation.
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Friday AM Sessions
DEVELOPING FUTURE MUSIC EDUCATORS WITHIN THE
SCHOOL OF MUSIC Colleen Conway Robert Culver
Herbert Marshall Betty Anne Younker University of Michigan
Addresses how potential music educators within a School of Music are identified, and the issue of appropriate musicianship and skill level on
an instrument or voice for various degree programs.
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Friday AM Sessions
STUDENT CAREER PERCEPTION: 6th-11th GRADE MUSIC STUDENTS’ ASESSMENT OF SELF-EFFICACY, SOCIAL
PERCEPTION, AND POTENTIAL ENJOYMENT FOR MUSIC EDUCATION AND OTHER POSSIBLE CAREERS
Dr. Kimberly H. Councill Susquehanna University
Assess and compare pre-college students’ self-efficacy, social perception, and potential enjoyment of possible careers across numerous
disciplines, including four education-related careers.
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Friday AM Sessions
THINKING BEYOND TEACHER DEMAND AND ATTRITION: ARE WE RECRUITING THE “BEST AND BRIGHTEST” TO
MUSIC EDUCATION? James R. Austin University of
Colorado at Boulder
Focuses on the issue of recruiting and admitting quality music education applicants
Finding Future Music Educators