Lesson Planning & Curriculum Development – #musedchat (9/15/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleReaching Our Most Difficult Students – #musedchat (9/22/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleMusic Education & The Voice: Week 1
Music Education & The Voice is a weekly recap of the popular NBC singing competition, The Voice. Each Thursday, Nick Jaworski and his guests will examine the show from a variety of philosophical,...
View ArticleDeconstructing “The Voice”: Week 2
Welcome back to week two of my newly retitled ”Deconstructing The Voice” recap series. Each week, I’ll watch all 37 hours of NBC’s hit vocal competition show, The Voice. Then, in addition to typical...
View ArticleThe Value of Field Trips in Music Education – #musedchat (9/29/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleTeaching Composition – #musedchat (10/6/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleDeconstructing “The Voice”: Week 3
Welcome to Week Three of “Deconstructing The Voice”, a non-academic attempt to understand what the popular NBC show says about music, teaching, taste, and the impact of constructing a robot that...
View ArticleCompetition & Music Education – Deconstructing “The Voice” (Week 4)
Note: Be on the lookout for our interview with The Voice contestant, Matt McAndrew! Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ to get all of our coverage on The Voice. Welcome to the...
View ArticleThe Voice’s Matt McAndrew Talks Music & Education
This week, instead of a full recap, we’re chatting with a contestant from Season 7 of The Voice, Matt McAndrew. I talked about Matt in a previous recap because he is one of the only contestants on...
View ArticleUnderstanding Music with Musical Forms
“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It’s difficult to argue with Goethe – and not only because he was Beethoven’s friend. A basic understanding...
View ArticleTaylor Swift, Music Education, and Self-Doubt – The Voice, Week 6
Welcome back to Week 6 of “Deconstructing The Voice” – my weekly attempt to unlock the secrets of Carson Daly. (Maybe it was something in the water during his TRL days.) I interviewed The Voice...
View ArticleMusic Advocacy – #musedchat (11/10/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleMusic Teacher Health – #musedchat (11/3/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleListening Activities and Skills – #musedchat (11/17/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleMusic Teacher Evaluations – #musedchat (11/24/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleProgramming Sacred Music – #musedchat 12/1/14
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleThe New Frontier: Secondary Project-Based General Music
“General music” often conjures up images of elementary school students singing, playing various instruments, and moving to music, all while learning music fundamentals, music history and developing...
View ArticleEffective Collaboration Between Music and Other Subjects – #musedchat (12/8/14)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleCurrent Perceptions of Music Education in Society – #musedchat (1/12/15)
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
View ArticleReimagining the Large Ensemble – #musedchat 1/19/15
What is #musedchat? Each Monday evening on Twitter, music teachers get together and share ideas about important topics within music education. It’s a great chance to interact directly with educators...
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