Finding Future Music Educators: Back to the Future

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)

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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

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