Jim Dan Hill Library: Music: Teaching Music

Music Teaching Professional Organizations and Journals

Music Teachers National Association
"For well over a century, MTNA has been the backbone for a collaborative community of music-teaching professionals, connecting both the seasoned educator and those at the beginning of their career."
National Association for Music Education
"NAfME is a collaborative community that supports music educators and advocates for equitable access to music education."
Dalcroze Society of America
From the website: "Dalcroze Education is a playful, experiential approach to teaching and learning music. It is a process for awakening, developing, and refining innate musicality through rhythmic movement (often called eurhythmics), ear-training, and improvisation."
Organization of American Kodály Educators
From the website: "Inspired by the vision of Zoltán Kodály, the mission of the Organization of American Kodály Educators is to support music education of the highest quality, promote universal music literacy and lifelong music making, and preserve the musical heritage of the people of the United States of America through education, artistic performance, advocacy and research."
American Orff-Schulwerk
Per the website, "Releasing creativity that extends far beyond the music classroom, Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman conceived an approach to building musicianship in every learner through the integration of music, movement, speech, and drama."

Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education
"ACT publishes refereed and invited critical, analytical, theoretical, and policy development articles of international interest that illuminate, extend or challenge the Action Ideals of the MayDay Group. Research based in and across a variety of disciplinary perspectives is thus encouraged and welcomed: e.g., education, music, philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, curriculum. Frequency of issues is determined by submissions, approvals and technical preparation."
The American Music Teacher
Published by the Music Teachers National Association. The website's description states: "Since 1951, American Music Teacher has led the way by providing articles, reviews and regular columns that inform, educate and challenge music teachers and foster excellence in the music teaching profession"
Journal of Music Teacher Education
(Note - many articles [though not all] are available via Open Access)
"The Journal of Music Teacher Education (JMTE), a peer-reviewed online research journal, focuses on issues related to music teacher education."
College Music Symposium
Call Number: via JSTOR
Catalog Description: "Includes select articles from early print print issues, full current issues, and additional multimedia content such as: Video lectures, performances and lecture recitals; and an audio performance archive. A conference archive is also included."

Music Therapy Fact Sheets
Includes (but is not limited to) fact sheets on Music Therapy & Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); Music Therapy in Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health; Music Therapy in Special Education
Kindermusik - Professional Development [Pre-K]
From the website: "Whether you’d like to freshen up your teaching approach as a group, gain insights individually and at your own pace, or revisit your Kindermusik Kits with product training, we have a solution for you. Our sessions are engaging, accessible, and results-driven!"
Breathe for Change
The website asserts the following: "The world’s only Mindfulness, SEL, and Yoga Teacher Training created by educators for educators"

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