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MUSIC TEACHER EDUCATION DIVISION Joseph Manfredo, Vice President


Collaboration and Clinical Experiences for the Pre-Service Teacher All-State Conference 2011


Guest Speaker–Colleen Conway


One significant change implemented for the Music Teacher Education division at this year’s conference was the selec- tion process for presenters. Tis year our division collaborated with three IMEA Special Areas, Research, Mentorship and ICMEA, to determine the present- ers for the IMEA state conference. Tis allowed us to shape our portion of the conference through the focus upon one critical topic, mentorship, for those look- ing for a more thorough understanding of related issues. However, it also allowed us to bring a variety of interesting topics without duplicating efforts.


Tis year’s presenters have a wealth of experience in all areas and levels of music instruction. David Snyder, Profes- sor of Music Education at Illinois State University, will be our first presenter on Tursday afternoon discussing teacher personality. Friday morning will begin with a session led by Phil Hash, As- sistant Professor of Music Education at Calvin College (MI). Many of us remember Phil as an outstanding band director in the Joliet area. Kim McCord, Associate Professor of Music Education at Illinois State University, will lead an important session dealing with Collabo- ration and Assessment. Please encourage your undergraduate students to attend Jon Noworyta’s session on “Surviving Student Teaching.” Richard Cangro, Assistant Professor of Music Educa- tion at Western Illinois University, will present a session entitled “How do you know they are learning.” We will sponsor two Saturday morning sessions that will also be interesting for our undergraduate students. Nicholas Conner and Stephen Meyer will present an interesting ses- sion entitled “Tat Wasn’t in the Book!: Lessons from our first years.” Te final session for the 2011 conference will be another joint presentation by Neal Smith of Millikin University and Tom Miller, who teaches band and orchestra in Decatur.


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Once again, the MTE Division and the Research Special Area will co-sponsor a guest speaker. We are pleased to an- nounce that Colleen Conway, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Music Education at Te University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has accepted our invitation. Her schol- arly interests include instrumental music education, pre-service music teacher education, mentoring and induction of beginning music teachers, and profes- sional development of music teachers. She presents regularly at state, national and international conferences (including MENC, Te Midwest Clinic, AERA, and ISME) and has published over 60 articles in all of the major music educa- tion journals.


Colleen will present two sessions that will be of special interests to our divi- sion. Her first session will be on Friday afternoon and it is entitled Te Role of Teacher Education in Supporting First year Teachers. On Saturday morning her session on Te Publishing Process in Music Education: Lessons from the Field will be of special interest for all of us, as well as our graduate students.


Announcements


Presiders for MTE sessions at the 2011 conference are needed. Due to the large number of sessions, as well as in the spirit of getting more people involved in our division’s activities, I am seeking volunteers to serve as presiders at MTE events. Please email me if you are inter- ested in serving as a presenter.


I will soon come to the last year of my last term as Vice President of the MTE Division. Tis spring we will need to have a minimum of two nominees for the position of Vice President-Elect of MTE. Te VP-Elect position works in collaboration with me during the final year of my term. I hope we will have


several individuals interested in this position. I have found it to be a very re- warding experience. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for further information about the duties of the position.


National String Project Consortium (NSPC)


Te IMEA State Board continues to ad- dress the “Four C’s” of the Partnership for 21st


Century Skills (see www.p21.org).


Tis organization, as well as the national MENC office, is promoting educators to address key learning and innovation skills, including critical thinking, com- munication, creativity and collaboration. Te music teacher education profession needs to examine these “Four C’s” and determine how they can be implemented into the undergraduate music education curriculum. Undergraduate students will need new and different skills that address the challenges in the classroom they will face due to a more diverse population of students. To support such skill development pre-service teachers (PSTs) will not only need more practice, but innovative field experiences that can address these issues. In this article, I will discuss a unique clinical experi- ences program that uses collaboration to provide authentic and effective teaching experiences for PSTs.


As the new coordinator of music education at Illinois State University, I discovered that our School of Music has the only chapter of the National String Project Consortium (NSPC) in Illinois. Tis consortium is a coalition of String Project sites held in various colleges and universities throughout the United States. Te Consortium was originally formed in 1998 through the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). However, it is now an independent organization working as an affiliate of ASTA.


Te goals of the NSPC are focused on two ideals: 1) to increase the number of children playing string instruments and


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