THE NEW JERSEY MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION a federated state association of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION News From Our Division Chairs
Early Childhood Education Amy Burns
973-493-5797
aburns@fhcds.org
I hope that you all enjoyed the recent NJMEA conference this past February. One of the reasons I love attending our state conference is
because it rejuvenates me. I adore listening to and learning from other music educators and seeing how they are enhancing their teaching tech- niques in their elementary and early childhood music classrooms. That is why I am so passionate about having webinars for elementary music educators to easily access at any time of the day, from the convenience of their classroom or their own home. For the months of September and October, I gave a webinar about the “10 Organizational Apps for Elementary Music Educators.” For the months of November and December, Jenny Amaya from MusicFirst (
musicfirst.com) gave a webinar about their elementary cloud-based music programs. For the months of January and February, Catie Dwinal from Quaver Music (
www.quavermusic.com) gave a webinar about their curriculum. In addition, Daniel Beal, elementary music educator from Lawrenceville Elementary School, gave a webinar about iPads and Jamhub. This month, elementary educa- tors can access a webinar about Silver Burdett’s program: “Online Learning Exchange™ InteractiveMusic” powered by Silver Burdett. There are more webinars coming, so please keep an eye out for announcements on the NJMEA Facebook page and TEMPO Express. If you would like access to a previous webinar, please contact me. Finally, in the January TEMPO article titled, “Amazing Day at the NJSMA’s John Feierabend Workshop,” John’s name was misspelled in the title and in the article. When I wrote the article, I worked diligently at making sure to spell his name correctly and had one of the organizers of the event proof it for me. However, during the process of publishing, I did not cross check the spelling of his name and I take responsibility for the errors. My deepest apologies to John Feierabend, as he is a great music educator and his publications are exceptional and staples to those who teach music.
Guitar Education Thomas Amoriello
tom@tomamoriello.com 908-342-7795
Please spread the word and mark your calendars for April 16, 2016 as this will be the NJMEA Guitar Festival at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ which will feature the chosen students as well as featured guest artist for performance and master class with the Atlantic Guitar Quartet. We need to have student and teacher participation on many levels. Please consider volunteering your time to help as an adjudicator, sectional coach, and other festival duties. Otherwise this will be unsuccessful! Please feel free to share any classroom guitar news with
tamoriel@frsd.k12.nj.us
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