Music In Our Schools Month News Gloria Pasle, MIOSM Chair
Hello Fellow Music Educators
I am your new MMEA “Music In Our Schools” Chairperson for the next two school years. My educational and work background is as follows: I have a B.M.E. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, M.M. from Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville and Ed.M. and Ed.D. in Educational Administration (emphasis Policy Analysis) from Columbia University, New York. I have worked in various school districts, namely, the Board of Education in New York, Normandy School District in St. Louis, and currently Ferguson-Florissant School District in St. Louis, both before and after my hiatus to New York to pursue the doctorate degree. My certification is K-12 vocal music, and I currently teach general music in the K-6 elementary school setting.
I hope that your summer was exactly what it needed to be for you. Relaxing, eventful, educational—whatever fits the bill. My summer was educational. In June, after two intensive weeks of moving, dancing, creating, and writing lessons, I received my Level III Orff Schulwerk certification at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In July, along with the Fine Arts Director and 5 other teachers from Ferguson Florissant, I attended a four- day Arts Integration Seminar conducted by COCA with instructors from the Kennedy
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Center in Washington, D.C. At both venues, I learned many new avenues through which to approach students with music education. I also learned through the arts integration seminar how to “think out of the box” regarding the arts. I learned to merge and fuse life into academic subjects; the same life and vitality that the fine arts subjects already have. Reviewing this material was truly a refresher course for me. The theme of my doctoral dissertation was the principal’s role in the administration of an arts integration program. I actually had the opportunity to examine various schools on the east coast of the U.S., which had arts integration programs brought into their schools. The programs were ushered in either through arts organizations or individual arts alliance programs. I examined how the arts, integrated into the academics, improves the learning abilities of students in secondary as well as elementary schools. For example, I observed the lesson planning of two diverse instructors, a calculus and a ballet teacher, at the secondary level, on how to teach a calculus formula through dance movements. I was never a calculus fan in high school and watching these two teachers plan how students could achieve math ideas through the merging of dance and math together was fascinating.
Now, we’re back at school. I hope that what you did over the summer left you relaxed, refreshed, energized and ready to begin the school year with gusto. No matter what level you teach, whether secondary or elementary, please keep in mind that “music in our schools” for any month is always important. Hopefully, you have started to formulate ideas about how you want to feature music always and, particularly, for the month of March 2017. These ideas are not only to be carried out by just you and your students. Try to get the entire staff involved and maybe the parents, if possible. I hope to see you all at the 2017 “The Language of Music” Missouri Music Educators Conference in January 2017. As always, there will be many helpful music educators as well as clinicians to help you along in your teaching journey this year and for years to come. You will also hear great student bands, orchestras and choirs to please your eyes and ears. Hopefully, these clinicians, music educators, and musical groups will get your creative juices flowing. Once your juices are flowing, you can get many ideas, return to your individual schools and implement these great ideas for display in “Music in Our Schools.” Think about it!
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