THE NEW JERSEY MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION a federated state association of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION News From Our Division Chairs Praxis II All music teacher candidates must take the Praxis II: Music Content Knowledge Exam and earn a minimum passing score of 153.
Successful Completion of EdTPA EdTPA is a teaching performance assessment which was developed at Stanford University and is administered by Pearson. The assessment
focuses on three major tasks: planning, instruction, and assessment. Task 1: Teacher candidates submit a portfolio that includes a sequence of lessons they have designed around a central focus and narrative responses to prompts associated with each task. The prompts require can- didates to think critically and reflectively about their teaching practices and the learning needs of their students. Task 2, Instruction, requires special attention because teacher candidates must submit two, ten minute videos of their teaching. The teacher candidates must obtain signed video consent permission forms from parents/legal guardians of the students to be videoed. The 2017-2018 academic year marks the first time that teacher candidates in New Jersey are required to complete EdTPA for certification. Beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year, candidates will have to meet a cut score (TBD by the NJDOE) on the EdTPA in order to be certified.
Changes to Student Teaching Changes to teacher certification have been linked with the term, “full year student teaching.” This is not the case. The regulations simply
require students to complete 175 hours of clinical practice prior to the student teaching experience, with at least 100 of those hours occurring in the semester immediately preceding student teaching. On average, this means that students will have 1-2 full days of field experience per week in the two semesters that precede student teaching.
Early Childhood Education Amy Burns
aburns@fhcds.org
There are numerous upcoming professional development opportunities for elementary and early childhood music educators. The Febru-
ary NJMEA conference is full of amazing presenters for this grade level. In addition, NJAIS will host a “Seesaw Training for Specialists” at Far Hills Country Day School on Friday, January 26, 2018 form 9:00-2:30 pm run by my colleague and me (to register go to: https://www.
njais.org/cf_forms/view.cfm?formID=249). The NJSMA Elementary Division is holding two more workshops this year: “It’s Elementary, My Dear” on February 10, 2018, co-sponsored by NJYC, and the “Elementary Choral Celebration” at Drew University on May 22, 2018. For those who want to make these PD workshops but cannot, check out the numerous free online webinars for elementary and early childhood music educators. These webinars are currently about technology integration. They feature how to utilize Seesaw in the elementary music classroom, icebreakers for the elementary music classroom, how to flip the music classroom using technology, and assessment in the elementary music classroom. These webinars can be found at
http://amymburns.com/webinars. NJMEA/NAfME members earn PD credits for watching these webinars, writing a summary about it, and answering the question at the end of the webinar.
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