college & university Continued from page 18
As music teacher education programs across the state (and indeed, across the United States) navigate new licensing policies and move away from external models of teaching and learning like the edTPA,4
it is important to remember that
student voices are key to designing alter- native assessments in higher education that are truly by music educators and for music educators. As Brophy explains, “Music is a complex, multidimensional human experience. The assessment of music learning must reflect those char- acteristics.”5
Thus, while I believe that
developing new assessments of music teacher readiness will be challenging, I see no one better equipped to facilitate inquiry-based assessments than the local music teacher educators across the state within their respective communities of music teaching and learning. By doing so, we may begin to imagine a world of
music education built on principles of em- pathy, compassion, and belonging instead of content, objectives, and high stakes. By doing so, we can reduce the amount of time that we spend on questions like, “How are you going to pass,” and instead, spend more time asking questions like, “How are you?”
Notes:
1. Potter, D. (2020). Music Teacher Education and edTPA: A Case Study. Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database (UMI No. 28024538).
2. In 2019, I was asked to develop this document for Shelby County Schools in Tennessee. https://drive.
google.com/file/d/11ajJpnY3y- wMfy684ebr7j7k1RdHaNV1/ view?usp=sharing.
3. Wisconsin Department of Educa- tion. (2017). Wisconsin Standards
for Music: General Music Strand and Performance Music Strand. Retrieved July 15, 2021 from
https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/ files/imce/fine-arts/WIStdMUSIC_ Poster_11X17.pdf.
4. Wisconsin Department of Educa- tion. (2020). Wisconsin edTPA. Retrieved July 15, 2021 from
https://dpi.wi.gov/licensing/epp/ edtpa.
5. Brophy, T. (2019). Assessment in Music Education: The State of the Art. In T. Brophy (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evalua- tion Policy and Practice in Music Education, (Vol. 2, pp. 903–931). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
David Potter is the assistant professor/coor- dinator of music education at UW-Superior. Email:
dpotter1@uwsuper.edu
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