MUS 316: Teaching Children Music N-9 - fall

Prerequisite: MUS 114 or instructor permission

General Education requirement: Cultural & Artistic Literacy

Second of a four-course sequence presenting foundational concepts and skills in music education needed for an initial music teaching license in Massachusetts. Students will critically engage with foundational ideologies and methods in the context of elementary music, secondary general music, and ensemble instruction. Further, students will analyze national, state, and district-based standards, begin developing evidence-based music-teaching practices, and explore current thought and practice on anti-racist, culturally sustaining, social and emotional, accessible, and inclusive pedagogies. Twenty hours of observation in school or community-based music education are required. This course is for music majors only. Non-majors may be considered upon instructor permission.