ENGAGING MUSICAL PRACTICES A SCB

Whether you are a pre-service, newly-hired, or veteran elementary general music teacher, Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook on Elementary General Music offers a fresh perspective on topics that cut across all interactions with K-5th grade music learners. Chapter authors share their expertise and provide strategies, ideas, and resources to immediately apply their topics; guiding focus on inclusive, social, active, and musically-engaging elementary general music practices.

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Suzanne L. Burton, Ph.D., is Professor of Music Education, Director of Graduate Studies, and Program Director of Music Education at the University of Delaware where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and advises student research. She specializes in music development from early childhood through adolescence with scholarly interests in music literacy as well as music teacher preparation and professional development. Alison M. Reynolds, Ph.D., is associate professor of music education, Presser Center for Research and Creativity in Music, in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. Her scholarship, teaching, and service focus on policy/advocacy, research, curriculum development, socially interactive music learning and development among learners from at least birth through 12 years of age, and guiding research and practice among preservice and in-service music teachers and future music teacher educators.

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Foreword Diane Persellin Preface Alison M. Reynolds Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Beginnings Elizabeth Cassidy Parker Chapter 2: Active Listening for a Lifetime of Music Understanding and Enjoyment Kimberly Inks Chapter 3: Development and Pedagogy of Children¿s Singing Joanne Rutkowski Chapter 4: Engaging Movement Practices for Young Musicians: Four Perspectives Wendy H. Valerio Chapter 5: Teaching Multicultural Folk Dances Karen Howard Chapter 6: Musical Engagement through Classroom Instruments Julie Scott Chapter 7: Audiation-Based Improvisation and Composition in Elementary General Music Heather Nelson Shouldice Chapter 8: Sound, Syllables, and Symbols: A Process Approach to Music Literacy Suzanne L. Burton Chapter 9: Making Informed Technology Choices for Elementary General Music Classrooms Kerry B. Renzoni Chapter 10: Working with Music from Around the World Lisa Lehmberg Chapter 11: Inclusion in the Elementary General Music Classroom: Teaching Students with Special Needs While Creating a Bridge Between Music Education and Music Therapy Cynthia M. Colwell Chapter 12: National Core Arts Standards: Spark Plugs for Engagement, Understanding, Retention, and Transfer of Learning in Elementary School General Music Sandra Nicolucci Chapter 13: Getting to Know Our Students: Assessment in the Elementary General Music Classroom Cynthia Crump Taggart Chapter 14: Classroom Management: Strategies for a Student-Centered Approach Katie Wolf Martinenza Chapter 15: Professional Development for the Elementary General Music Teacher Ann Marie Stanley About the Editors About the Authors