Finding Future Music Educators: Back to the Future

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Finding Future Music EducatorsBack to the Future

• Music Teacher Education Partnership and Process
  1987

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Four Primary Topics

• Recruitment, Selection, and Retention
  Choosing Music Educators for the Next Century
• Teacher Certification Programs
  The Process of Developing Music Educators
• Professional Development Programs
  Planning for Career Growth
• Music Teacher Educators
  Partners in Music Teacher Education

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1987 Proposals

• This report calls for a renewed effort by the
  partnership in music teacher education to
  identify and recruit the best available
  candidates for careers in teaching music. It
  calls for closer scrutiny of the standards on
  which potential teachers are evaluated and it
  places the search to attract music teachers for
  the next century as a high priority for the
  members of the partnership. (p. 21)

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1987 Proposals

• Recruitment will need to be undertaken
  aggressively in
• the nations secondary schools
• college departments or schools of music

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1987 Proposals

• Each member of the partnership will need to be
  responsible for
• identifying potential teachers
• confirming their potential for success in
  teaching with other partnership members
• encouraging these students to seek a career in
  music teaching

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1987 Proposals

• Profile of Teacher Attributes
• Personal
• Intellectual
• Musical
• Instructional

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1987 Proposals

• Selection process
• Traditional process audition, standardized tests
  scores, HS class rank, letters of recommendation,
  theory/history diagnostic test
• Supplement with an interview with the music
  education faculty examining personal,
  intellectual, and instructional traits, etc.

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1987 Proposals

• Retention issues
• Standards for student progress in teacher
  certification should be determined. (p. 25)
• The standards movement of the 90s certainly
  addressed this objective
• All of the suggestions emphasized tiered
  selection rather than ways to remediate and
  retain
• Catch 22 higher standards v. the need for more
  teachers

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Where Are We Now?

• Balance of supply and demand in late 90s
  http//www.menc.org/information/advocate/supply.ht
  ml
• The American Association for Employment in
  Education (AAEE) has issued its twenty-third
  annual study of teacher supply and demand (1999).
  While both the AAEE and the National Center for
  Education Statistics reported a "great demand"
  for all teachers across the country (according to
  1998 data), the national averages for music
  teachers show that there appears to be a balanced
  supply and demand for them. This may not be the
  case on a regional level, however differences in
  population demographics and regional economics
  skew the need for music teachers in different
  areas of the country.

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Where Are We Now?

• Kimpton address at 2004 MENC Pre-Session (see
  Spring 2005 JMTE)
• In 2000 we produced about 3,600 newly certified
  music education undergraduates, for about 9,000
  vacancies (Hickey, 2002).
• In 2001 we produced 3,897 new undergraduates in
  music education for about 11,000 vacancies
  (Lindemann, 2002).

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Where Are We Now?

• Recent figures from The American Association for
  Employment in Education (AAEE) report that only
  about 60 percent of those earning degrees in
  education actually take a teaching jobwhich
  means that 40 of new teachers never step foot in
  a classroom.
• Furthermore, of those who do choose to teach, 30
  to 50 percent will remain in teaching for less
  than five years, even less in urban schools
  (AAEE, 2001).

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Where Are We Now?

• Shortages began appearing in 2000
• Iowa http//www.iowacollegeaid.org/loans/teachersh
  ortagedocs/teacher_shortages_list.htm
• Wisconsin
• Supply rating of 2.05 on a 5 point scale (1 being
  severe shortage)
• Average of 66 emergency licenses in music per
  year since 2000
• Strings
• 24 of string positions went unfilled in
  1999-2000
• 43 of school districts with string programs had
  string positions that were unfilled in 2000-2001

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Where Are We Now?

• At least 20 states report a shortage of music
  teachers
• Retirements
• Oklahoma
• In 2005, 28 of MS art/music teachers and 27 of
  HS
  art/music teachers are eligible to retire
• Will need to hire 139 MS 402 HS
• www.okhighered.org/studies-reports/
  teach-supply/conclusions-recommendations.pdf
• ASTA
• With looming retirements (20), there may be 5000
  string teacher openings in
  the next 3-4 years http//www.pbs.org/teachersou
  rce/whats_new/arts/may02.shtm

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Where Are We Now?

• March 2002 Letter from NASM Exec Board to Music
  Teacher Educators
• serious shortage of music teachers
• critical matter facing the entire field of
  music

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Solutions?

• The Focus of this Symposium
  re-examine and re-commit

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Friday AM Sessions

• AN INVESTIGATION OF ATTRACTOR AND FACILITATOR
  VARIABLES INFLUENCE ON PRESERVICE TEACHERS
  DECISIONS TO TEACH MUSIC
  Steven N. Kelly
  
  Center for Music Research
  Florida
  State University
• Influence of specific variables on undergraduate
  music education majors decisions to pursue music
  education as an occupation.

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Friday AM Sessions

• DEVELOPING FUTURE MUSIC EDUCATORS WITHIN THE
  SCHOOL OF MUSIC
  Colleen Conway  Robert
  Culver 
  Herbert Marshall  Betty Anne Younker 
  University of Michigan
• Addresses how potential music educators within a
  School of Music are identified, and the issue of
  appropriate musicianship and skill level on an
  instrument or voice for various degree programs.

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Friday AM Sessions

• STUDENT CAREER PERCEPTION 6th-11th GRADE MUSIC
  STUDENTS ASESSMENT OF SELF-EFFICACY, SOCIAL
  PERCEPTION, AND POTENTIAL ENJOYMENT FOR MUSIC
  EDUCATION AND OTHER POSSIBLE CAREERS
  Dr. Kimberly H. Councill
  
  Susquehanna University
• Assess and compare pre-college students
  self-efficacy, social perception, and potential
  enjoyment of possible careers across numerous
  disciplines, including four education-related
  careers.

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Friday AM Sessions

• THINKING BEYOND TEACHER DEMAND AND ATTRITION ARE
  WE RECRUITING THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST TO MUSIC
  EDUCATION?
  James R. Austin
  University of
  Colorado at Boulder
• Focuses on the issue of recruiting and admitting
  quality music
  education applicants

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