Project-based learning in music teacher education
Presentation
Overview
Overview
Description
Music teacher educators have been challenged to quickly adapt, change, and innovate their teaching practices in the age of COVID-19. This has had significant impacts on the modus of instruction, the methods and approaches for teaching instruments, and the experiences of teachers and students across the US. It continues to reshape a significant portion of how teacher educators’ function in contemporary society. For music teacher educators who hold a readiness to embrace the digital confluence of instructional models outside the traditional teacher-let ideologies using technology, an opportunity for innovation and creativity has unfolded. This session will outline how two undergraduate music education students, particularly ‘traditionally trained’ musicians, navigated a project-based learning curriculum in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each student was facilitated by their college supervisor in ways that supported their individual learning needs in the popular music milieu. Participants of this session will learn how creative and student-led projects were developed and tailored to support student’s individual creativity and instrumental needs, as they wrote songs, learned technique on guitar, performed popular music, and taught songs by ear using guitars and online recording studios. This session will explore student perceptions of learning through this modus, while celebrating their development of creativity in music outside the Western-European art music common throughout their undergraduate music coursework. Implications for the future of music teacher education and opportunity for discussion will offer tools and resources for those in attendance.
