Welcome
This website is part of an ongoing project from the MSBOA Music Education Committee. This group of music educators meets twice each year to discuss music education related topics and to create and compile resources for school instrumental music directors.
Directors are encouraged to visit the Music Education Workshop Committee website regularly. Resources are updated periodically throughout the year, including meeting minutes and the results of surveys that were sent out to the membership. If you have suggestions or concerns for the Music Education Workshop Committee, please contact your district representative.
Updates from the Committee
9/7/19 Meeting Summary:
Basic Music List Reference Guide (Band)
Basic Music List Reference Guide (Band)
- Instructions how to fill out the Google Sheets
- Designed to be edited and filled in by membership
- Organized by title, composer, key signature, time signature, measures, tempo, instrumentation, minimum number of percussion, and difficulty
- Available on website
- MSBOA University mentorship letter composed to be sent to accredited university’s music education professors so that music education students and pre-service teachers are familiar with MSBOA before they begin their first year teaching
- Mentor program – letter to district presidents and/or mentor chairs and tap into use of mentor handbook
- Work assignments for solo and ensemble – reviewed and revamped District 4 documents and reach out to S&E VP’s
- Created an extensive list of band and orchestra pieces that are multicultural in nature
- Available on website
- Hope to later notate which pieces are on basic list
- Edited and revamped information
- Updated with the above information
- Will link to Music Ed website each issue
- Will feature something that the Music Ed committee has worked on in each issue
- Created questionnaire to be sent to teacher of year nominees so that one teacher can be highlighted each newsletter
- Emeritus group will be asked to submit a “forgotten gem”
- List of suggestions and ideas to accommodations that are being used in music classrooms
