Product Description: In schools across America, music educators are currently being asked to develop and implement accurate, authentic, and efficient assessment measures. Whether you use the National Standards or state or district standards that are based on them, you can apply the processes in this book to your particular situation...read more

Product Description: This book provides choral music teachers with a variety of techniques that can be applied to conducting, choosing repertoire, program development, recruiting, vocal coaching, and preparing for competitions. A volume in M.E.N.C.'s popular Spotlight series, this book comprises relevant articles that have appeared in M...read more

Product Description: Deepens understandings of key issues about multiculturalism in music education. Covers a broad range of the world's musics: Japanese, Native American, Australian Aborigine, South African, Hispanic, African-American, Israeli, Hawaiian, Amazon Indian, Tennessee Mountain, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides information and guidelines for music educators so that they can be better prepared to structure classroom environments that truly engage students in thinking musically. Emphasizes research-based techniques for instructing young people. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of syllabi, reviewed and selected by a committee from the Society of Music Teacher Education (SMTE), offers a look at what is currently being taught in music education courses across the country. It includes syllabi for graduate and undergraduate courses in general, choral, and instrumental music as well as courses dealing with research methods and computers in music education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Addressing the important topic of the effects of music and reading integration on students' achievements and attitudes, this book presents twenty lessons for integrating selected music and reading concepts and skills. Designed for upper-elementary music and reading teachers, it provides specific materials and teaching techniques...read more

Product Description: Presents key ideas and practical suggestions for implementing the music standards through performance. Based on a Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar.