Music Ed - Choral summer programs

violadad
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:51:07 +0000

Taking VicAria’s comment about a music ed aspect a bit further:

I may be wrong, but I’ve yet to find anything in a high school age geared program that encompasses music ed in a summer music participatory performance program. I doubt you’re going to find a program that covers any teaching technique or academic overview aspect of music ed, particularly for the pre college level.

If the Northwestern program the OP mentions includes a music ed aspect, I’d urge her to post a link, as it may well be of interest to a number of people.

There are summer courses and workshops covering numerous aspects of the music ed profession offered at a number of colleges and universities that have noted music ed departments, but these are geared to masters level grad students, professional educators and an occasional music ed undergrad candidate.

These programs tend to move at a fast pace, as do most summer for credit/professional development classes and workshops, and assume a working basic knowledge of rudimentary educational philosophies, psychology, and applied techniques, both general and music specific.