PUTTING PEDAGOGY PRACTICE

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1 PUTTING PEDAGOGY INTO PRACTICE Matthew McInturf American Band College Sam Houston State University July 1, 2012

2 CREATING SUCCESS FOR STUDENTS OF MUSIC

3 CREATING SUCCESS Engaging their Hearts and Minds Building Commitment Offering them a Future

4 HEARTS AND MINDS Art is Human - Teaching is about Relationships Communicate the Passion Stimulate Curiosity Make it Exciting

5 COMMITMENT Good Pedagogy generates Progress Reward ALL Progress Motivate Practice Reward ALL Practice

6 THE FUTURE Good Pedagogy Builds Skills Skills Create Musical Opportunities The Key Principle is Understanding follows Doing

7 TEACH THE STUDENT NOT THE BAND

8 PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE Short-Term and Long-Term Results Defining and Redefining the Result

9 RESULTS TRAJECTORY Students are motivated by Short-Term Goals Long-Term Results MUST determine the Short-Term Goals Reward the achievement of every Goal

10 DEFINING SUCCESS Progress equals Success Progress must be Measurable The Teacher defines the Criteria

11 WHAT DOES GOOD PEDAGOGY LOOK LIKE?

12 GOOD PEDAGOGY Begins with the End in Mind Conforms to Professional Models Avoids the Curriculum of Convenience Leads to Musical Independence

13 BEGINNING AT THE END Defining the Long-Term Goal Creating a Coherent Curriculum Offering Achievable Challenges

14 PROFESSIONAL MODELS The Best Professional Performers set the Standard Educational Models can be helpful, but should not determine our standards Create Options and Remove Limits

15 AVOIDING THE CURRICULUM OF CONVENIENCE The most common mistake in most classrooms The beginning must be consistent with the end Any compromise leads to required remediation or failure

16 MUSICAL INDEPENDENCE Requires Skill Requires Intellectual Understanding Requires the Increasing Assumption of Responsibility

17 MOTIVATING PRACTICE IS THE FIRST PRIORITY

18 PRACTICING PERFORMANCE The Pedagogy of Practice The Pedagogy of Performance

19 PEDAGOGY OF PRACTICE Creating the Link between Practice and Success Celebrating Success Transferring Responsibility to the Student

20 THE ONLY EXPERIENCE COMMON TO ALL MUSICIANS IS PRACTICE

21 PEDAGOGY OF PERFORMANCE Performing is a skill to be learned Great performers practice performing Performing is a synthesis of skills Success leads back to PRACTICE

22 PRACTICE TO PERFORM Play Practice Practice Performing Perform

23 PRACTICING PERFORMING Technical Contextual Continuity and Consistency

24 Whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the recipient. Aristotle

25 BACK TO THE FUTURE Performing Success can be highly Motivating Motivation that becomes PRACTICE leads to FUTURE SUCCESS

26 THE BEST PEDAGOGY CREATES SYSTEMS TO STRUCTURE SUCCESS

27 THE STRUCTURE OF SUCCESS Individual Achievement Connecting the Curriculum Creating Artistic Awareness

28 INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT Solo Performing Chamber Music Honor Events Interacting with Musicians and Artists

29 UNLEASH THE POWER OF EVENTS

30 CONNECTING THE CURRICULUM Promoting Consistent Standards Communicating Artistic Value Defining Success Appropriately Communicating Accomplishement

31 ARTISTIC AWARENESS Developing the Listener Engaging with Accomplished Artists Learning to think like an Artist Seeing the world as Art

32 THE ULTIMATE SUCCESS IS MUSIC BECOMING A PART OF THE STUDENT S IDENTITY

33 Acknowledgements Brian Gibbs Associate Director of Bands Sam Houston State University Dr. Jeffrey Loeffert Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Saxophone Oklahoma State University Brian Merrill Coordinator of Music Education Southern Methodist University Joni Viertel Perez Director of Bands The Woodlands High School The Woodlands, Texas Dr. Scott D. Plugge Director of the School of Music Sam Houston State University Frank Troyka Director of Bands L. V. Berkner High School

34 Special Thanks to the following Teachers, Friends and Colleagues who have taught me to Teach and to Make Music Anschel Brusilow Kalman Cherr y Douglas Walter Daniel Armstrong Larry Lawless Brian Merrill Malcolm Helm Bob Brandenberger Pamela Adams Joe Dixon Claire Jo h n s o n Ji m Ir w i n B o b Jo h n s o n Eddie Green Marion West Lynne Jackson Tom Bennett Charlene Nelson Michael Horvit Lester Brothers Eugene Corporon Thomas Stone John Lynch Erwin Nigg Richard Dunscomb Gary Green Frank Troyka Jeffrey Loeffert Randal Adams Robert Walzel Ralph Mills Patricia Card James Bankhead Kathy Daniel Peter Wa r s h a w Henr y Howey Christopher Deviney Robert Daniel Richard Crain Scott Plugge John Tafoya Wilfred Roberts John Lane Michael Brashear Nicholas Luggerio Brian Eisemann Wesley Rober tson Marianna Gabbi Allen Hightower Terence Milligan Tye Ann Payne Edward Nowacki Randy Fitch Michael Mamminga Jack Greenberg Rick Yancey Michael Vasquez Herman Vogelstein Spring Hill Rod Cannon Phillip Aikman Richard Floyd Paula Crider John Whitwell Judy McInturf Charlotte Royall Geoffrey McInturf Bradley Kent Stanley Aiken Christopher Adler Brian Gibbs Carol Smith

35 Matthew McInturf Sam Houston State University Professor of Music Director of Bands Director of the Center for Music Education Matthew McInturf, 2012