Elem Methods Music Majors

Catalog description

This course will prepare music majors to convert their Idaho teaching license from a secondary license to a K-12 teaching license and to prepare them to teach Elementary General Music in the public schools. Students will study music education pedagogies of Kodly, Orff, and Dalcroze, and the applications of those theories in the elementary music classroom. In addition, they will gain familiarity with music resources and materials appropriate to the elementary music classroom (instruments, curriculum, textbook series, assessments, song repertoire, technology, record keeping, arts integration). Each student will gainproficiencyin teaching through active learning and will experience teaching in the public-school elementary classroom. The course is intended for music education majors in their junior or senior year.