Professional Preparation
Students will be prepared to function competently in the public schoolclassroom as musical artists, as teachers, and as administrators.
Rehearsal Technique
Students will develop processes, build skills, and share knowledge in rehearsal technique by analyzing scores, forecasting rehearsal issues, planning, creating, and prioritizing strategies, executing the rehearsal with a real lab choir.
Classroom Strategies and Policies
Students will be prepared to create their own strategies and policies for themusic classroom based on sound principles.
Choral Voice Building
Students will develop processes, build skills, and share knowledge in voice building of choral singers by creating an index of vocalises to build technique, modeling for and strategizing to improve the tone of the lab choir over the semester, reading about and discussing group vocal pedagogy.
Choral Repertoire
Students will develop processes, build skills, and share knowledge in discerning quality choral repertoire, collecting and organizing it into personal choral reference libaries.
Repertoire and Program Selection
Students will develop processes, build skills, and share knowledge in selecting repertoire and creating quality concert programs for secondary students.
Creating Course Documents
Students will develop processes, build skills, and share knowledge in creating course documents that outline curriculum goals, classroom management rules and consequences, assessment and grading procedures, budget proposals and purchasing information.
Recruiting and Voice Testing
Students will develop processes, build skills, and share knowledge in recruiting singers, voice testing and discerning stages of the changing voice meeting the range needs of those voices, auditioning.
