Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with adolescent development, authors outline clear, pedagogical steps for the creation of an inclusive curriculum that is age-appropriate age-relevant, and standards-based. You will find timely chapters on singing and playing instruments such as guitar, keyboard, ukulele, drumming and percussion. Other chapters address ways to make music with technology, strategies for students with exceptionalities, and the construction of instruments. Further, there are chapters on songwriting, interdisciplinary creative projects, co-creating musicals, infusing general music into the choral classroom, and standards-based assessment. The book is full of musical examples, sample rubrics, and resource lists. This second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music is a necessity for any practitioner who teaches music to adolescent students or as a text for secondary general music methods courses.
Suzanne L. Burton is Associate Dean for the Arts and Professor of Music Education at the University of Delaware. Her scholarly interests include music teacher preparation and professional learning, music acquisition, music literacy, and technology in early childhood music.
Preface Suzanne L. Burton Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Celebrating Early Adolescence Krystal Rickard McCoy Chapter 2: Exceptionalities in Adolescence Kimberly A. McCord Chapter 3: Adolescents and Singing Joshua Palkki Chapter 4: Guitar for the Middle School Classroom Scott Burstein and Martina Vasil Chapter 5: Early Keyboard Experiences to Inspire Musicianship Suzanne L. Burton Chapter 6: Drumming and Percussion Gareth Smith and Brian Bersh Chapter 7: Toca el ukulele: Songs in Spanish and the Ukulele Robin Giebelhausen Chapter 8. Ideas for Instrumental Music Making Patricia Shehan Campbell and Lee Higgins Chapter 9: Music Technology in the Middle School General Music Classroom James Frankel Chapter 10: Informal, Intuitive, Interdisciplinary, & Interactive: Middle School General Music with a Twist Gena R. Greher Chapter 11: Songwriting and the Importance of Classroom Community Mark C. Adams Chapter 12: Co-Creating Musicals with Middle School Students Heather Wadler Chapter 13: Bridging Practices: Infusing General Music into the Choral Classroom Aimee Pearsall Chapter 14: Did Students Learn What I Think I Taught Them? Assessment of Musical, Standards-based Learning in Middle School General Music Alden H. Snell II About the Editor About the Authors
