AMS Pedagogy

Teaching Music History Conference proposals are due Feb 15! teachingmusichistory.com/events/cfp-tmh…

Any ideas for Pedagogy Friday topics? We're planning for spring now!

Laura Moore Pruett claims her #tmhc2022 reflection on not being able to write the paper she proposed is a "shitty" academic paper, but it's actually one of the best I've heard in a long time, because it's her truth, and she needs to speak it, and we need to hear it.

Laura Moore Pruett of @Merrimack now presenting “Music History and/in/on the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show” which has an unpublishable subtitle 😂 and is a searing, deeply vulnerable reflection on the anxiety, burnout, emotional turmoil, pain of the past few years. #tmhc2022

Consider reframing grades: build in extra credit options from Day 1 (like create a meme or report on a news article); offer options to get more than 100%; grades = earning points, not losing them; ungrading or self-assessment are also good options. #tmhc2022

Dr. Strandberg also recommends building in breaks: flex days; cancel class; show a documentary in class. #tmhc2022

Kristen Strandberg of @UEvansville speaking on proactive pedagogies for student mental health at #tmhc2022, including alternate assignment formats with slightly different deadlines; #activelearning techniques using tools like @perusall.

When Dr. Wright observed a colleague, she saw a question-centered approach; Trudi advocates starting a music history survey with a question like, "What is good music?" and working with and against readings/listenings to continually circle back to it. #tmhc2022

Trudi Wright of @RegisUniversity now presenting on "Teaching Squares" - a grass-roots approach to collaborative, reflective peer-to-peer teaching professional development through classroom observation. #tmhc2022

@anna_kijas shares "Rebalancing the Music Canon" project, created by Anna and @giventufts student workers: rebalancing-music-canon.com #tmhc2022

Next up at #tmhc2022, a panel titled “The X[ML]-Files: Pedagogies to Interrogate and Expand Music History” featuring presentations by @MFeustle, Jessica Grimmer, @anna_kijas, and @tdrdoog. #musicencoding #XML #musicencodinginitiative #MEI

Heeseung Lee of @UNC_Colorado now presenting “Opening the Borders of the Canon with Vicente Fernández in the Exploration of Music through American Identities” - addresses importance of addressing Latinx musics as institutions become HSIs. #tmhc2022

Dr. Knyt links Ferruccio Busoni's "Indian Fantasy" to the American Indianist movement, including Antonín Dvořák's "New World" Symphony, ethnographic work by Natalie Curtis Burlin, Theodore Baker, and Alice Fletcher, and music by Edward MacDowell. #tmhc2022

Erinn Knyt of @UMassAmherst now presenting “’A Dance of the Spirits’ and Native American Songs: Teaching about Appropriation and Exchange in Early Twentieth-Century Symphonic Compositions” at #tmhc2022.

@dutsato1 of @UNC is now presenting “Teaching From the Borders: De/Centering ‘Music of the Américas’” at #tmhc2022

Next up, @Esmoell from @UNG_News and @wordmadelife from @SoundingSpirit walking us through how they train students to write volume summaries for Sounding Spirit's sacred music digitization project. #tmhc2022

John Spilker of @NEWesleyan now doing a teaching demo of how he gets students to develop discussion contracts, drawing on Jasmine Harris's "Uncomfortable Learning" and on Arao and Clemens, "From Safe to Brave Spaces." See handout at drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold… #tmhc2022

Abigail Ryan now doing a teaching demo on South Asian song in the elementary classroom. #tmhc2022

@ZerbinettasBlog now talking about archival work and @TimelineJS with a focus on Florence Price at #tmhc2022. Check out presentation links at micaelabaranello.com/wordpress/?pag…