The primary purpose of this course is to develop in prospective classroom teachers at the elementary level, necessary knowledges, abilities, attitudes, appreciations and understandings concerning music.  Special attention will be given to materials, methods and usages of music which will enhance their future classroom setting. Fostering an awareness of cultural diversity and our "global community" as represented in music and song will also be emphasized. An emphasis on "connected" learnings will permeate the course.

It is acknowledged that students in this course will have widely divergent backgrounds in music; some with a great deal of experience, some with little or no experience. The course is designed to help each student, regardless of their background, to foster their musical understandings so they might enhance their classrooms with the use of musical materials.

Upon the successful completion of Music 315... a student should:

01. have a well-defined philosophy of music and the need for music in the classroom

02. have basic music reading skills [i.e. treble and bass clefs and rhythms]

03. develop basic recorder technique and understanding of its usages in the classroom

04. have an understanding of the basic instrumental families [i.e. brass, woodwind, percussion]

05. have an understanding of the basic classroom instruments [i.e. autoharp, Orff instruments]

06. have an understanding of the basic basal series utilized in music teaching

07. develop an understanding of "literature-based" or "whole-language" approaches

08. develop an understanding of basic musical periods and representative composers

09. have an understanding of basic trends in education [i.e. KERA, mainstreaming, technology]

10. have an understanding of the importance of our "global community" in music and the arts

11. develop an awareness of, and repertoire of "songs" representing divergent cultures

12. develop an understanding of the basic methodologies of Orff, Kodaly, Suzuki,  Dalcroze

13. develop an awareness of, and repertoire of folk and "pentatonic" songs

14. develop an understanding of "connections" which naturally exist in the classroom

15. have an understanding of how music may enhance the classroom environment

16. have an understanding of how music may be used to re-inforce learnings

17. have an understanding of how music may be used as an expressive/ creative outlet for students

These skill sets will be evaluated through the electronic assignments, music projects, quizzes, final teaching projects, the final examination and classroom participation