Current Trends in Music Education Overview

What is this class about? Who is this class for?	Current Trends in Music Education For the first time, the University of Kansas will offer the distance learning course Current Trends in Music Education #816. It is a graduate level music education class for practicing professionals and current music education students. Course Description This is a live, interactive class. MEMT 816, Current Trends in Music Education (3 credit hours) will meet Mondays, January 28-May 12, from 4:30 - 6:20 PM with one hour of "appointment" credit for the student's research. This course will be devoted to a study of current trends in music education, those that are specific to the profession as well as others in the larger education arena that affect the school music program.	Potential course foci: • program management • curriculum • classroom management and discipline • federal mandates • national and state standards • pedagogy • topics based on the needs of the course participants
	Instructor Dr. Debra (Gordon) Hedden, Associate Professor of Music Education and Music Therapy at the University of Kansas, is a general music specialist and is a past chair of MENC’s Chair of the Society for General Music. Hedden has 20 years of public school teaching experience and 10 years as faculty and Chair of Music Education at the University of Northern Iowa. In public school she has taught band, choir, and general music; in higher education she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and has founded and directed the Northern Iowa Children’s Choir at UNI. While at KU since 2003, she has initiated graduate music education distance delivery and has founded and directed the KU Youth Chorus at The University of Kansas.	Dr. Debra Hedden +1 785 864 9638 dhedden@ku.edu
Where will I have classes? When does the class meet?	Locations The course will be offered at KU as both an on-campus class in MUR 448 and an off-campus course with sites to be determined by students' needs. Some community colleges and high schools have Polycom transmission capabilities and could be used for class locations; or the student can purchase software and use the internet to attend class. Both venues offer live, participatory class sessions that can conceivably occur anywhere in the world. Course participants will have continuous opportunities to enhance their professional networking as well as learn from each other. Please see the KU Music Education/Music Therapy web site for information on degree programs.	on-campus: • KU Campus, Rm. 448 MUR