A primary difficulty with music performance assessment is managing its subjective nature. To help improve objectivity, rubrics can be used to develop a set of guidelines for clearly assessing student performance. Moreover, rubrics serve as documentation for student achievement that provides music teachers with a written form of accountability.…

In music education, current attention to student-centered approaches for learning affects our understanding of student assessment. This view to curriculum reform requires new perspectives for assessment. There is a need to move beyond the summative use of assessment to assign grades to examining the roles of assessment in supporting and enhancing…

Videoconferencing technology can create opportunities to offer music teachers specific feedback that is crucial to satisfying their developmental needs by providing direct impact on instruction through online ensemble clinics. (Contains 3 notes.)

Community involvement in music making is a time-honored tradition that is experiencing a joyful resurgence. The word "community" can mean both an area of geography as well as a group of people coming together with a sense of purpose. In creating a community chorus, a key to its success is to place more emphasis on the second aspect. Go beyond…

In this article, a general elementary music teacher describes the steps involved in becoming a national board certified teacher. The author describes the steps there are to becoming certified including registering with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). She mentions the scholarship or loan programs available to help…