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Phillip D. Payne; Natalie Steele Royston – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
With the rise of diagnoses and awareness of mental wellness indicators across the country, the current study sought to pilot a measure to begin appraising the current state of music educators' mental wellness. Music educators across the United States (N = 84) self-reported indicators of depression, anxiety, stress, and job satisfaction. According…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Music Teachers, Mental Health
Kenneth J. Moore – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
This historical study chronicles the creation, development, and termination of the Midwestern Conference on School Vocal and Instrumental Music, hosted by the University of Michigan between 1946 and 2005. Beginning as a band music reading session led by William Revelli in 1936, the conference developed into a premier professional workshop by the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Conferences (Gatherings), Organizations (Groups), Music Education
Karen Koner; J. Si Millican; Abigayle Weaver-Gerdes; Amy Villanova – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of short-term mindfulness practices on self-regulation of practice routines in high school instrumental students. We implemented mindfulness techniques prior to at-home practice routines for high school instrumental students (N = 117) over 16 weeks. Using the four-factor model of self-regulation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Musical Instruments, Metacognition, Music Education
Brian C. Murray; Tiger Robison – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that may influence middle school choir directors' (MSCDs) sense of self-efficacy. Survey participants (N = 448) who were members of one of three private and active MSCD social media groups completed a questionnaire designed to elicit responses about their senses of self-efficacy and demographic…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Singing, Music Education, Music Teachers
Erin J. Hopkins – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
Music educators and clinicians from Ohio and across the country gather annually for the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Professional Development Conference. Dr. Sarah J. Bartolome, Associate Professor of Music Education at Northwestern University, was the featured keynote speaker of the Graduate Research Forum in February 2024. In addition…
Descriptors: Music Education, Organizations (Groups), Professional Development, Faculty Development
Jennifer L. Gee – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine K-12 music teachers' beliefs pertaining to classroom management after the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants consisted of 567 K-12 music teachers currently teaching within the United States. They responded to a modified version of the "Classroom Management Beliefs Survey" developed by Kwok (2021).…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Music Teachers
Crystal Lynn Gerrard; Max Mollenkamp – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this research was to explore secondary music teachers' perceptions and experiences with English language learner (ELL) students. Specifically, we sought to understand teachers' educational backgrounds, dispositions, and pedagogical decisions related to working with ELL students. The questions guiding the study were: (1) what are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Music Teachers, Secondary School Students, English Language Learners
Patrick K. Freer; Steven Armon Anderson – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of the student-faculty mentoring relationship from the perspectives of a Black male doctoral student in music education and his White mentor/professor. A specific focus of this study was the development of trust. Previous studies with doctoral students have identified trust as a key component…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Student Relationship, African American Students, Males
Phillip M. Hash – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
Popular music has existed in American education since the 1700s. However, biases related to race and class, and concern for student morality have often led educators to eliminate or suppress these musics in the classroom. Progressive teachers and students themselves sometimes advocated for popular styles, which eventually made their way into the…
Descriptors: Music, Educational History, Social Bias, Racism
Ollie Kress – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
Self-determination theory is a large-scale theory of human motivation that originated from research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and expanded to include research on work, organizations, and other domains of life (Deci et al., 2017). The three tenets of self-determination theory include: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The purpose…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Singing, Performance, Student Attitudes
Ji-Eun Kim – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore classroom choir teachers' perceptions of choral methods topics in secondary choral teaching preparedness. Members of the American Choral Directors Association Facebook Group who had classroom choir teaching experiences and responded to a survey (N = 100) participated in this study. I employed two…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods
Patricia Shehan Campbell – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The vision for musically educating all children in tax-funded schools dates to the early 19th century, at a time when music was initially inserted into the curriculum of common schools. Is that vision being realized today? Why do all children not have equal access to music education by now, regardless of their locations, as per the democratic…
Descriptors: Music Education, Public Education, Educational History, Equal Education
Parker, Elizabeth Cassidy – Contributions to Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to explore the classroom management development of six mid- and late-career public school music educators from the southeastern United States. Areas of inquiry included how educators articulated their classroom management development, their management challenges and successes, and how classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Public School Teachers, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Cronenberg, Stephanie; Tews, Natalie; Price, Delmarice; Bishop, Nathan – Contributions to Music Education, 2023
Culturally responsive pedagogy encourages teachers to connect the curriculum to students' cultural identities and foster their development of critical consciousness. However, there is limited empirical research into the culturally responsive practices of instrumental music educators in the United States, and the conventional repertoire of United…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Middle School Teachers, Music Teachers, Grade 5
Herman, Christina – Contributions to Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice music teachers' motivation, social emotional skills, and perceptions of classroom climate during an online peer-assisted learning (PAL) experience. Participants (n = 27) included students in an introductory music education course who completed a teaching practicum using an online peer teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Music Teachers, Interpersonal Competence, Student Attitudes