Technology Not for Music Class
A colleague of mine, the other vocal music teacher in my school, took a class this past summer on technology in the music classroom. He developed many thoughtful lesson plans that utilized Microsoft Powerpoint, and borrowed the school's projector for his classes on Friday. The students were very receptive to the lesson, and he was very excited. Later that day, during a discussion with the principal, he shared with her what a success the lesson was, and told her that he would like to continue to use Powerpoint in the future. Her response was very blunt: that he should realize that other subjects, like math and science, will obviously have precedence over him when it comes to using the projector.
To me, this quote is such a blatant admission to the back seat music takes in my school. Is it just my school, or is this the attitude of public school administration everywhere? What can we, as music educators, do to change this attitude?
posted by jodi m @ 10:25 PM
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I think that the root of this problem is something that we have talked about in class: is teaching music a professional activity (like math and science)? Obvisouly, Jodi's principal seems not to think so. So, what can we do about this?
Because of NCLB 2001, administrators are FORCED to give responses like that. Math and english classes need going to get precidence over anything else, followed by science, otherwise the schools could be taken over by the state.
Music is at the bottom of the totum pole; however, it is the bottom of the totum pole that supports the entire totum.
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