SMTE

To encourage the recruiting of high quality music educators through research, advocacy, and other actions designed to promote music teaching as a career.

Facilitator: David Rickels

Discussion

The Teacher Recruitment ASPA is currently working on three action items:

• Action Item #1. Extend the work of the music education auditionee survey pilot (in press)
• Action Item #2. Gather information on state MEA, CMENC, and Tri-M future teacher collaborative programs
• Action Item #3. Produce an article on non-traditional teacher exemplars oriented toward K-12 teachers

Collaboration

• David Rickels
  Boise State University
  davidrickels@boisestate.edu
• Kim Councill
  Susquehanna University
  councill@susqu.edu
• William Fredrickson
  Florida State University
  wfredrickson@fsu.edu
• Michelle Hairston
  East Carolina University
  hairstonm@mail.ecu.edu
• Janice Killian
  Texas Tech University
  janice.killian@ttu.edu
• Marshall Kimball
  Marietta College
  marshall.kimball@marietta.edu
• Ken Liske
  University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  liske@uwosh.edu
• David Perry
  Anderson University
  dperry@ac.edu
• Ann Porter
  University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
  porteram@ucmail.uc.edu
• Marg Schmidt
  Arizona State University
  marg.schmidt@asu.edu

Resources

Rickels, D. A., Councill, K. H., Fredrickson, W. E., Hairston, M., Porter, A. M., & Schmidt, M. (2010). Influences on career choice among music education audition candidates: A pilot study. Journal of Research in Music Education, 57(4), 292-307. DOI: 10.1177/0022429409350779

“Is the Next Generation of Music Teachers in Your Classroom?” by Ann Porter, Kim Councill, Michelle Hairston, and Marg Schmidt, has been published in:

• The Florida Music Director, 61(11), 12‐14 (Oct. 2008)
• The North Carolina Music Educator, 59(3), 56‐57, in 2009
• The Pennsylvania Music Educators Association News, Volume 73(1), Winter 2008, 76‐79