Music Teacher Socialization
- To address the undergraduate student’s transformation from student to teacher through program components and experiences.
- To facilitate the tertiary socialization of early-career in-service music teachers in a manner that effectively develops them into change agents prepared to impact the musician educator profession.
Facilitators: Warren Haston and Dan Isbell
Music Teacher Socialization ASPA Member Page
Ongoing Goals
- Collect a cache of cases illuminating personal transformations.
- MTS ASPA members serve as translators/disseminators targeting state and local conferences and publications.
- Continue investigating key themes, issues, models of research, and develop research agendas and action plans.
Goals from 2011 SMTE Symposium
- Session propoal(s) for NAfME 2012 focused on transitino from preservice to inservice teachers and how to negotiate becoming effective change agents
- Propose a special focus issue (perhaps to JMTE) dedicated to music teacher socialization
- Identify appropriate indicators of a socialized music teacher at the transition point from preservice to inservice, to further inform the work of the Policy ASPA (particularly with respect to measuring and assessing Dispositions.
Resources
Origin and Evolution of the Music Teacher Socialization ASPA
The Transition from Music Student to Music Teacher: A Summary of the Research Literature
An Examination of the Transition from Primary to Secondary Socialization of Music Educators
