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.
2012 NAfME Conference in St. Louis
The MTS ASPA met in St. Louis and had a productive discussion about the possibility of a book proposal. We envision a a Handbook of Music Teacher Socialization, with several parts–for cooperating teachers, for undergraduates, for music teacher educators, for pre-collegiate students, for veteran K12 mentors of K12 novices, for administrators and/or music supervisors. The book would be about practical applications of research, with possible online supplemental materials, and we would put out a call for chapter authors from each of these groups. If you have any ideas about this project, please contact Dan Isbell or Warren Haston (MTS ASPA co-facilitators).
Two useful resources are being developed.
- Michael Raiber, David Teachout, and Warren Haston are compiling a list of events/activities for use in developing undergraduate music education students’ teacher identities. It will be a searchable database linked through this SMTE page. Look for it in August 2012.
- Dan Isbell and Warren Haston (MTS ASPA co-facilitators) are collecting references for published articles/research on music teacher socialization and identity development. If you are aware of an article, please send the information to Dan or Warren to be added to a reference list. The list will be another resource linked through this SMTE page.
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
