Session Proposals
| Presenter Information | |
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| Presenter Name | David Pope |
| Presenter's Position | Associate Professor of Music Education Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Performing Arts |
| Presenter's Short Biography | David Pope serves as Associate Professor of Music Education at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Performing Arts. He has presented string pedagogy clinics and his research at the European String Teachers Congress, the ASTA National Conference, The Midwest Clinic, and numerous regional/state conferences. He is the current String Research Journal editor and recently served as a co-author for Sound Orchestra and a co-editor for Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra (Vol. 4) |
| Presenter's Address | 38359 N. Beachview Rd. Willoughby, Ohio 44094 Map It |
| Presenter's Phone | (865) 384-8338 |
| Presenter's Email | Email hidden; Javascript is required. |
| Will there be additional presenters for your session? | No |
| Session Information | |
| Session Title | Speeding Up the Learning Process by Creating Confident Sight-Readers |
| Session Description | Teaching developing band and orchestra musicians how to become independent musicians is vital to cultivating a classroom culture where individual students and the ensemble can succeed. To succeed, students must learn to decipher printed music quickly, apply prior knowledge, transfer skills, communicate with each other, read ahead, and solve potential issues before they arise. If instrumental students learn those skills, they can become self-sufficient musicians who no longer rely on their music teacher for answers. In this session, I will share various strategies and scaffolding techniques that develop musicians’ abilities through skill isolation, multi-tasking, and communication by implementing rote exercises, printed materials, and technology naturally into rehearsals. The shared methods are based on classroom teaching experience, observations of outstanding teachers, conversations with peers, and research into sight reading and how students acquire knowledge. These strategies apply to beginners through high-achieving musicians in the band and orchestra classrooms. |
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| Is this a demonstration session? | No |
| Sponsorship | |
| Will your session be sponsored? | Yes |
| Please provide the Sponsor's Name and Contact Information | MakeMusic |