Music Teachers Professional Development series

Collaborative Inquiry for Effective Music Teaching: Asking Questions and Finding Answers to Improve Student Achievement in Music

The 2009-10 school year once again offers a series of three professional development events for music teachers in New York City public schools. As with last year’s series, this must be paid for by the school at the pleasure of the principal, and participants must register on-line using the Pro-Traxx website, for which you’ll need to register, and then log in.

The cost of the series is $300 per participant for the full workshop series (3 days) to be paid by the school.
The workshops will take place at Long Island City High School in Queens on November 3, 2009, and Monday, February 1 and Thursday, June 10, 2010,  from 8:30 AM — 3:00 PM.

This series of workshops proposes to “examine our strategies for teaching music and the results we subsequently get. Working in small collaborative groups based on level, specialty area, and experience, we will draw upon our own experiences and talents to determine lines of inquiry for teaching music and improving student mastery. Building on the assessment work we did last year, small cohorts will establish areas of inquiry or need, share what works, provide evidence of how they know it works, exchange strategies, and support each other to improve outcomes for all our students.”