By Timothy Cochran As the title suggests Saundra Yancy McGuire’s Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills ..read more

Many music history teachers quickly gained facility in the new teaching formats and modes during the pandemic, but change has not stopped. A “new normal,” which can involve face-to-face and hybrid class settings, as well as temporary periods with remote delivery, both invites and requires new and more flexible pedagogical approaches ..read more

Many of us college music professors have struggled to create writing assignments that meet our pedagogical goals and engage students. As music teachers, we need to create equitable assignments that meet our students where they are, help them gain the skills that will be necessary for their success, and meet our course general objectives for thinking and writing about music. In this post, I discuss the rhetorical analysis assignment I use in my music appreciation sections and how I scaffold the informal low-stakes writing and research skills necessary for students to be successful ..read more

By Alexandria Carrico, Katherine Grennell, and James Deaville ..read more

Turn Your Evals into a Research Tool by Dr. Sara Haefeli ..read more

Using Children’s Books to Help Students Select Research Topics and Questions by Dr. Reba Wissner ..read more

Friday, June 10, 2022 8:30-10:45, TMHC Session 1: Forging Fun: Creative Projects for Music History Courses – Andrew Granade, Chair “The Music They Make, The Classes They Take ..read more

by Dr. Karen M. Cook ..read more

The Pedagogy Study Group seeks proposals for a multi-format session at the next annual meeting of the AMS in New Orleans, 10–13 November, 2022. We especially encourage proposals that ..read more

The initial program for the 2021 virtual Teaching Music History Conference is now live! The conference takes place for free via Zoom for about two hours each afternoon ..read more