by Trudi Wright, PhD Dr. Becky Vartabedian and Dr. Trudi Wright celebrating at Regis College’s First-Year Experience Convocation on August 30, 2019 This post is dedicated to my teaching partner ..read more

by The Editors Greetings, Jigsaw readers, and Happy New Year!  After several fruitful years at the helm of this blog, Jessica Getman and Brooke McCorkle have moved on ..read more

In memoriam by Anna Zayaruznaya To use, or not to use? That is the problem. We teachers know what textbooks are and what they aren’t; what they enable ..read more

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