Your presentation to your class will be in the form of a brief professional conference presentation. Each group will have 10 minutes - 6 for presentation and 3-4 for questions and answers and discussion. Each member of your team should be prepared to speak for about 2 minutes.

You will need to coordinate the content of your remarks so that you cover all the information, and that each of you presents different information. Please don't be the one who can only say "as .... just said." If you feel most comfortable writing your part of the presentation and reading it to your audience, you may do so. Even if you don't want to read it as part of the presentation, you will want to write a draft to organize your thoughts.

Please prepare a bibliography to be used as a handout for your audience. (If you turn this in with your outline, your instructor will make the copies for you. Otherwise you are responsible for copies for handouts.) You will need to list at least 8 sources on your topic. These may be journal articles, books, web pages or even substantive newspaper articles. Be sure to prepare a page with the title of your presentation, the bibliography in proper form and your names at the bottom, in case someone from your audience wants to contact you.

Visual aids are not necessary for your presentation, but you may want to consider them as an enrichment.

Power point is available in your presentation room. Plan ahead. Be sure that the equipment you need is available, set up and working prior to your presentation. Practice using the system ahead of time.

Or, you may want to use handouts.

Dress professionally for your presentation.

Phases of the Research Project:

Week 4. Select groups

Each group should include at least one instrumental and one vocal person.

Week 5. Present three possible topics, in order of preference

Topics should be broad and relate to all aspects of music teaching - philosophical, pedagogical, etc. For example, one of the topics last year was “Choosing the Right Music Literature for Choirs and Bands. This did not suggest any specific pieces, rather it presented steps of the process of selecting the pieces - what to consider in making the decisions. “Fund raising” is not an acceptable topic.

Week 6. Submit bibliography (in proper bibliographic form). Include at least two books, at least two articles and at least two web sites for a total of eight sources. Be sure that the web sites are of the scholarly nature and properly documented.

Week 8. Submit revised bibliography (Try to be 100% accurate in week 6 so you don’t have to do this revision.)
        Select dates (schedule the conference presentations)

Week 9. Identify division of the content responsibilities: Who will talk about what?
       Plan the organization carefully. Avoid duplication.

Week 10. Paragraph for the printed program: project abstract

This paragraph should be approximately 100 words and should be written to attract the conference-goers to your presentation. Please submit electronically by midnight on Tuesday night.

Weeks 11-14. Presentations

There will be a printed program, and we will carry this out as if it were a VMEA conference presentation. Please remember to dress appropriately. Remember you are responsible for a handout unless you have made arrangements with your instructor ahead of time.

Topics and Groups - Spring, 2011

April 6, 2001 Importance of teaching different styles of reading and counting rhythm Carlton, Hobbs, Joe Robson
April 13, 2011 Dealing with time constraints and issues Ashley McGee, Aaron Brown, Sam Andrews		Strategies for teaching that grab the attention of students Meredith Didlake, Holly Mattison, Matthew Little
April 20, 2011 Could relating pop music to classical music in the curriculum help make music class more appealing to students? Kathleen Lilly, Sam Edwards, Philip Spiess		Benefits of having different types of warm-ups (kinesthetic, verbal, etc.) for singing and playing an instrument Nicole Cressman, Emily Matthis, Alyssa Jones
April 27, 2011 Grading Music Jay Coward, Jared Dawdy, Vera Crouse

Grading:

Your grade (6 points) will be figured as follows:
Content - 3
      Thorough coverage of the topic
      Contributions by all members of the panel
      Logical organization of material and flow
      Internalization of content; understanding and insight
      Proper use of sources and citations
      Grammar and pronunciation
Presentation- 3
      Projection and enunciation
      Eye contact, posture, demeanor
      Use of visual aids or other materials
      Fielding questions, discussion
      Pacing, use of time
      Promptness, timeliness

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