“YES AND!” Building Resilience in the Classroom Through Improv Games
Writing is hard and vulnerable, no matter the stage. I still hold my breath whenever I receive feedback from an anonymous reviewer, fearing I will have to start…
Category: Teaching Tips
Re-Imagining Musicology Pedagogy in the Age of ChatGPT
During the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), one concern among musicology instructors is the prevalence of AI-generated content in student essays. It is evident that GenAI, particularly…
“Remixing” Open-Source Texts for the Music History Sequence
Terms, Titles, and Texts The 116 Community Colleges in California (CCC) serve 2 million students, offering high-quality education in a variety of modalities. I have been teaching music…
Annotating Taruskin and How It Went
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…
Picturing Music History: A Community-Based Public Musicology Class Project
A few years ago, based on increasing student interest, I was asked to create my college’s first course in Black American music history. I use a variety of media in my teaching, from primary sources to film to comics to picture books. It is this last format that provided the inspiration for my students’ capstone project in the Spring 2022 semester.
Active Learning Strategies for a (Post?) COVID-19 Era Music History Course
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.
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