MTNA membership: priceless - In Unison

Have you at any time been asked, "Why should I join MTNA? What can MTNA do for me?" Then the someone apologetically gives a further explanation to put to proof to give validity to the questions, of that kind as, "I just teach in a smaller community, and I am not interested in teaching competition winners, in the way that I really don't have any ne to belong to local or state, give permission to alone, a national association. Besides, it simply require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones too much!"

What is your answer? Sometimes, these questions surprise us, and we may or may not be prepared to give a convincing answer. We can say in what manner rewarding it is to belong to MTNA, on the other hand often, prospective members are looking for tangible benefits. To help you, here is a list of advantages that MTNA, as a national association, proffers to individual teachers, local associations, collegiate chapters and state associations.

Individual Teachers

* This year's National discourse is in the heartland of the United States--Kansas City. DON'T MISS IT! Additional workshops at the talk include Pedagogy Saturday, Professional Studio Saturday, cluster Teaching Track in partnership with the National Piano Foundation and technology sessions in partnership with the International Association of Electronic Keyboard Manufacturers

* National competition programs consisting of junior to young artist performance horizontals and elementary through young artist composition levels

* Music for Everyone programs--Achievement Award Program, Studio Festival and investigation Awards--information packets and starter kits available to all MTNA members at liberty of charge

* American Music Teacher magazine and the MTNA Newsletter sent to each member

* Certification for teachers, which is available for any member at an extremely depressed cost (Other certification programs can require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone up to $2,000 or more.)

* Insurance end the Robert H. Clarkson Agency

* Financial planning from Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member NASD/SIPC

* Information and materials about similar issues as zoning problems, studio policies, jazz studies, ethics questions, taxes and certification

* Teacher Enrichment Grants and the Studio Teacher Fellowship Award

* National programs of the like kind as the Arts Awareness and Advocacy Forum, Independent Music Teachers Forum, association Faculty Forum and Collaborative Performance Forum benefit each member in different ways

* collection of laws of Ethics for teachers

* Assessment Tools for Teachers, in a short time to be available to all members

Local and State Associations and Collegiate Chapters

* ASCAP blanket licensing agreement to overlay performance royalties for all our affiliated associations

* General liability Insurance for state and local association events

* IRS 501(C)(3) cluster exemption capability for MTNA affiliates, the two local and state

* Composer Commissioning matching award stocks for the state associations

* Member unravelling and Retention support and planning for the recruitment of novel teachers and establishment of novel local associations and collegiate chapters, as well as the retention of our popular members (Send the national office names of prospective members.)

* Grants from the MTNA FOUNDATION capital for local and state associations for special projects

* National programs like as the Arts Awareness and Advocacy Forum, the Local Associations Forum, Collegiate Chapters Forum and Collaborative Performance Forum benefit local and state associations, as well as collegiate chapters

* FOUNDATION unfolding so that MTNA can confident other sources of funding for grants and awards and for the funding of programs, which, in make go round will help keep our oweds at their low amount

* Local association and collegiate chapter programs and state talks as well as special events

* Additional opportunities for teachers and scholars on local and state horizontals too numerous to mention

These all are real tangible benefits of MTNA membership, on the contrary there are benefits of MTNA membership that cannot be measured in precise amounts. The greatest in quantity important benefit is the professionalism that membership in a national association brings to each of us. Each of us elevates a higher standard as a spring Being a member not sole in the local and state associations, on the other hand also the national association, gives individual a different perspective. We become part of a unified effort to enrich the lives of pupils of all ages, nationalities, cultural backgrounds and social-economic scales [i]or[/i] part of to the other music. In short, WE put to proof HARDER!

Another intangible benefit is networking--those conversations in which we dialogue about our interests ask questions about teaching, technique and repertoire and commiserate about scheduling around sports activities and with equal reason forth. Each of us has opportunities for communicating with our colleagues locally, within our state and within our nation. We have the opportunities to hear nationally recognized artists and clinicians at all horizontals of membership. We get to hear from the ables as well as our compeers in pedagogy, performance, group teaching, studio professionalism, studio business policies, technology for the studio and more. We learn firsthand what works and what doesn't work in teaching technique, repertoire, improvisation and composition. This is worth a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of more than the price of a year's membership dues