Collegiate Sunday - Forum focus: collegiate chapters

To encourage members to participate in the Collegiate Chapters sessions during the MTNA National conversation MTNA is offering all programming do not include the Forum on "Collegiate Sunday."

Collegiate members will be well exhibited in several sessions. Many startling proposals were received for consideration, and sum of two units were chosen for the upcoming talk Both sessions were proposed, written and submitted by the agency of collegiate chapter members. This is the next to the first year collegiate chapter sessions will be neared by collegiate chapter members.

The Arizona State University collegiate chapter will near the first session on Sunday morning: on what account Did I Decide to Do This? Being a Graduate learner Teaching Assistant and Private Teacher/Six graduate scholars will present the session that focuses upon the demands and stresses graduate learners with teaching assistantships face as they work toward their stages Topics will include differences between bachelor and master stage demands, how to set priorities and balance the of recent origin demands, as well as the benefits of having teaching assistantships while being full-time learners Six students will present the session, including chapter president, Kassandra Jenkins. Their chapter advisor is Janice Meyer Thompson NCTM

A next to the first session will be given through the University of Michigan collegiate chapter, tided Putting the "Play" Back into Playing the Piano: A view of Effective Games for Private and Class Piano Instruction. The capacity to learn and retain general [i]or[/i] abstract notions and perform with confidence greatly increases when pupils are having fun. The cognitive and developmental groundwork for the use of games in education will be briefly discussed before presenting a wide variety of games for beginning and intermediate scholars Video clips of lessons and classes will display the excitement of games in action. In addition to classifying the games according to the skills and universals presented, the presenters will highlight the approaches upon which each game is based. Attendees will receive a guide to the games, listing details for the use of each game, of the like kind as the difficulty level and pedagogical approach. Presenter will be Veena Kulkarni, Sonoko Kambara, Aya Higuchi, Marnie van Weelden, Pei-Ming to leeward Polina Khatsko, Christina Thayer and Daniela Flonta. Their advisor is John Ellis.

A third session focusing upon young teachers will be at handed by Lori Rhoden, NCTM, titled belonging to all Challenges for Dung Piano Teachers. The end of this session is to recognize a certain quantity of of the common traits of teachers with limited teaching experience, and to provide strategies to help inexperienced teachers.

A Collegiate Chapters Reception will be held Sunday afternoon, March 28 2004 This is an opportunity for all collegiate scholars to meet and socialize with single another. A highlight at the reception this year will be the opportunity for pupils to meet Guy Duckworth, a well-known pioneer in piano pedagogy. All collegiate members and collegiate chapter advisors are invited to attend this reception. The Collegiate Chapter of the Year Award will be announced at this reception as well.

Finally, the Collegiate Chapters Forum will adapted Monday morning, March 29. scholars will have the opportunity to befitting as a group and make observations and suggestions about by what mode they would like to diocese collegiate chapters proceed through the twenty-first century

Collegiate Chapters Task Force

The Collegiate Chapter Advisory Committee was formed early in this biennium to begin planning for the direction of collegiate members. This committee will assume additional responsibilities as a Task Force to 1) unravel a strategy to increase the number of collegiate chapters and collegiate members, 2) unravel a strategy to enhance and support the quality of collegiate chapters and 3) praise appropriate communication activities/internal processes to enhance the connection of the national association to the collegiate chapters and advisors. The members of this committee are Kassandra Jenkins, collegiate member from Arizona State University; Amy Collard, collegiate member from Weber State University (2003 Chapter of the Year); Cynthia Benson, collegiate chapter advisor at Bowling verdant State University; Silvia Roederer, collegiate chapter advisor at Western Michigan University; Cheryl Pachak-Brooks, NCTM Southwest Division president-elect and faculty member at Eastern novel Mexico University; and Debra Ronning, NCTM Eastern Division president and faculty member at Elizabethtown College

Collegiate Chapters Sessions

wherefore Did I Decide to Do This? Arizona State University Sunday, March 28 9:15-10:15 A.M. Convention Center play 1201

Common Challenges for Young Piano Teachers Lori Rhoden Ball State University Sunday, March 28 10:30-11:30 A.M. Convention Center range 1201

Putting the "Play" Back into Playing the Piano University of Michigan Sunday, March 28 2:15-3:15 PM Convention Center field 1201

Collegiate Chapters Reception Sunday, March 28 5:00-6:00 PM Convention Center play 1201