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Model Music Programs: Ideas for Everyone.(Book review)
* Model Music Programs: Ideas for Everyone, by Michael Blakeslee, Linda C. Brown and Ashley Opp Hoffmann. Music Educators National Conference/Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007. www.rowmaneducation.com; (800) 462-6420; 128pp. $24.95.
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Model Music Programs offers a collection of ideas that could be used to design excellent programs, incorporating a variety of suggestions from a national review of successful programs. This publication can help music teachers and administrators who are faced with decisions about how to make improvements to their music programs.
The authors identify five essential components of a successful music program and describe the grant project that generated most of the information for the book.
The introduction gives details of the procedures used to collect and evaluate the submissions for examples of best practice, innovative ideas, good use of resources and a solid foundation in the National Standards for Music Education. The final chapter includes innovative ideas from other program submissions that were not in the final cohort. (The terms of the grant restricted the final selection to just 12 programs). The two appendices are a directory of these 12 awardees and all the other programs; honorable mention awards are also given here.
Three teacher-judges, all former presidents of MENC divisions around the country made the final selections for the book based on educational standards, replicability, originality and system dependability.
Each of the first four chapters presents an in-depth look at a ...
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