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Novice Music Teachers: Beginning Secondary Music Teachers and the Challenges of Classroom Management
Date Permissions Signed
11-12-2020
Date of Award
Fall 2020
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Department or Program Affiliation
Music
Degree Name
Master of Music (MMus)
Department
Music
First Advisor
Bourne, Patricia, 1957-
Second Advisor
Pyscher, Tracey
Third Advisor
Bianco, Christopher
Abstract
Classroom management has long been held as the number one concern for novice teachers. For novice music teachers (NMTs), classroom management is even more essential due to class sizes often in excess of 50, and with students literally holding noisemakers. While most NMTs are taught how to support the majority of students, and often receive extra support for students with extreme needs, there exists a population of students (Tier II) who fall in between. NMTs are often unprepared for these students, becoming easily derailed from their lessons and very stressed.
To explore the experiences of NMTs and the Tier II population, a short qualitative survey was distributed to 20 teachers who had five or fewer years of experience teaching. From the fourteen responses, patterns are revealed in the behaviors expressed by these students (mostly disruptive) and the interventions employed by the NMTs (mostly connecting with the students and building relationships) to encourage positive behaviors. It is also revealed that it is likely many of the problems faced by NMTs is due to their struggle to be vulnerable and honest with their students, instead attempting to retain an air of authority.
Type
Text
Keywords
Music education, classroom management, new teachers, novice teachers, music teachers, novice music teachers, beginning teachers, beginning music teachers
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
1226078415
Subject – LCSH
Music--Instruction and study; Classroom management; Music teachers--Training of
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
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Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Kelley, Christopher, "Novice Music Teachers: Beginning Secondary Music Teachers and the Challenges of Classroom Management" (2020). WWU Graduate School Collection. 993.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/993