Selected Learning Outcomes
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Students teach music in all grade levels and in a variety of classroom and ensemble settings through guided, progressive online and field-based experiences.
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Students apply analytical, historical, and culturally responsive skills and knowledge in curriculum development, differentiated planning, informal assessments, and formal evaluations.
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Students demonstrate skills and knowledge of directing, rehearsing, and performing in vocal, wind, string, or percussion instruments.
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Students utilize formative and summative assessment and evaluation strategies responding to each of their student's needs.
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Students will meet all the standards set forth by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), and the James L. and Dorothy H. Dewar College of Education and Human Services.
Selected Outcomes Assessments
- Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate content knowledge through passing the state-required content assessment (Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators, GACE).
- Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate content knowledge, skills in planning, assessment, instructional strategies, use of technology, differentiation, and reflection through the Capstone Portfolio Content Assessment.
- Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate skills in assessment, instructional strategies, use of technology, and differentiated instruction during observed teaching episodes evaluated by a university supervisor and classroom mentor teacher (COEHS Observation Instrument – Candidate Assessment on Performance Standards, CAPS).
- Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate their ability to positively impact P-12 learning through a teacher work sample (COEHS Impact on P-12 Student Learning Assessment).
- Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate appropriate teaching dispositions through self-assessment and university supervisor and mentor teacher disposition assessments (COEHS CAPS Dispositions and Self-Assessment of Dispositions Survey).
Go to the Graduate School website and select Our Programs, then select the MAT in Music Education Program. This program is offered fully online as a four-semester track.
A track designed for those who are currently teaching music on a non-renewable/induction certificate is available. The Employed Teacher Track aligns with the regular track with an additional semester to complete MUE 7810 and MUE 7820. These courses replace the Clinical Practice course for non-employed teaching candidates.
Extensive information about the Music Education Program is available in the VSU Music Education Handbook.
Requirements for the Master of Arts in Teaching in Music Education Degree
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core Courses | 22 | |
| EDUC 2999 | Teacher Education Requirements | 0 |
| MUE 7100 | Professional Development Seminar I: Foundations | 3 |
| MUE 7101 | Professional Development Seminar II: Clinical Practice | 1 |
| MUE 7102 | Professional Development Seminar III: Capstone | 2 |
| MUE 7640 | Generalized Music Education I | 2 |
| MUE 7650 | Generalized Music Education II | 2 |
| Select either Teacher Internship or Clinical Practice: | 6 | |
| Employed Teacher Internship in Music Education I and Employed Teacher Internship in Music Education II | ||
| Clinical Practice in Music Education | ||
| MUE 7800 | Practicum in Music | 3 |
| MUSC 7040 | Technology for Teachers | 1 |
| MUSC 7650 | Graduate Conducting | 2 |
| Select one of the following Tracks: | 15 | |
| Choral Track | ||
| Instrumental Methods: Select from the following | 3 | |
| Percussion Methods | ||
| Low Brass Methods | ||
| String Methods | ||
| Flute, Clarinet, and Saxophone Methods | ||
| Oboe and Bassoon Methods | ||
| High Brass Methods | ||
| MUE 7610 | Choral Curriculum | 3 |
| MUE 7750 | Advanced Vocal Pedagogy | 2 |
| MUE 7370 | Vocal Methods | 1 |
| MUSC 5511 | Choral Literature I | 2 |
| MUSC 5512 | Choral Literature II | 2 |
| Instrumental Track | ||
| Instrumental Methods Courses: Select from the following | 4 | |
| Percussion Methods | ||
| Low Brass Methods | ||
| String Methods | ||
| Flute, Clarinet, and Saxophone Methods | ||
| Oboe and Bassoon Methods | ||
| High Brass Methods | ||
| MUE 7370 | Vocal Methods | 1 |
| MUE 7400 | Instrument Repair | 1 |
| MUE 7600 | Instrumental Music Curriculum | 2 |
| MUE 7700 | Marching Band Techniques | 2 |
| or MUE 7740 | Advanced String Pedagogy | |
| Select one of the following two-course sequences: | 3 | |
| Band Literature I and Band Literature II | ||
| Symphonic Literature I and Symphonic Literature Ii | ||
| MUSC 6760 | Jazz Pedagogy | 1 |
| Total Hour required for the Degree | 36 | |
