Music Technology in Education

The Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) is looking for 10 middle school Math and 10 middle school Language Arts teachers to participate in the Connect With Music Project. Funded last year by NAMM, Connect With Music is a website that contains 30 interdisciplinary lesson plans that use music, multimedia, and technology as a way to teach Language Arts, Math, and Science. The project was funded again this year to bring 20 Math and Language Arts teachers in for professional development workshops that train the teachers how to use the website effectively and to have them create their own lesson plan that will be added to the website.

The Language Arts training will take place in Haverford, PA and will delivered by Jason Finn and Tom Rudolph, the authors of the Language Arts lessons. Dates for the training (Oct. 27, Nov. 3, Nov. 10, Dec. 8th) are all on Saturday mornings from 9am - 1pm. Upon successful completion of the training and the submission of a lesson plan and student work, all teachers will receive a $250 honorarium and Act 48 credit. For more information, please visit the Language Arts Call for Participants Page.

The Mathematics training will take place in Franklin Lakes, NJ and will be delivered by Katy O’Malley and myself, the authors of the Math lessons. Dates for the training (Oct. 13, Oct. 20, Oct. 27, Nov. 3) are also all on Saturday mornings from 9am - 1pm. Upon successful completion of the training and the submission of a lesson plan and student work, all teachers will receive a $250 honorarium and 16 hours of NJ Professional Development Hours. For more information, please visit the Mathematics Call for Participants Page.

Please pass this information on to a middle school Language Arts or Math teacher that you think would be available for this project and who would enjoy using technology and music to help teach their subject. We have a few openings left and we need to fill them soon! I appreciate your help with this.

I wlecome any questions about the project. Please feel free to email me at jtfrankel@hotmail.com.