Educator.
"The acquisition of content knowledge and practical skills must be accompanied by reflective, imaginative, and meaning-making experiences that offer students opportunities to bring their own individual perspectives into the learning process"
Named to Western University Undergraduate Students' Council Teaching Honour Roll
(2012-2013, 2015-2016)
(2012-2013, 2015-2016)
Courses
Psychology of Music
This course is designed to help students understand how music learning comes about and determine what environmental, physical, and psychological conditions play a role in the learning process. Students learn how to find, summarize, synthesize, critically review, and conduct music psychology research. They are able to discuss some of the defining principles behind a number of major learning and motivational theories, as well as point out the applicability of these principles to music teaching and learning.
This course is designed to help students understand how music learning comes about and determine what environmental, physical, and psychological conditions play a role in the learning process. Students learn how to find, summarize, synthesize, critically review, and conduct music psychology research. They are able to discuss some of the defining principles behind a number of major learning and motivational theories, as well as point out the applicability of these principles to music teaching and learning.
Jazz Pedagogy
This course provides students with methods and materials for teaching jazz to elementary through high school level students. Students learn how to initiate a jazz program, select appropriate curricular materials, and demonstrate effective rehearsal strategies for directing jazz ensembles. Students also differentiate important characteristics of various jazz styles, identify common jazz compositional forms, and demonstrate methods for teaching beginning jazz improvisation.
This course provides students with methods and materials for teaching jazz to elementary through high school level students. Students learn how to initiate a jazz program, select appropriate curricular materials, and demonstrate effective rehearsal strategies for directing jazz ensembles. Students also differentiate important characteristics of various jazz styles, identify common jazz compositional forms, and demonstrate methods for teaching beginning jazz improvisation.
Quantitative Research Methods
This course provides students with conceptual and practical information regarding advanced statistical techniques commonly used in music education research. Course topics include testing for significance of group differences on dependent variables, methodologies for examining relationships among variables and exploring the underlying structures of a dataset, and predicting group membership on the basis of a given set of independent variables.
This course provides students with conceptual and practical information regarding advanced statistical techniques commonly used in music education research. Course topics include testing for significance of group differences on dependent variables, methodologies for examining relationships among variables and exploring the underlying structures of a dataset, and predicting group membership on the basis of a given set of independent variables.
Adjudicating
Kiwanis Music Festival, St. Johns, NL.
Atlantic Festivals of Music, Halifax, NS.
Indiana All-State Jazz Band Auditions.
Purdue University Jazz Festival, West Lafayette, IN.
Kiwanis Music Festival, London, ON.
New Glasgow Music Festival, New Glasgow, NS.
Bloomington Jazz Festival, Bloomington, IN.
Atlantic Festivals of Music, Halifax, NS.
Indiana All-State Jazz Band Auditions.
Purdue University Jazz Festival, West Lafayette, IN.
Kiwanis Music Festival, London, ON.
New Glasgow Music Festival, New Glasgow, NS.
Bloomington Jazz Festival, Bloomington, IN.
Western Young Winds
Western Young Winds provides supplementary instrumental music education for students in grades six through nine with the goal of fostering closer ties between local school music programs and the music education program at Western University. The primary teachers in the Young Winds program are a select group of undergraduate students from the Western University instrumental music teacher education program. The program offers a "real-world" teaching experience for our pre-service music teachers, under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Watson and Dr. Colleen Richardson, director of the Western University Wind Ensemble.
