Music Education: Teaching Artistry

Program goals

The program is designed to utilize students’ actual current teaching as a laboratory for developing concepts learned through a distance education platform. Students must hold a formal or non-formal teaching position.

Online diagnostic examinations in Music Theory and Music History will be administered at the beginning of the degree program. Remediation, if needed, will occur during the Workshop in Music classes that are required in the fall and spring semesters.

Your Degree, Your Way

Complete the full master’s degree in 15 months (summer, fall, spring, summer). The online learning program offers scheduling freedom and savings on time and travel costs. While learning is ensured with certified quality and constant improvement.   

With online delivery and straightforward requirements for entry and graduation, the master of music education, teaching artistry specialization will open doors to new knowledge, skills and career possibilities.

Career opportunities

As well as improving your teaching artistry, investing in your education will reflect in your students; new ways of teaching, confidence in your methods and goals and renewed enthusiasm all impact the classroom.

Teaching music is not just the notes and instrument skills, but a reflection of the artistry that music represents and the reflection of ourselves and our lives we all see in music. Studying for a master’s in music education with a specialization in teaching artistry will help you learn the best strategies for bringing music to life for your students.

As well as learning from your world-class BGSU music faculty, you will also build your network of peers. Research has shown schools with higher levels of teacher collaboration are associated with more robust student performance.

Curriculum

Great music teachers transform the lives of their students. Our rigorous curriculum - based on scholarship, musicianship and teaching - creates transformative music educators who bring the joy of music into students’ lives, often for the first time.

Students undertake mentor-guided laboratory experiences with observations and discussions via distance technology and online discussion groups.

Through the use of mentor teachers, faculty committees, individualized and group in­struction and faculty-driven curricular benchmarks, students will gain critical peda­gogical skills, which teachers can implement immediately in their professional work. We turn your classroom into our classroom - allowing you to apply what you learn in your own planning and instruction.

Required courses

Program Information

Applicants should possess an appropriate undergraduate degree and the potential for advanced study as evidenced by musical and intellectual abilities and achievements. Applicants must demonstrate basic skills in distance learning technologies along with an ability to do independent work.

The program is delivered 100% online. Students have access to the same world-class faculty as our in-person degrees. The master in music education with a specialization in teaching artistry offers every student an individual teaching mentor.