Strike up the Band: Motivating Student Musicians

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Strike up the Band: Motivating Student Musicians

Welcome to Strike up the Band (and Orchestra!): Motivating Student Musicians. This podcast is a series of discussions about motivation in the instrumental music program. The participants are Luke Jones, Matt McKeever, and Jennifer Mishra. The podcasts were recorded on the University of Missouri – St. Louis campus.

07/22/2015

Episode 16: Interview with Tom Poshak

In this podcast, Tom Poshak is in the studio with us discussing motivating instrumental ensembles. Tom is a retired high school band director and taught 30 in the Ladue & Kirkwood school districts (St. Louis, Missouri). In 2001 he received the Music Educator of the Year award from the St. Louis Suburban Music Educators Association and in 2004 received the Hall of Fame Award. He now is Director of the University City Summer Band and Assistant Director of the St. Louis Wind Symphony.

12 min
07/22/2015

Episode 15: Interview with Anthony Mazzocchi - Part 2

In today’s podcast, we conclude our interview Anthony Mazzocchi, a trombonist who has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony and is a Grammy nominated music educator of the year. Currently he is the associate director and professor of trombone at Montclair State University. He is the author of the book The Music Parents' Guide: A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent and the accompanying blog.

18 min
07/22/2015

Episode 14: Interview with Anthony Mazzocchi - Part 1

In today’s podcast, we interview Anthony Mazzocchi, a trombonist who has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Diego Symphony and is a Grammy nominated music educator of the year. Currently he is the associate director and professor of trombone at Montclair State University. He is the author of the book The Music Parents' Guide: A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent and the accompanying blog.

12 min
07/22/2015

Episode 13: Interview with Dr. Julie Troum

In today’s podcast, we interviewed Dr. Julie Troum, the author of The Motivated Musician blog. She does educational consulting, student seminars, and teacher workshops. Her research addresses the motivational issues musicians face during training activities with respect to the individual needs, well-being, and personal satisfaction of the training musician.

9 min
07/22/2015

Episode 12: Interview with Sandy Lundberg

In this podcast we interview Sandy Lundberg, a private piano teacher from Berthold, CO. We discuss motivating students and ways that parents can influence their children when playing music.

13 min
07/15/2015

Episode 11: The Importance of Parental Value

In this podcast, we discuss the factors that affect whether children choose to participate in music. We are reacting to a research study by Kwang Suk Yoon. Because a major motivator for the choice is parental value, we continue our previous discussions of parental involvement in the motivation of students in music.

11 min
07/14/2015

Episode 10: The Negative Affects of Incentives

In this podcast we discuss Daniel Pink’s video about the puzzle of motivation. We begin by discussing the popular psychology test of the candle problem, which requires critical thinking skills of the participants. We discuss how incentives can have a negative affects on students’ motivation to practice. We end the podcast discussing how rubrics can get around physical incentives so students can focus on improving for themselves.

11 min
07/14/2015

Episode 9: Choice, Control, & Student Leadership

This episode focuses on instilling in our students a sense of ownership over the instrumental music ensemble by giving them some control through choices and student leadership. We discuss the idea of letting student choose repertoire and interpretation, as well as the effectiveness of administrative positions in the ensemble, such as section leaders and ensemble officers.

14 min

Welcome to Strike up the Band (and Orchestra!): Motivating Student Musicians. This podcast is a series of discussions about motivation in the instrumental music program. The participants are Luke Jones, Matt McKeever, and Jennifer Mishra. The podcasts were recorded on the University of Missouri – St. Louis campus.

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