Faculty
Susan Kempter, Director, 505-277-1878, kempter@abq.com
Why Study Pedagogy?
More and more universities and public schools are looking for faculty with training in pedagogy.
Private teaching provides a stable, predictable income with flexible hours.
By developing an understanding of the means by which musical outcomes may be achieved, students of pedagogy often are delighted at the improvements in their own practice techniques and performance skills.
As school systems cut back on arts-based offerings, more and more enlightened parents are seeking music lessons from the educated studio teacher.
Benefit packages are currently available through professional organizations, such as the American String Teachers Association, the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and local Chambers of Commerce.
Why UNM?
Students majoring in Music Education can earn the Bachelor of Music Education, Bachelor of Music with Concentration in String Pedagogy and the Long Term Training credential from the SAA by taking only 25 additional hours! A big payoff for minimal hours.
The UNM Pedagogy program is flexible! It supports and augments studies in Education, Music Education, Performance, Child Development, and a host of others.
All students have the opportunity to teach children in the Suzuki Lab Program–both private and group lessons, and string orchestra–as the Lab School matures.
Teaching lab students can provide a good part-time salary for UNM students.
Lessons in the lab program are under the supervision and guidance of the pedagogy faculty and provide pedagogy students with support, feedback, and suggestions to improve their teaching.
Students may obtain the Long Term Training credential from the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
This is a comprehensive study of pedagogy and includes the approaches of Suzuki, Rolland, Havas, Galamian and others.
Students who are accepted into this Challenging and Exciting Program Will:
- Be able to observe highly skilled and experienced local string teachers
- Receive specific information on how to avoid injury while playing and how to teach their students to avoid injury
- Observe and teach patient education courses
- Be mentored by more experienced students and will mentor less experienced students
- Participate in all activities of the Suzuki Lab Program, such as workshops, parent meetings, children’s concerts and recitals, etc.
- Assist in the UNM Music Prep Orchestra
- Develop an understanding of child development, including teaching strategies and techniques appropriate to specific ones
- Learn the basics of running your own business: making a flier, creating a “studio policy”, systems for billing, keeping track of accounts, running recitals and concerts, etc.
