In the Music Education for Teachers specialization, you will explore ways of integrating popular music into your teaching. You'll begin by learning from two highly experienced teachers, Krystal Banfield, the Vice President of Educational Outreach for Berklee College of Music, and David Alexis a Berklee Professor and long-time instructor for the Berklee City Music Program. They will take you through their process of incorporating popular music, improvisation, arranging, and music technology into the classroom while still fulfilling the common core learning standards. You'll continue with a deeper dive into these topics that will help you build your popular music curriculum. In Jazz Improvisation taught by Grammy-winning Gary Burton, you'll learn how to use improvisation as language and story-telling. You'll also learn how to use a variety of chord scales, modes, and improv techniques. Next, in Arranging for Songwriters taught by renown Berklee faculty Bonnie Hayes and Sarah Brindell, you'll learn how to create arrangements of songs. Finally, in The Art of Music Production, taught by producer Stephen Webber, you'll learn how to begin to record music in a meaningful, yet approachable way. This specialization will give you the tools you'll need to develop effective, relevant, and compelling lessons for your classroom, online learning space, or private lesson instruction.
MM
we should have one on one vedio lessons with the tutors inorder to achieve even better learning process and also guidance.
KS
This is fun interactive class i am excited and what is to come and what I will learn from it.What a great instructor, he's very clear in teaching. I very much appreciate this.
JC
This is an excellent course, perfectly planned, motivating and inspiring. The teachers are impressive an there is a lot to learn in this course. I highly recommended. Thanks so much for this course!
CM
Excellent! Congratulations to Coursera and Berklee for bringing us these practical tips that surpassed my expectations really worth it and I will share with everyone this great content.
SY
I learned a lot from this course. thank you so much!
K
As a saxophonist, understanding chord tones and voice leading is challenging. However, Gary Burton is the epitome of professionalism and simplicity. I gained so much.
AM
This course provides me to learn more about song arrangements and helping to my ongoing projects.Thanks Coursera and my Mentors Sarah Brindell and Bonnie Hayes.
SL
I'm really enjoyed The Art of Music Production Course and got lot of basic knowledge about Music Production terminology. I'm Highly recommend this essential guide for music producers
RR
A well-thought-out course that dwells into the formalization of the music education ecosystem with assessments, technology, and lesson objectives.
SK
I like its its pushing me to think and motivate myself for progress...and I'm only just in the initial stages ..so from the beginning it has my enthusiasm.
BM
 That was a great course, especially for beginners.
LQ
This course was absolutely fantastic! I really love how well organized and thought out all of the lectures and assignments were. This has really helped encourage me to continue pursuing music =)
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Excellent course! Great for educators. Enables and with various ideas and concepts guides the teacher on what to focus and what course of action to take in a lesson. The course takes into account one's culture without putting any one idea or style on a pedestal which everyone has to follow.
Excellent work, thanks for sharing, this course gives me tools to work with my students remotely and when possible in person
I highly recommend this course for music teachers! Many interesting thoughts and great approach to different topics.
It's an opportunity to step out of the box and create a culture of open-minded music educators.
I wish it could be longer and with more videos of ALEXIS teaching. He is an inspiration!
It gives valuable points to take in consideration for teaching.
Great for teachers with experience or for people who want to teach in the future.
The downside is the final project. It took me two weeks to get it reviewed, it was frustrating.
Thank you for the course! It was short, but I had some ideas during that for my own experience. I expected a bit more, but I guess, it is ok.
Nice course and very good instructors
The course is really nice however I feel it was lacking some depth. I am talking in comparison with other Berklee courses offered on Coursera (on other topics) and which offer many more insights and learning opportunities.
Video tutorials covering apps could be a bit more.
The course covered a wide range of topics related to music education, including assessment and rubrics. I appreciated how the instructors emphasized the importance of using rubrics to evaluate student progress and provide feedback on their work. Overall, I feel much more confident in my ability to teach popular music in the classroom thanks to this course. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to expand their teaching skills!
Excellent course! Teaching Improvisation, working with and setting up an ensemble, basics of improvisation, technology, songwriting, arranging, using DAW for both recording tracks as well as used for rehearsal backing tracks, teaching the wide cultures of music across the U.S.
Me gustó mucho el curso, me mostró recursos que no había implementado en mis clases y la forma en cómo tener control y creatividad en la clase de ensamble.
el curso es excelente, muchas gracias por permitirme hacer este curso, me gustaria mucho que estuviera subtitulado a español todo el curso.
gracias
A well-thought-out course that dwells into the formalization of the music education ecosystem with assessments, technology, and lesson objectives.
Very helpful for me as a music teacher who teach in a large number of studetns's class. An definitely upgrade!
I really loved the approach of this course and have enjoyed everything. Thanks again!
This is a great course for any performing musician looking to get into the classroom.
Excelente curso, excelentes ejemplos. Grandes maestros.
Very helpful. I'm so happy with what i've learnt here.