N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 507.38

Current through Register No. 45, November 7, 2024

Section Ed 507.38 - Music Teacher

The following requirements shall apply to the certification of a music teacher in grades K-12:

(a) To be certified as a music teacher, the candidate shall have at least a bachelor's degree.

(b) A candidate for certification as a music teacher shall have the following skills, competencies and knowledge through a combination of academic experiences and demonstrated competency and equivalent experiences in the following areas:

(1) Personal musicianship and performance ability including:

a. Performing as a soloist and as a member of a musical ensemble accurately and expressively from notation either vocally or instrumentally;

b. Improvising to a structured harmonic accompaniment, in a variety of styles, including but not limited to jazz;

c. Playing and transposing on;

1. Piano; and

2. Guitar;

d. Conducting representative musical literature; and

e. Researching, planning, and presenting a musical performance;

(2) Aural skills and theory including:

a. Hearing and correcting individual parts;

b. Aurally recognizing a variety of historical and contemporary musical forms and genres;

c. Sight singing;

d. Notating music from listening;

e. Reading and writing music in:

1. Traditional notation using a variety of clefs; and

2. Non-traditional notation;

f. Making common transpositions;

g. Analyzing formal and expressive elements in written music; and

h. Composing and arranging music;

(3) Music history and culture including:

a. Describing the development of Western art music beginning with The Middle Ages;

b. Analyzing the role of music in a variety of cultures; and

c. Describing the music of a variety of cultures;

(4) K-12 general music pedagogy including:

a. Develop in students the ability to read and write music in traditional and non-traditional notation;

b. Guide students to express themselves musically through singing, playing instruments, moving purposefully, improvising, composing and arranging;

c. Develop in students the ability to describe, analyze and evaluate music and musical performances through a variety of methods including guided listening;

d. Create sequential instruction in music history, its role in culture, and its relationship to other disciplines;

e. Design standards-based curriculum, planning and instruction and assessments including modifications to meet the needs of all learners;

f. Use competency-based assessment strategies to determine and communicate student progress and achievement;

g. Work with colleagues to provide inter-disciplinary instruction;

h. Describing and advocating for a comprehensive K-12 music program; and

i. Use current technologies and multimedia to:

1. Plan and prepare instruction;

2. Deliver instruction;

3. Provide opportunities for music students to create, perform, and respond; and

4. Amplify and augment performance; and

(5) K-12 music performance pedagogy including:

a. Develop in students the ability to sing and perform expressively alone and with others at a beginning level in healthy, age appropriate ways including:

1. Tone production in the general and extended ranges of the voice including the changing voice;

2. Vocal techniques, including, but not limited to diction, breathing, and posture; and

3. Varied repertoire;

b. Develop in students the ability to play and perform expressively alone and with others at a beginning level on classroom instruments, beginning band, and orchestra instruments in healthy, age appropriate ways including:

1. Tone production;

2. Articulation;

3. Fingerings; and

4. Transposition for commonly used instruments; and

c. Instruct, rehearse, assess and refine either:

1. Vocalists throughout their school career and in performances of choral music with knowledge of advanced techniques of:

(i) Tone production in the general and extended ranges of the voice including the changing voice;

(ii) Vocal techniques, including, but not limited to diction in English and in foreign languages; and

(iii) Varied repertoire, including music of four or more parts, accompanied or a cappella; or

2. Instrumentalists throughout their school career in performances including advanced techniques of:

(i) Tone production;

(ii) Articulation;

(iii) Fingerings, including alternate fingerings; and

(iv) Transposition for less commonly used instruments.

N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 507.38

#7924, eff 7-24-03; amd by #9306, eff 10-25-08; ss by #9939, INTERIM, eff 6-9-11, EXPIRED: 12-6-11

New. #10130, eff 5-18-12