Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024
Subpart 1.
Scope of practice.
A teacher of vocal music is authorized to provide to students
in kindergarten through grade 12 instruction that is designed to develop vocal
music competence and understanding of general music history, theory, and
practice. A teacher of instrumental music is authorized to provide to students
in kindergarten through grade 12 instruction that is designed to develop
instrumental music competence and understanding of general music history,
theory, and practice.
Subp.
2.
Licensure requirements.
A candidate for licensure to teach vocal music or
instrumental music to students in kindergarten through grade 12 shall:
A. hold a baccalaureate degree from a college
or university that is regionally accredited by the association for the
accreditation of colleges and secondary schools;
B. demonstrate the standards for effective
practice for licensing of beginning teachers in part
8710.2000; and
C. show verification of completing a Board of
Teaching preparation program approved under part
8700.7600 leading to the licensure
of teachers of vocal music and of instrumental music.
Subp. 3.
Subject matter
standard.
A candidate for licensure as a teacher of vocal music or
instrumental music must complete a program under subpart
2, item C, that must include
the candidate's demonstration of the knowledge and skills in items A, B, D, and
E, or A, C, D, and E.
A. All music
teachers must have the ability to:
(1)
identify and analyze representative musical forms, styles, performance
contexts, performance media, and composers and compositions of western music,
and describe the musical traditions, context, and characteristics of diverse
and representative world cultures;
(2) demonstrate a basic knowledge of vocal
development and production and instrumental techniques and acoustics;
(3) perform simple keyboard accompaniments
and play parts from a musical score;
(4) demonstrate basic skills and techniques
for playing typical classroom instruments including recorder or fretted
instruments;
(5) demonstrate
competence in improvising, composing, and arranging music examples for diverse
developmental and ability groupings represented by students;
(6) demonstrate physical response to music
through movement or dance;
(7)
identify and reproduce intervals, scales, and chord structures;
(8) demonstrate a basic knowledge of
approaches to general music instruction, materials, and literature for students
of varying abilities;
(9)
demonstrate the understandings and skills necessary to choose appropriate
current technology and integrate its use into instruction for music classroom
and ensemble settings in kindergarten through grade 12; and
(10) demonstrate a basic knowledge of the
interrelationship of music with other art forms and disciplines.
B. A teacher of vocal music must:
(1) demonstrate advanced vocal ensemble
performance and advanced solo performance with the voice, keyboard, or guitar
and demonstrate musical accuracy and expressiveness using music examples from
diverse styles and time periods;
(2) demonstrate ability to accompany a vocal
ensemble on a keyboard instrument;
(3) interpret choral music scores with an
understanding of range, tessitura, phrasing, diction, and
articulation;
(4) interpret vocal
and instrumental scores and understand percussion, string, or wind instrument
requirements necessary for interpreting and producing music from
scores;
(5) know vocal and choral
instructional materials and solo and ensemble repertoire, representing diverse
periods and cultures, and beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels from
kindergarten through grade 12;
(6)
demonstrate understandings and skills of vocal performance pedagogy and vocal
health, including the child voice and the changing voice;
(7) rehearse and conduct small and large
vocal and choral performance ensembles; and
(8) improvise using keyboard or
voice.
C. A teacher of
instrumental music must:
(1) demonstrate
advanced solo and ensemble performance on at least one instrument of the
keyboard, percussion, string, or wind families and demonstrate musical accuracy
and expressiveness using music examples from diverse styles and time
periods;
(2) interpret scores
designed for instrumental ensembles and understand bowing, fingering, or
articulation specific to percussion, string, and wind instruments;
(3) interpret combined vocal and instrumental
scores and understand vocal requirements necessary for interpreting and
producing music from scores;
(4)
know instrumental instructional materials and solo and ensemble repertoire,
representing diverse periods and cultures, and beginning, intermediate, and
advanced levels;
(5) demonstrate
understandings and skills or performance pedagogy for percussion, string, and
wind instruments;
(6) rehearse and
conduct small and large instrumental ensembles;
(7) improvise by means of a keyboard,
percussion, string, or wind instrument; and
(8) understand the fundamentals of the
construction, operation, and repair of percussion, string, and wind
instruments.
D. All
teachers of music must demonstrate an understanding of the teaching of music
that integrates understanding of pedagogy, students, learning, classroom
management, and professional development. The teacher of music shall:
(1) understand and apply educational
principles relevant to the physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive
development of children, preadolescents, and adolescents;
(2) understand and apply the research base
for and the best practices of kindergarten or primary, intermediate, and middle
level and high school education;
(3) develop curriculum goals and purposes
based on the central concepts of vocal or instrumental music and know how to
apply instructional strategies and materials for achieving student
understanding of this discipline;
(4) understand the role and alignment of
district, school, and department mission and goals in program
planning;
(5) understand the need
for and how to connect students' schooling experiences with everyday life, the
workplace, and further educational opportunities;
(6) know how to involve representatives of
business, industry, and community organizations as active partners in creating
educational opportunities; and
(7)
understand the role and purpose of cocurricular and extracurricular activities
in the teaching and learning process.
E. All teachers of music must understand the
content and methods for teaching reading including:
(1) knowledge of reading processes and
instruction including the relationships between and among print processing
abilities, motivation, background, and discourse knowledge, cognitive
abilities, and reader's interest and how those relationships impact
comprehension; and
(2) the ability
to use a wide range of instructional practices, approaches, methods, and
curriculum materials to support reading and writing instruction including the
ability to develop and implement effective vocabulary strategies that help
students understand words including domain-specific words.
Subp. 3a.
Student teaching
and field experiences.
A candidate for licensure to teach vocal music and
instrumental music must have a broad range of targeted field-based experiences,
of a minimum of 100 hours prior to student teaching, that provide opportunities
to apply and demonstrate competency of professional dispositions and the
required skills and knowledge under this part and part
8710.2000.
Across the combination of student teaching and other
field-based placements, candidates must have experiences teaching the content
at three levels: kindergarten through grade 6, grades 5 through 8, and grades 9
through 12.
For initial teacher licensure, the student teaching period
must be a minimum of 12 continuous weeks, full time, face-to-face, in which the
candidate is supervised by a cooperating teacher, and evaluated at least twice
by qualified faculty supervisors in collaboration with the cooperating
teachers.
Subp. 4.
Continuing license.
A continuing license shall be issued and renewed according to
the rules of the Board of Teaching governing continuing licensure.
Subp. 5.
Effective
date.
The requirements of this part for licensure as a teacher of
vocal music or of instrumental music are effective on September 1, 2015, and
thereafter.