Resources
Inspiring quotations, frameworks, ideas and
resources for teaching and learning
Lautzenheiser (1992) identifies some qualities of successful
teachers:
- They are CARING.
- They show tremendous DEDICATION.
- They always HAVE TIME for their students.
- They have a good SENSE OF HUMOR.
- They can COMMUNICATE well.
- They ENJOY teaching.
- They show PERSONAL DISCIPLINE.
- They are FAIR.
- They demonstrate PERSISTENCE.
- They RESPECT their students.
— Tim Lautzenheiser, The Art of Successful
Teaching
What the hand does, the mind remembers.
— Maria Montessori
The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It
involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a
process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent,
not the teacher.
— Mortimer Adler
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions
for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
— Seymour Papert
...if teachers can communicate their reasons for
actually loving a certain kind of music, they have rendered a
useful service.
— Rose Rosengard Subotnik
...Fux truly realized that teaching means to impart
learning and that in order to assume his role as interpreter of
the past, the teacher himself must assume the role of disciple.
— Alfred Mann
...20 percent of the children in a certain elementary
school were reported to their teachers as showing unusual
potential for intellectual growth. The names of these 20 percent
of the children were drawn by means of a table of random
numbers, which is to say that the names were drawn out of a hat.
Eight months later these unusual or 'magic' children showed
significantly greater gains in IQ than did the remaining
children who had not been singled out for the teachers'
attention. The change in the teachers' expectations regarding
the intellectual performance of these allegedly 'special'
children had led to an actual change in the intellectual
performance of these randomly selected children.
— Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, Pygmalion
in the Classroom
Frameworks
- Bloom's Taxonomy (Anderson,
Krathwohl and Bloom 2001)
- Patricia Armstrong on Bloom's
Taxonomy {Vanderbilt}
- Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) (Gardner
1983)
- The components of MI {MI
Oasis}
- Howard Gardner on his Theory
of Multiple Intelligences (1997) {Edutopia}
- Youki Terada, Multiple
Intelligences Theory: Widely Used, Yet Misunderstood (2018) {Edutopia}
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) {CAST.org}
- Learning Guidelines {CAST.org}
Teaching & Learning Resources
- Columbia, Center for Teaching and Learning, Teaching
Resources {Columbia}
- Contemplative
Pedagogy
- Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence {Cornell}
- Active
Learning
- Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning {Harvard}
- Great
Teacher Videos
- Thomas
Kelly, First Nights {YouTube}
- Guides
to Teaching Writing
- The
Science of Learning
- Stanford Teaching Commons {Stanford}
- Blended
and Hybrid Teaching Guide
- University of California, Berkeley
- Center for Teaching &
Learning {Berkeley}
- GSI Teaching & Resource
Center {Berkeley}
- Learning:
Theory and Research
- Education:
Learning to Think in a Discipline
- University of Chicago, Teaching & Learning Resources {Chicago}
- University of Illinois, Center for Innovation in Teaching
and Learning {Illinois}
- University of Michigan, Center for Research on Learning and
Teaching {Michigan}
- University of South Carolina, Center for Teaching Excellence
(CTE) Resources {USC}
- Vanderbilt, Center for Teaching, Teaching Guides {Vanderbilt}
- Teaching
Problem Solving
- Yale, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning {Yale}
- Active Learning {Yale}
(Bonwell and Eison 1991)
Teaching Music Theory
- AP Music Theory {College
Board}
- Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy Journal
- Vol.
1-6; Vol.
7-present
- Gotham, et al., Open
Music Theory, v2
- IB Music {IBO}
- Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy {App
State}
- Lumsden and Swinkin, eds., The Norton Guide to Teaching
Music Theory {GBd}
(Lumsden and Swinkin 2018)
- Rogers, Teaching Approaches in Music Theory, 2/e {GB}
(Rogers 2004)
- Society for Music Theory (SMT), Music Theory Online
{MTO}
- VanHandel, ed., The Routledge Companion to Music Theory
Pedagogy {GB}
(VanHandel 2020)
By forming and developing a set of consistent
conceptual principles and a personalized belief system for
teaching theory from an awareness of the
similarities/differences and strengths/weaknesses of competing
systems, we simultaneously solidify our own values and open our
minds and ears to additional possibilities.
— Michael Rogers, Teaching Approaches in
Music Theory
Music, Science, Mathematics & Technology
- Acoustical Society of America {AcousticalSociety.org}
- American Mathematical Society {AMS.org}
- Mathematics and Music {AMS.org}
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Advancing
Education {acm.org}
- Association for Technology in Music Instruction {ATMImusic.com}
- Computational Thinking {CMU.edu}
(Wing 2006)
- Computational thinking, 10
years later (Wing 2016) {Microsoft.com}
- HoTEL (HOlistic approach to Technology Enhanced Learning) {Hotel-project.eu}
- Richard Millwood, Learning
Theory v6, a hypertextual concept map of established learning
theories {Richardmillwood.net}
- IRCAM Forum {forum.IRCAM.fr}
- ISTE Standards for Educators {ITSE.org}
- Mathematics Across the Curriculum {Dartmouth}
- Mathematical Association of America {MMA.org}
- National Science Foundation {NSF.org}
- Broader Impacts {}NSF.org};
Eduction {}NSF.org}
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression {NIME.org}
- Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (SMCM) {SMCM-net.info}
- STEM: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics {WP}
- Wolfram for Education {Wolfram.com}
Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for
everyone, not just for computer scientists.
— Jeannette M. Wing, Computational Thinking
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only
truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that
of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet
sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only
the greatest art can show.
— Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic
Intersections between music, mathematics, science, language,
philosophy, technology, and more
- Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks
at Harvard {GB}
(Bernstein 1976)
James Elkins, How to Use Your Eyes. {GB}
(Elkins 2000)
- Martin Gardner, Fractal Music, Hypercards, and More...
{GB}
(Gardner 1992)
Martin Gardner Tribute in MMA
Focus {MAA.org}
- James Gleick, Chaos: The Making of a New Science {GB}
(Gleick 1989)
- David Goodstein, The Mechanical Universe {YouTube
Playlist} (Goodstein 1985)
- Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe {GB;
PBS}
(Greene 2003)
- Brady Haran, Numberphile {YouTube
Channel; Website}
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach {Wikipedia}
(Hofstadter 1979)
- Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the
Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art {GB}
(Langer 1942)
- Leonard B. Meyer, Emotion and Meaning in Music {GB}
(Meyer 1956)
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos {WP}
- Grant Sanderson, 3Blue1Brown {YouTubeChannel;
Website}
Advancing Communication, Teaching & Learning
Art & Science in the Media
References
Anderson, Lorin W., David R. Krathwohl, Benjamin S. Bloom.
2001. A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A
revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives.
New York: Longman. {GBd}
Apostol, Tom M. and James F. Blinn. 1988-2000. Project
Mathematics! Video series by PBS/NASA/CalTech. {YouTube
Playlist; WP}
Bernstein, Leonard. 1976. The Unanswered Question: Six
Talks at Harvard. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {GB}
Bloom, Benjamin. 1956. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives,
Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay
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Bonwell, C., and J. Eison. 1991. "Active learning: Creating
excitement in the classroom." ASHE–ERIC Higher Education
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Burns, Ken and Lynn Novick. 1998. Frank Llyod Wright: A
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Calter, Paul. 2008. Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art
and Architecture. New York: Wiley. {GB}
Elkins, James. 2000. How to Use Your Eyes. New York:
Routledge. {GB}
Gardner, Howard. 1983. Frames of Mind: The Theory of
Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books. {GB}
Gardner, Martin. 1992. Fractal Music, Hypercards, and
More...: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American
Magazine. New York: SA. {GB}
Gleick, James. 1988. Chaos: The Making of a New Science.
New York: Penguin. {GB}
Goodstein, David. The Mechanical Universe...And Beyond.
Video series by Annenberg/CPB/CalTech. {WP}
Gotham, Mark, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian
Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, and John Peterson. 2020. Open
Music Theory, Version 2. Viva Press Publishing. Available
online at: https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/>.
Greene, Brian. 2003. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings,
Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
New York: Norton. {GB}
Hofstadter, Douglas. 1979. Gödel, Escher, Bach. New
York: Vintage Books. {GB}
Lautzenheiser, Tim. 1992. The Art of Successful Teaching:
A Blend of Content & Context. Chicago: GIA
Publications. {GB}
Langer, Susanne. 1942. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in
the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press. {GB}
Lumsden, Rachel and Jeffrey Swinkin, eds. 2018. Norton
Guide to Teaching Music Theory. New York: Norton. {GB;
Table
of Contents}
Mandlebrot, Benoit. 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature.
New York: Holt. {GB}
Mann, Alfred. 1958. The Study of Fugue. Mineola, NY:
Dover. {GB}
McKeachie, Wilbert and Marilla Svinicki. 2013. McKeachie's
Teaching Tips, 14th ed. Belmont, CA: Cengage. {GB}
Papert, Seymour. 1980. Mindstorms: Children, Computers,
and Powerful Ideas. New York: Basic Books. {GB}
Rogers, Michael R. 2004. Teaching Approaches in Music
Theory: An Overview of Pedagogical Philosophies, 2nd ed.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. {GB}
Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. 1996. Deconstructive Variations:
Music and Reason in Western Society. St. Paul, MN:
University of Minnesota Press. {GB}
______________________. 1991. Developing Variations: Style
and Ideology in Western Music. St. Paul, MN: University
of Minnesota Press. {GB}
Rosenthal, Robert and Lenore Jacobson. 1968/1993. Pygmalion
in the Classroom: Teacher Expectation and Pupils' Intellectual
Development. New York: Crown House Publishing. {GB}
Russell, Bertrand. 1918. Mysticism and Logic and Other
Essays. {Gutenberg.org}
Wilson, Edward O. 1999. Consilience: The Unity of
Knowledge. New York: Vintage Books. {GB}
Wing, Jeannette M. 2010. "Computational thinking, 10 years
later." Microsoft Research Blog 49/3 (March 23, 2016).
{Microsoft}
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of the ACM 49/3 (March 2006). {Carnegie
Mellon}
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Champaign, IL: Wolfram {Wolfram}
VanHandel, Leigh. 2020. The Routledge Companion to Music
Theory Pedagogy. New York: Routledge. {GB}
Credit: Word clouds created with Jonathan
Feinberg's Wordle {Wordle.net}
Updated: September 2, 2023
