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An Organization Of Study Units For Listening Lessons Based On Selected Material From The Rca Victor Record Library For Elementary Schools, Bessie R. Swanson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the contributions which the use of recorded music may make toward the fulfillment of the objectives of elementary school music education; (2) to determine the directions of musical growth to be fostered through, and some valid teaching principles relative to music listening activities in the elementary school classroom; (3) to make suggestions as to the teaching techniques and the organization of the selected recorded materials which may assist the classroom teacher in promoting a climate favorable to the development of maximum musical growth in each student.

A Survey Of Band Practice Incentives And Rehearsal Techniques In California Central Coast Counties High Schools, Earl Marshall Alcorn

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the most difficult problems for students of the teaching profession is that of formulating the best classroom procedure to follow under actual teaching conditions. Almost universally, young teachers find that the transition between their graduate period of training and their first position involves such a realignment of ideas in this regard as to be highly discouraging.

In their graduate study these prospective teachers learn many practices which are helpful to the problem, but which many times are based on an ideal situation, or one so nearly so as to be foreign to the immediate picture. In music, for …