Mentoring new teachers is critical to music education, not only for purposes of retention and
attrition, but also to provide the support they need to become reflective practitioners …

Instrumental Music Education: Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony, Third
Edition, is intended for college instrumental music education majors studying to be band and …

This explanatory sequential mixed methods research study investigated motives and
purpose exhibited by professionals transitioning from careers in science, technology …

The purpose of this phenomenology was to examine the lived experience of being a first-
year music teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across two data waves, the first in …

The purpose of the study was to design an instrument to measure constructs of music
teacher identity. The Music Teacher Identity Scale (MTIS), a researcher-constructed data …

Preservice music teachers (N= 152) at six institutions were surveyed on their intent to enter
and remain in K–12 music teaching. Respondents provided favorable speculations for …

The two purposes of this study were to:(a) define music teacher identity and its underlying
constructs based on a critical examination of the extant research, and (b) develop an …

In this study, the author collected narratives from her students in a music teacher education
programme. Using narrative analysis, students' assumptions and thoughts about music …

In this article the authors analyze the mentoring of an alternate route beginning teacher to
better understand mentoring practices in alternative licensure programs and to identify how …

The purpose of this study was to describe novice band directors' perceptions of (a) the
importance of skills/knowledge competencies,(b) the difficulty of acquiring skills/knowledge …