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Teaching and Administrative Experience

August 2007 – Present

Assistant Professor of Music & Director of Bands

Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Goodwell, Oklahoma

Courses Taught:

Music 1513:  Fundamentals of Music (annually)

Music 1523 & 1533:  First-year Music Theory (annually)

Music 1521 & 1531:  First-year Aural Skills (annually)

Music 2543 & 2553:  Second-year Music Theory (annually)

Music 2541 & 2551:  Second-year Aural Skills (annually)

Music 2312:  History & Literature of Music I (one time)

Music 3612 & 3622: Instrumentation & Orchestration (annually)

Music 3563: Forms and Analysis (annually)

Music 3723:  Composition (biennially)

Music 3733:  Counterpoint (biennially)

Music Education 2111 & 2121:  Woodwind Pedagogy (biennially)

Music Education 2211 & 2221:  Brass Pedagogy (biennially)

Music Education 2411: Percussion Pedagogy (biennially)

Music Education 3112:  Principles of Conducting (one time)

Music Performance 1211:  Concert Band (annually)

Music Performance 1511:  Mariachi Band (annually)

Duties included:  Teaching responsibility as instructor of record for all courses above including all aspects of course design and student evaluation.  Three courses (Music Theory I and III and Instrumentation) were taught online during Fall Semester 2007. 

 

Service: Curriculum Committee, Cultural/Entertainment Committee, Oklahoma Board of Regents Course Equivalency Plan Committee, Choral Search Committee (2007 & 2009), Staff Accompanist Search Committee (2008), student advising.

 

August 2007 – Present

Music Department Chair  and Acting Music Department Chair

Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Goodwell,Oklahoma

Duties included:  Student recruitment and advising, budgetary oversight, community relations, department scheduling, curriculum development, faculty recruitment and development, and preparation for accreditation renewal.

  September 2005 – June 2007

Graduate Teaching Assistant

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Courses Taught:

                        Music 221, 222 & 223:  First-year Music Theory

Music 225 & 226:  First-year Aural Skills

Music 421, 422 & 423: Second-year Music Theory

Music 424, 425 & 426:  Second-year Aural Skills

Music  293.01: Composition Elective (private undergraduate composition lessons)

Duties included:  Full teaching and grading responsibility for sections of Music Theory and Aural Skills.  Design of evaluations for second-year Music Theory.  Quasi-advising duties for students enrolled in composition elective, a course preparatory to the undergraduate composition major.

 

Service:  Graduate Music Student Association Theory/Composition Representative

 

 

August 2002 – June 2004

Vocal and General Music Teacher

Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City Schools, Sheffield Lake, Ohio

Choir and general music, grades 6-12; general music, grades K-1 and 4-5

 

June 2000 – June 2002

Band Director

Northeastern High School and South Vienna Middle School, Springfield, Ohio 

Band (marching and concert) and general music, grades 5-12

 

August 1999 – June 2000

Vocal Music Director

Northwestern Middle School and High School, Springfield, Ohio 

Choir, show choir and general music, grades 5-12

 

July 1998 – June 1999

Band Director

McEvoy Middle School, Macon, Georgia

Band, general music and physical education, grades 7-8