Develop strategies for teaching popular music in the classroom. Learn improvisation, songwriting, and music technology to advance your instructional practice.
Develop strategies for teaching popular music in the classroom. Learn improvisation, songwriting, and music technology to advance your instructional practice.
This comprehensive specialization equips music educators with essential tools for teaching popular music in modern classrooms. The four-course series covers improvisation techniques, songwriting fundamentals, arranging skills, and music production basics. Led by experienced Berklee faculty, including Grammy-winner Gary Burton, the program combines theoretical knowledge with practical applications. Students learn to integrate popular music into their curriculum while meeting core learning standards, develop effective teaching strategies for improvisation and songwriting, and gain hands-on experience with music technology and production tools. The specialization is designed to enhance both classroom instruction and private lesson teaching.
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What you'll learn
Create effective lesson plans incorporating popular music into classroom teaching, master improvisation techniques and teaching methods for jazz and blues, develop strategies for teaching songwriting and arrangement, learn to use music technology for classroom instruction, understand how to create and record musical productions, apply social and cultural contexts in music education, integrate digital audio workstation skills into teaching.
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