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Sara Legath

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My parents emigrated from the Philippines in the 1970s. They were part of a professional class that came to the United States in a wave of Asian immigration after the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Like many immigrants, they came for a better life, for themselves and for their families. And so when they could afford to move to a better school district for my brother and me, they did.

This was the 1990s. Twenty-plus years later, I wonder how much has changed. Meanwhile, our society certainly has. According to census data, less than three years from now in 2020, students of color will make up the majority of the children sitting in our classrooms. Those schoolchildren will graduate and go on to work within and among the most diverse generation in history.

Inclusive practices consist of both curricular materials and teaching methods. It assumes that because the aim of education is to empower students, decisions regarding curricula or methods are always political in nature. When our teaching practices are not inclusive, we perpetuate systemic inequalities.

Of course, these questions are by no means exhaustive. Many educators have been doing this work longer and have written extensively and brilliantly about these issues (see list at the end for additional resources).

While these questions are structured in list form, inclusive practices cannot be reduced to a checklist. For example, an inclusive curriculum cannot be achieved by simply checking off a list of diverse authors and texts. Instead, inclusive practices must infuse every part of our pedagogy.

For the Professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, individuals must complete at least three years of acceptable teaching experience or its equivalent (540 full-time days). Full-time and part-time experiences are acceptable. Once an individual has been issued a Professional certificate, the experience requirement will be satisfied for any future Professional classroom teaching certificate applications. Descriptions of acceptable and unacceptable teaching experiences are provided below.

For certain experiences, a valid and appropriate teaching certificate must be held during the experience. An appropriate certificate is a certificate that matches the grade levels and subject area of the teaching assignment.

Experiences that require a valid and appropriate certificate include, but are not limited to: employment in a public school, BOCES, Early Intervention provider, or other position that requires certification in New York State; and employment in a public school in another U.S. state or U.S. territory. Please see the following list of acceptable teaching experiences for examples.

Substitute teachers in New York State who hold a valid teaching certificate or are working towards certification (i.e., completing at least six semester hours of college coursework per year), and are employed by a school district or BOCES for more than 40 days, must be employed in the area that they are certified or seeking certification, respectively.

Substitute teachers in New York State who do not hold a valid certificate, and are not working towards certification, cannot have more than 40 days of acceptable experience in a school district or BOCES in a school year except as described on the Substitute Teaching webpage.

Current Version for Mac: Classroom Maestro 5.0 is a universal application that runs natively on both Intel and M1 processors. Your purchase includes access to both the current version as well as the legacy version that runs on older operating systems. Classroom Maestro 5 features a resizable keyboard and many other new features.

Please note: This is the initial release of version 5 for Windows. It currently contains all of the features of the Mac version with 2 exceptions: (1) The optional display of note names above the keyboard and landmarks is not yet implement and (2) Special Display Options is currently limited to Single Note mode. These two features will be fully implemented in a free update later this year.

Upgrade Notice for Windows Users: If you purchased Classroom Maestro on or after January 1, 2021, we have added Classroom Maestro 5 to the Downloads area of your account. Log into your account to download version 5.

Upgrade Notice for All Users: If you purchased Classroom Maestro before January 1, 2021, you may purchase version 5 at a reduced price by following this procedure: Click here to log into your account. Then come back to this page. The price will be adjusted to the discounted price as appropriate. Add Classroom Maestro to your shopping cart and proceed to complete the purchase of the new version.

Classroom Maestro is your intelligent, musical servant who understands what key you are in and who knows how to spell notes correctly on the staff, using your choice of grand staff, treble clef, bass clef, or any of the five C clefs. And when you touch just a single key on your computer keyboard, Classroom Maestro will even display an analysis of the notes shown on the staff, including:

Conveniently switch between Classroom Maestro and Home Concert Xtreme to teach your favorite music methods and pieces in a group or private lesson. Use Classroom Maestro with Internet MIDI to teach musical concepts over the Internet!

In a typical classroom situation, you have to appeal to a variety of learning styles. Some students are aural learners and others are visual learners. Some learn better by rote and others learn better by establishing logical connections between concepts. Your challenge, as the classroom teacher, is to address all learning styles simultaneously.

Classroom Maestro is musically intelligent, knows how to spell notes correctly based on the current major or minor key signature, and is always ready to analyze single notes, intervals, scales, and chords.

As you play, an onscreen keyboard will display the keys that you press and the on-screen musical staff will display the notes. Ready to give a quiz? You can easily turn off the keyboard display and just show notes on the staff. Alternatively, you can show notes on the keyboard and disable the staff display.

Classroom Maestro uses traditional, western music notation. This means that every note in the chromatic octave has three possible spellings (except for G#/Ab which has just 2 possible spellings). You might be wondering, which spelling does Classroom Maestro use when you play notes on your MIDI keyboard?

Classroom Maestro always thinks in terms of a traditional major or minor key. You can easily and quickly set the current key and major/minor modality with a couple of key strokes on your computer keyboard. And, you can even hide the key signature if you wish. Classroom Maestro does the rest, following normal rules of music notation.

Would you like to display an entire chord progression? Activate Chord Progression mode and then just play the chords and pedal them in the way that a pianist would normally pedal them. Classroom Maestro will notate them beautifully and even produce an analysis.

Although Classroom Maestro works magically when you enter notes from a MIDI keyboard, you can also enter notes by clicking the on-screen keyboard with a mouse or by tapping the on-screen keyboard if it is displayed on an interactive whiteboard.

Using an interactive whiteboard is easy. Display the on-screen keyboard where you can reach it, either above or below the staff. Then double-tap the whiteboard to bring up a floating tool palette and move it to the edge of the screen where it is out of the way.

This is a fully functioning demo version of Classroom Maestro that will work for just 8 minutes at a time. You may launch it up to 30 times. We do not yet have a demo for Classroom Maestro 5 for Windows.

The Piano Pedagogy Technology Project Guide is a resource for college piano pedagogy instructors, written by George F. Litterst and Shana Kirk. It contains 16 term projects that may be assigned to piano pedagogy students. Each project can be completed independently by the students and shared with the class at the end of the term.

Yes! Classroom Maestro 5 is available for Windows. If you purchased Classroom Maestro on or after January 1, 2021 at a time when version 5 was not yet available for Windows, we have good news for you! We have added Classroom Maestro 5 for Windows to the Downloads area of your account.

Classroom Maestro 5 has a brand new look that includes a resizable, on-screen keyboard. It provides a choice of 6 keyboard styles, each of which can appear flat or 3D. There are four styles of pedals and seven choices of keyboard frame. These choices, combined with 10 background colors and four colors for the animated keys, provide over 13,000 graphic appearances.

If you are a Macintosh user who previously purchased Classroom Maestro, you are eligible for an upgrade price. The precise upgrade price is determined by whether you purchased Classroom Maestro on or after January 1, 2021 or whether you purchased it previously.

Classroom Maestro 3 for Windows is the most recent version of Classroom Maestro on the PC platform. It includes the core set of Classroom Maestro features that are available on the Mac. However, it does not include the instruments available in the Orchestra Edition nor the resizable keyboard that is available in Classroom Maestro 5 for Mac.

Yes. Many teachers use Classroom Maestro during individual lessons. Classroom Maestro provides an interactive, electronic display for both the student and the teacher. The teacher can use Classroom Maestro to quiz the student or to ask the student to demonstrate an understanding of note names, intervals, scales, or chords.

Position the on-screen keyboard above or below the staff as desired (where you can reach it), and use the on-screen keyboard to enter notes. The Tools palette has a button for freezing the notes onto the display.