Atlantic City
NJ
USA
2017 Eastern Division NAfME Conference – Friday April 7th 10:30 – 11:30 AM Room CC 404
Sandra Doneski’s Session: One for Singing – Singing for All
Research supports the premise that singing is a learned behavior, yet many students are not comfortable making music with their own instruments. Engage students as thinking musicians and teaching and learning can be transformed.
Sandra Doneski has been a teacher of music to students in Kindergarten through graduate school. She is Associate Professor of Music at Gordon College and Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Music Education. She teaches courses in music education methods, learning theory, assessment, curriculum development; supervises student teachers; and conducts the Gordon College Children’s Choir.
In 2009, Dr. Doneski was the recipient of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Lowell Mason Award and the Society for General Music in Massachusetts Excellence in General Music Award. In 2012, she was awarded the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Distinguished Service Award and in 2013 she received the Administrators in Music Education Visionary Leadership Award.
Dr. Doneski has published articles and conducted workshops on choral literature and techniques, curriculum development, assessment and mentoring. She recently co-authored a chapter in the MENC Handbook: Research on Teaching and Learning in Music Education titled Research on Elementary and Secondary School Singing.
She is a graduate of Gordon College and received her Master’s and Ph.D. in Music Education from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. She is a First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege Level 1 Teacher Trainer and was the first President of FAME from 2012 to 2015.