To be an excellent teacher, you need to invest in yourself. As a music educator, you’re constantly reinventing and improving, upgrading and refining. The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) has myriad resources to help you enhance your skill set and do your job better and more easily. Check out the NAfME website at nafme.org to learn more about any of the following programs and offerings:
Attend the NAfME National In-Service Conference in Grapevine, Texas (near Dallas) November 10 to 13 to network with other teachers, learn about the latest methods, techniques, and thinking in the profession, and earn nineteen continuing education units (CEUs) for what you absorb. Grapevine is also the location of the All-National Honor Ensembles’ annual performances. Come and be inspired! For more information, check out the conference website here: bit.ly/Grapevine2016.
Free online resources from advocacy to lesson plans: Check out all that NAfME has to offer by perusing offerings available to you 24/7 as a NAfME member. And you can get professional credit for reading certain articles in Music Educators Journal starting with this issue! (See the note at the bottom of the first page of select articles.)
A wide range of webinars is available to you as well. These webinars are designed to deliver timely, relevant, and directly applicable content to you whether you view them at work, at home, on the go, or with your Professional Learning Community. A full list of webinars can be found in the NAfME store.
Content for webinars is provided by NAfME members from all over. In order to continue this invaluable resource, we need new content monthly. Do you have a great idea you would like to share with the entire membership of NAfME? Present a webinar. Proposals can be sent by following this link: bit.ly/NAfME-PD-Webinars.
The NAfME Store is always open for business at bit.ly/NAfMEstore—you might find just what you need! For useful publications, music education book titles and descriptions can be accessed at bit.ly/RowmanNAfME.
Make this summer and coming fall the best ever for your professional future!
—JJ Norman
Professional development manager, National Association for Music Education
