2015 OMF Session List
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KEYNOTE
Scott Sheehan
Session Title
Presenter Name
SESSION A
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Teaching Can Be
Fun Again with
Quaver!
Singing in Tune
Rhythmic Creativity:
Steps to
Improvisation
Spotlight on PreService Teachers:
Voices From the
Field
Am I Being Graded
on That? Standards
and Assessment in
Instrumental Music
Folksongs for High
School Choirs: A
Reading Session
Beyond the Method
Book: Developing
Musicianship in
Beginning Band
SESSION B
Unleashing
Creativity for
Improvising and
Composing
“Speed
Interviewing” –
Refine Your Skills
to Get a Great Job!
Working with
Eastern Division
President
Presenter Email
Tech Needs
Session
A/B/C
Catherine Dwinal
catie@quavermusic.com
Projector/Screen/Speakers
A
General
Denise Gagne
Dgagne1@gmail.com
A
General
Julian Gerstin, PhD
julian@zabapmusic.com
Screen, projector, computer
speakers, cordless mic
Piano
A
HS
Erin Zaffini
ezaffini@keene.edu
CD Player or iPod Doc with
Speakers
A
College
Scott Sheehan
NAfME
scott_sheehan@verizon.n
et
A
MS/HS
Sandra Howard/Susan
Wilkes
(Sponsored by
NHACDA)
Chad West (Ithaca
College) Sponsored
by NHBDA
Showard1@keene.edu
Piano/Music Stand
A
HS Vocal
cwest@ithaca.edu
Projector/Speakers/screen
A
Instrumental/Beg
inner
11:00 a.m. – 12:15
p.m.
Andy Reiner
andyreinerfiddle@gmail.com
Internet/Speakers
B
HS
Sandra Howard
Showard1@keene.edu
50 chairs in double circle
format
B
College
Joe Mundy
jmundy@pelhamsd.org
Screen
B
Instrumentalist
Beginning
Percussionists
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Beginner
B
B
ALL
Projector/screen/speakers
B
General/MS
Dan.albert79@gmail.com
Projector/Internet/Screen/Spea
kers/whiteboard (largest we
can find)
B
HS
Dgagne1@gmail.com
Screen, projector, computer
speakers, cordless mic
B
General
Music/Elementar
y
Projector/screen
C
HS
Eric Kobb and
Jennifer Ramsay
seanfmeagher@gmail.com;
Marcia.McCaffrey@doe.nh.go
v
ekobb@sau16.org;
jramsay@sau16.org
Projector/internet/screen/speak
ers
C
General
Christopher Klaxton
klaxto@hotmail.com
Piano/speakers
C
Instrumental/HS
Dan Ciccarello
Daniel.w.ciccarello@gmail.co
m
Projector/screen
C
College
Erin Zaffini
ezaffini@keene.edu
Projector/screen/internet/cd
player or iPod doc with
speakers
C
General/Early
Childhood/Elem
entary
Finding Your Fire
for Advocacy
Do Mobile Devices
and Music Class Go
Together?
How Else Can I
Teach Music?
Improving the
Ensemble Learning
Experience
Centers in the Music
Room
Scott Sheehan
NAfME
Catherine Dwinal
Catie@quavermusic.com
Daniel Albert
Denise Gagne
SESSION C
2:45 p.m. – 4:00
p.m.
NH Model Arts
Graduation
Competencies
Dinner with Emeril
Lagasse and Julia
Child: Curriculum,
Standards,
Assessment and
Grading Can Be
Tasty!
Jazz Talk: Open
Forum for Jazz
Educators
Be Prepared: The
Student Teaching
Experience Panel
Early Childhood
Music: More than
Just “Old
MacDonald Had a
Farm”
Marcia McCaffrey
and Sean Meagher
SESSION A
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Teaching Can Be Fun Again with Quaver!
Catherine Dwinal, Quaver
Music
Singing in Tune
Rhythmic Creativity: Steps to Improvisation
Spotlight on Pre-Service Teachers: Voices From the
Field
Am I Being Graded on That? Standards and
Discover how Seriously Fun Teaching and
Learning can be! This fast-paced tour of the
Quaver K-5 and the new Quaver 6 – 8
General Music programs will provide a quick
overview, new updates, sample lessons, and
technology tips for auto-assessments, mobile
devices and more!
Denise Gagne, MusicPlay
Many students come to school having heard
Teachers
only pop music for vocal models. How do
you move those children out of chest voice
and into the child’s head voice? Learn to use
props, puppets and games that children love
to help develop the singing voice. Activities
in this session will include Melody the
Elephant, the Jelly Bean Dance, spooky
voices, the Big and Little puppets, yarn
sound compositions, and some great new
singing games.
Julian Gerstin, PhD, Keene
A systematic approach to using rhythm in
State College and Vermont Jazz improvisation, including melodic
Center
improvisation. Using clapping and voice, we
build variations on simple rhythmic patterns,
work with “guide patterns” in world music
such as clave, apply these concepts to simple
melodic lines, and learn to develop rhythmic
motifs from a jazz tune’s head
Erin Zaffini, Keene State
This session of panel discussion will feature
College
music teachers who have recently entered the
field within the last few years. The panel
will share their own personal experiences
making the transition from college student to
teacher, their insights into their first few
years of teaching, and their experiences
within their new roles as professionals.
Opportunities to meet the teachers and ask
questions will also be given.
Scott Sheehan
Assessment in Instrumental Music
Folksongs for High School Choirs: A Reading
Session
NAfME, Eastern Division
President
Sandra Howard, Keene State
College/Susan Wilkes,
Manchester High School West
(Sponsored by NHACDA)
Beyond the Method Book: Developing Musicianship
in Beginning Band
Chad West (Ithaca College)
Co-Sponsored by NHBDA
SESSION B
Unleashing Creativity for Improvising and
Composing
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Andy Reiner, Louisville, CO
“Speed Interviewing” – Refine Your Skills to Get a
Great Job!
Sandra Howard, Keene State
College
Working with Beginning Percussionists
Joe Mundy, Pelham High
School
This repertoire reading session will focus on
folksong arrangements for high school
choirs. Attendees will receive a
complimentary reading packet from J.W.
Pepper & Sons.
How many times have we pleaded with
students to subdivide? How often have we
wondered why students can't hear that
missed accidental? While our students
generally do a great job with technique and
notation, many are missing the internal
musicianship components that enable highlevel ensemble participation. This session
presents activities for developing students’
tonal, rhythmic, creative abilities all while
developing their instrumental technique and
notation reading abilities.
Freedom from fear: Andy Reiner will
introduce workshop-tested strategies for
improvisation and composition that enhance
musicianship in any style, on any instrument
and at any age while working to cultivate a
healthy musical attitude – removing mental
barriers and freeing ourselves and our
students to be creative musicians
This ‘speed interviewing’ session is focused
to provide pre-service music educators with
multiple interview question scenarios
facilitated by NHMEA leaders who serve in
roles of music educators, supervisors, and
administrators. Each participant will be
introduced to specific interview questions
and
scenarios, and receive feedback on
the content and delivery of their responses.
The fundamental techniques that young
percussionists need to develop are not being
taught through standard beginning ensemble
Finding Your Fire for Advocacy
Scott Sheehan
NAfME
Do Mobile Devices and Music Class Go Together?
Catherine Dwinal, Quaver
Music
How Else Can I Teach Music? Improving the
Ensemble Learning Experience
Daniel Albert, Michigan State
University
Centers in the Music Room
Denise Gagne, MusicPlay
Teachers
SESSION C
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
NH Model Arts Graduation Competencies
Marcia McCaffrey and Sean
method books. This session will focus on an
approach to teaching young percussionists
that helps to prevent the musical and social
‘gap’ between the percussionists and
everyone else from ever forming, ultimately
leading to a more musical, talented, and
engaged percussion section.
Music educators are by nature good leaders.
Based on a proven system, reveal your
unique leadership characteristics and learn
how to apply them as you strive to become a
more effective teacher/leader. You will leave
this session with a greater understanding of
some popular leadership models and your
personal leadership style.
Let Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music
give you a peek into what’s coming (and
what’s already here!) Save time, integrate
across the curriculum, and present a fastpaced, interactive, student-driven lesson
everyday – no matter what tablet or device
students bring into your room.
Ever wonder how you can teach music
besides having your students learn to play
traditional repertoire? We’ll explore ways to
infuse music technology, informal music
learning, and composition/arranging with
existing ensemble teaching techniques. This
approach will not only improve individuals’
musicianship skills, but also improve your
ensemble’s performance skills.
In this session, participants will get to try
activities that work well as centers in the
music room. Activities to teach rhythm,
dynamics, tempo, note names, recorder,
composing and listening will be included in
this session. You’ll see how children can be
engaged and directing their own learning
This session is an unpacking of New
Meagher
Dinner with Eric and Jen: Curriculum, Standards,
Assessment and Grading Can Be Tasty!
Eric Kobb and Jennifer
Ramsay, Stratham Cooperative
Middle School
Jazz Talk: Open Forum for Jazz Educators
Christopher Klaxton, Plymouth
State University
Be Prepared: The Student Teaching Experience Panel
Dan Ciccarello, Londonderry
School District
Early Childhood Music: More than Just “Old
MacDonald Had a Farm”
Erin Zaffini, Keene State
College
Hampshire’s new Model Arts Graduation
Competencies. We will discuss the policies,
process, and alignment to Ed 306 and
National Core Arts Standards. We will also
take a look at how these new competencies
may be applied to the classroom.
Join us for a delectable four-course meal!
Executive Chefs Kobb and Ramsay will
invigorate your palate starting with an
apertivo of the new National Core Arts
Standards followed by a savory entrée of
curriculum writing served with a succulent
contorno of assessments. The meal will
conclude with a scrumptious dolce of
standards based grading. Before you leave,
we hope you will participate in our
digestivo, an opportunity to share what you
are doing in your kitchen!
This open discussion/clinic will include
topics on teaching the jazz language from
middle school jazz
band and on. Topics include but are not
limited to: swing feel, improvisation,
recruitment and retention
This session is geared towards college
members preparing for their student teaching
experience. In this session, presented by a
panel of music teachers who have recently
student taught, you will learn not only how
to be best prepared but also how to get the
most out of your student teaching experience
so you can go on to be the best teacher you
can be.
Musical development in early childhood
(birth to age five) differs greatly from
development for children in their elementary
school years. Music aptitude fluctuates
greatly for children during their earliest
years. Come learn some basic premises
behind early childhood music, as well as
songs and activities that can help you harness
the musical potential of your youngest
students!