TEACHING IN CHINA
Jin Cai International School
May 2018 - Photos
Issac Eng Music teacher
WORKSHOPS
2016
• Kodaly Back to School Workshop. (August, London ON) Doing Away with Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions
GUEST CONDUCTOR
2015
• Training Choir - 2015 The Singing Network: Symposium on Singing and Song.
• Miami Dade All County Elementary Chorus
100 voice, auditioned choir (Miami Dade is 4th largest school district in US)
GUEST PROFESSOR
2018
• Loja, Ecuador - Sexta Edición del Festival Internacional de Música "Loja - Ecuador"
October 15 al 20. Daily 3-hour classes. Photos
- Pedagogy and musicianship with Conservatory Professors
- Children and youth attending Conservatory
- Pedagogy and musicianship with Music Teachers and music students
2016
• Guatemala – Universidad del Valle (UVG) and Ministry of Culture and Sports
- Working meetings and workshops with Ministry of Culture and Sports
- Working / Planning sessions with The College of Education Administration and Centre of Educational Research (Reflective teaching and Action Research)
- Working / Planning sessions with The College of Education Professors (Reflective teaching and Action Research)
- Working / Planning session with Music Faculty
- Public Conference: (Action-research and teaching)
2016
* Taiwan: National Taiwan Normal University. The Application of Kodaly Method in Choral Teaching
2015
• Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala - Week working with College of Education faculty and administration structuring Action Research Projects and curriculum development.
2013
• Innovación Y Creatividad En La Enseñanza Musical - Guatemala 3 day workshop with Music Teachers
Lugar: Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala
Días: 18, 19 y 20 de Julio
Overview Video
2012
• Boston University -- Political theory presentation and 2 day mentoring advising on thesis topics / development (August 2012).
2011
• PhD Seminar at Orebro University - Orebro Sweden.
• Graduate Seminar at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) - Music Education in a Global Context (June 2011, Porto Alegre)
2010
• Beijing Normal University – Kodaly Institute. One week teaching engagement with 40 music teachers from across China.
• The 8th International Philosophy of Music Education Symposium (PMER), Helsinki, Finland. One week, Pre-symposium International Doctoral Seminar. Worked with students in small groups as well as delivered presentation to entire group.
INVITED SPEAKER/WORKSHOP
2021
(Fall) Waterloo Iowa School District Elementary Teachers. “Social Justice at the Elementary Level”
(Fall) 12th Annual Northern New England Collegiate Symposium on Music Education. “Socially Just Engagements”
(Fall) Florida Southern College. “Socially just engagements: Learning to dialogue with the other”
(Fall) University of Connecticut (UConn) “Music Across the curriculum: Examining methods”
(Fall) REACH Conference (annual USC initiative intended to introduce approximately 250 youth in London and the broader community to post-secondary education opportunities)
2021 (May) University of Saskatchewan “’Methods’ and Social Justice”
2021 (April) Royal College of Music- Kensington, London, UK. “Social Justice in Music Education”
2021 (February) Boston University “Socially just engagements at the elementary level”
2021 (February) MESA: Music Education Conference “Teaching the Mature Student”
2020
(Fall) University of Connecticut (UConn) “Music Across the curriculum: Examining methods”
(November) University of Minnesota keynote
2019
(November) Teachers College, Columbia University. The Pursuit of Social Justice in Music Education
(April) University of Minnesota – Keynote: “A More Humane World: Pedagogy for the 21st Century”
2016
• Kodaly Kodaly Back to School Workshop. August 2016
• Royal Academy of Music (September 2016). Works at what? – The Purpose of Music Education.
• University of Toronto Music Department. (March 2016). The Graduate Department of Music Education Seminar. "Reading Methods."
GUEST LECTURER
2016
• University of Toronto. Discussion with Faculty and Graduate Students, “Reading” Methods (March 2016).
• Virtual Discussion with University of North Texas – Social Justice in Urban Settings (June 2016).
2015
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September 2015) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
• Crane School of Music (February, 2015) – Discussion of Chapter "Defining Ourselves as Other”
• University of Michigan – Graduate Seminar (Fabruary, 2015) – Discussion of Chapter “Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education”
2014
• University of Miami - Graduate Seminar (November, 2014) - Discussion of Chapter "Reading Methods"
• Arizona State University – Paper presentation to department and graduate students: “Sanctioned Repositories of a Hope: The Alignment of Standards” (April, 2014)
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September, 2014) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
2013
• Virtual Discussion with Penn State Doctoral Seminar (November 11, 2013) - "Capitalist Rationality: Comparing the Lure of the Infinite"
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September 2013) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
2012
• University of Miami - Graduate Seminar (November 2012) - "Uncovering a Question: Don't Ignore Those Nagging Thoughts"
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September 2012) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
• Virtual Discussion with Arizona State University (April 2012) - "Naming our Reality: Negotiating and Creating Meaning in the Margin"
* University of Miami, Doctoral Seminar (March 2012) - "The Problem of Bands"
• Virtual Discussion with Aaron Copland School of Music (February 2012) - Designing Music Curriculum (Discussion of my Chapter 7 Music Pedagogy: Frameworks for Practice)
2011
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
2010
• Virtual Discussion with Rider University, Westminster Choir College - "Processes of Alienation: Marx, Orff and Kodaly"
• Virtual Discussion with Aaron Copland School of Music - Designing Music Curriculum (Discussion of Chapter 7 Music Pedagogy: Frameworks for Practice)
• Virtual Discussion with University of Michigan - "Chasing Legitimacy: The US National Standards"
2009
• Virtual Discussion with UMass Lowell - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
• Virtual Discussion with Eastman School of Music – "Chasing Legitimacy: The US National Standards"
• Sibelius Academy, Helsinki Finland - Doctoral Seminar
2008
• University of Toronto - Doctoral Seminar
2007
* Teachers College, Columbia University - Doctoral Seminar
• Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ - National Standards in Music Education
2006
• Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ - Critical Theory
2005
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA - On-Line Curriculum Course
2004
• University of Alabama - Pedagogy and Methodology
Jin Cai International School
May 2018 - Photos
Issac Eng Music teacher
WORKSHOPS
2016
• Kodaly Back to School Workshop. (August, London ON) Doing Away with Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions
GUEST CONDUCTOR
2015
• Training Choir - 2015 The Singing Network: Symposium on Singing and Song.
• Miami Dade All County Elementary Chorus
100 voice, auditioned choir (Miami Dade is 4th largest school district in US)
GUEST PROFESSOR
2018
• Loja, Ecuador - Sexta Edición del Festival Internacional de Música "Loja - Ecuador"
October 15 al 20. Daily 3-hour classes. Photos
- Pedagogy and musicianship with Conservatory Professors
- Children and youth attending Conservatory
- Pedagogy and musicianship with Music Teachers and music students
2016
• Guatemala – Universidad del Valle (UVG) and Ministry of Culture and Sports
- Working meetings and workshops with Ministry of Culture and Sports
- Working / Planning sessions with The College of Education Administration and Centre of Educational Research (Reflective teaching and Action Research)
- Working / Planning sessions with The College of Education Professors (Reflective teaching and Action Research)
- Working / Planning session with Music Faculty
- Public Conference: (Action-research and teaching)
2016
* Taiwan: National Taiwan Normal University. The Application of Kodaly Method in Choral Teaching
2015
• Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala - Week working with College of Education faculty and administration structuring Action Research Projects and curriculum development.
2013
• Innovación Y Creatividad En La Enseñanza Musical - Guatemala 3 day workshop with Music Teachers
Lugar: Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala
Días: 18, 19 y 20 de Julio
Overview Video
2012
• Boston University -- Political theory presentation and 2 day mentoring advising on thesis topics / development (August 2012).
2011
• PhD Seminar at Orebro University - Orebro Sweden.
• Graduate Seminar at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) - Music Education in a Global Context (June 2011, Porto Alegre)
2010
• Beijing Normal University – Kodaly Institute. One week teaching engagement with 40 music teachers from across China.
• The 8th International Philosophy of Music Education Symposium (PMER), Helsinki, Finland. One week, Pre-symposium International Doctoral Seminar. Worked with students in small groups as well as delivered presentation to entire group.
INVITED SPEAKER/WORKSHOP
2021
(Fall) Waterloo Iowa School District Elementary Teachers. “Social Justice at the Elementary Level”
(Fall) 12th Annual Northern New England Collegiate Symposium on Music Education. “Socially Just Engagements”
(Fall) Florida Southern College. “Socially just engagements: Learning to dialogue with the other”
(Fall) University of Connecticut (UConn) “Music Across the curriculum: Examining methods”
(Fall) REACH Conference (annual USC initiative intended to introduce approximately 250 youth in London and the broader community to post-secondary education opportunities)
2021 (May) University of Saskatchewan “’Methods’ and Social Justice”
2021 (April) Royal College of Music- Kensington, London, UK. “Social Justice in Music Education”
2021 (February) Boston University “Socially just engagements at the elementary level”
2021 (February) MESA: Music Education Conference “Teaching the Mature Student”
2020
(Fall) University of Connecticut (UConn) “Music Across the curriculum: Examining methods”
(November) University of Minnesota keynote
2019
(November) Teachers College, Columbia University. The Pursuit of Social Justice in Music Education
(April) University of Minnesota – Keynote: “A More Humane World: Pedagogy for the 21st Century”
2016
• Kodaly Kodaly Back to School Workshop. August 2016
• Royal Academy of Music (September 2016). Works at what? – The Purpose of Music Education.
• University of Toronto Music Department. (March 2016). The Graduate Department of Music Education Seminar. "Reading Methods."
GUEST LECTURER
2016
• University of Toronto. Discussion with Faculty and Graduate Students, “Reading” Methods (March 2016).
• Virtual Discussion with University of North Texas – Social Justice in Urban Settings (June 2016).
2015
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September 2015) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
• Crane School of Music (February, 2015) – Discussion of Chapter "Defining Ourselves as Other”
• University of Michigan – Graduate Seminar (Fabruary, 2015) – Discussion of Chapter “Critical and Transformative Literacies: Music and General Education”
2014
• University of Miami - Graduate Seminar (November, 2014) - Discussion of Chapter "Reading Methods"
• Arizona State University – Paper presentation to department and graduate students: “Sanctioned Repositories of a Hope: The Alignment of Standards” (April, 2014)
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September, 2014) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
2013
• Virtual Discussion with Penn State Doctoral Seminar (November 11, 2013) - "Capitalist Rationality: Comparing the Lure of the Infinite"
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September 2013) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
2012
• University of Miami - Graduate Seminar (November 2012) - "Uncovering a Question: Don't Ignore Those Nagging Thoughts"
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts (September 2012) - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
• Virtual Discussion with Arizona State University (April 2012) - "Naming our Reality: Negotiating and Creating Meaning in the Margin"
* University of Miami, Doctoral Seminar (March 2012) - "The Problem of Bands"
• Virtual Discussion with Aaron Copland School of Music (February 2012) - Designing Music Curriculum (Discussion of my Chapter 7 Music Pedagogy: Frameworks for Practice)
2011
• Virtual Discussion with Chicago College of Performing Arts - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
2010
• Virtual Discussion with Rider University, Westminster Choir College - "Processes of Alienation: Marx, Orff and Kodaly"
• Virtual Discussion with Aaron Copland School of Music - Designing Music Curriculum (Discussion of Chapter 7 Music Pedagogy: Frameworks for Practice)
• Virtual Discussion with University of Michigan - "Chasing Legitimacy: The US National Standards"
2009
• Virtual Discussion with UMass Lowell - "Defining Ourselves as Other"
• Virtual Discussion with Eastman School of Music – "Chasing Legitimacy: The US National Standards"
• Sibelius Academy, Helsinki Finland - Doctoral Seminar
2008
• University of Toronto - Doctoral Seminar
2007
* Teachers College, Columbia University - Doctoral Seminar
• Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ - National Standards in Music Education
2006
• Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ - Critical Theory
2005
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA - On-Line Curriculum Course
2004
• University of Alabama - Pedagogy and Methodology
