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E-mail:
Jody.Kerchner@oberlin.edu
Office:
Bibbins 106
Office Phone:
(440) 775-8267
Address:
77 W. College Street,
Oberlin, OH 44074
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Division of Music Education
Jody L. Kerchner
Director, Division of Music Education
Associate Professor of Music Education
"I feel quite fortunate to be able to combine my two passions in life - performing and teaching. I enjoy leading children to their own musical discoveries through singing, playing instruments, listening to music, or composing. I enjoy the challenge of rehearsing a choir, challenging the singers' musical interests, and helping them expand their understanding of various styles of music. Effective music educators are those people who enjoy working with others, "lighting children's musical fires," and continuing to strive toward attaining their own musical and pedagogical excellence. It was difficult leaving full-time public school music teaching, but I decided that working at the collegiate level was also an important task. It is here that I can train and inspire others to share their love for children, teaching, learning, and music. In fact, I have the best of both worlds - I work with middle school and high school students, while training the Conservatory students. Each day is always very new and exciting because of the students and the music!"
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Music Education (1987) and Master of Music in Vocal
Performance (1991), West Chester University; Ph.D. in Music Education
(1996), Northwestern University.
Professional Affiliations:
- Music Educators National Conference
- Ohio Music Education Association
- International Society of Music Education (ISME)
- ISME Music in the Schools & Teacher Ed. Commission
- American Choral Directors Association
- Editorial Boards of Music Educators Journal,
- Contributions to Music Education
Performances:
Kerchner is the director of the Women’s Chorale at the Conservatory of Music.
She is the former conductor of the Oberlin Youth Chorale, an extracurricular, auditioned SATB high school choir comprised of 60 singers from the Northern Ohio region. Kerchner has also performed as a professional choir member with the Robert Page Cleveland Singers and Chorale Delaware, as well as in capacities as a solo church musician. She continues to be invited as guest choral conductor, honors festival conductor and choral adjudicator.
Guest Conductor:
- 2006 - Ohio Music Education Association District IV Middle School Honors Choir
- 2005 - Pennsylvania Music Educators Assoc. Region V High School Honor Choir
- 2005 - Akron (OH) City Schools Elementary School Honor Choir
- 2003 - Lorain County (OH) Honors Choir
- 2000 - Pennsylvania Music Educators Assoc. District 10 High School Honor Choir
- 1997 - Franklin-Fulton County (PA) Middle School Honor Choir
Teaching Background:
Prior to moving to Ohio in 1996, Kerchner taught general and choral music (grades K-8) in Swarthmore, PA, and Winnetka, IL, for seven years. While in Swarthmore, she also served as her school’s “Gifted and Talented” program coordinator. One of Kerchner’s special interests in the elementary and middle school general music classes was to design school-wide related arts units.
Each Fall semester, Kerchner and students in MUED 300: Teaching Music to Adolescents, teach at the North Ridgeville Middle School, where they instruct students in sixth and seventh-grade general music classes. This is a partnership established in 1997. It is a pre-service music education field experience opportunity for Music Education majors in their junior or senior year.
Professional Presentations:
- MENC – 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004
- OMEA – 1996, 2000, 2004
- ISME World Congress Meetings – 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
- MISTEC (ISME Commission Seminar) – 2000, 2004
- Mountain Lake General Music Colloquium – 1998, 2000
- Research in Music Education, Univ. of Exeter, U.K. – 2005
- Conference in Music Learning & Teaching (MI) – 2005
Additional Teaching:
- Choral Methods, University of Connecticut—Storrs – 2002, 2005
- Franz Liszt Conservatorio, Quito, Ecuador – 2005
Kerchner’s publications primarily focus on her area of teaching and research expertise: children’s music listening and cognitive processing, portfolio assessment, college-public school collaboration, music teach identity development, empathetic leadership and incorporating the National Standards for the Arts into the classroom and rehearsal settings. Her articles have been published in Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, General Music Today, and Teaching Music. Kerchner is a co-author of Prelude to Music Education (2002), Erwin, Edwards, Kerchner, Knight). This textbook is intended for use in college introductory music education courses. Kerchner’s chapters are: Choral Music education, Secondary General Music education, Philosophy, and Exceptional Learners. Kerchner is also a contributing author to Musicianship in the 21st Century (2003, S.Leong, Ed.), and Reflective Practice in Arts Education (2006, Burnard & Henessey, Eds.).
Teaching Responsibilities at Oberlin:
Kerchner is the Director of vocal-choral and secondary general music specialist in the Music Education Division. Courses taught by her include: Teaching Music to Adolescents, Choral Methods, Choral Conducting, Music for Exceptional Learners, Review of Research in Music Education, Practicum Experiences in Music Education, and portions of Introduction to Music Education.
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