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Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Shelton earned his Master of Music in Music Education degree from the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University. Also, he attended Alcorn State and Southern Universities, where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree. Shelton began his teaching career in 2009. For the past ten-plus years, he has taught various sixth through eighth grade choral environments, music and technology, music for the special needs, and serves as department head for the creative and performing arts, at the middle school level, in the East Baton Rouge Parish School District, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Moreover, Shelton is a member of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), holds the title of coordinator of middle schools for the DeBose Fine Arts Festival; a fine arts program that features the talents of students in Baton Rouge's metropolitan area, and is a member of the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus.
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The purpose of this paper is to identify how technology integrated into the music classroom envir... more The purpose of this paper is to identify how technology integrated into the music classroom environment in the United States as well as how the implementation of technology affected music teaching and learning in the traditional classroom environment, today. The first section of this paper will focus on the historical aspects of the music classroom environment as it pertains to music at the conception of technology leading up to current practices and standards of music in the classroom environment. The historical ideas will address when technology first entered the music learning environment and why technology was incorporated into the traditional music learning environment. The second section of this paper will review current research studies that focused on the current implementation of technology in school music programs in the United States.
The purpose of this proposed research study was to investigate the efficacy of collegiate vocal m... more The purpose of this proposed research study was to investigate the efficacy of collegiate vocal music program training on pre-service and early post-service choir teacher experts. A survey questionnaire was designed based on the following essential questions: 1) Are collegiate preservice vocal music education majors fully prepared to teach the whole learner at the middle school level? 2) Are collegiate music programs training pre-service vocal music educators to teach the middle school learner? And 3) Is teaching middle school choir class, effectively, entirely left up to post-service choir teachers to learn by trial and error? Two choir teacher expert groups, in their first to fourth year of teaching middle school choir, were invited to participate in this study. The choir teacher expert groups are referred to as Group A and Group B. Group A (N = 3) consists of a small group of middle school choir teachers within the East Baton Rouge Parish School District and are members of the Louisiana Music Education Association (LMEA). Group B (N = 2) consists of a small group of middle school choir teachers that teach, regionally, across Southeast Louisiana and are members of LMEA. In order to conduct this research study, a two-section survey questionnaire was designed utilizing a modified Delphi mixed method process.
The purpose of this paper is to identify how technology integrated into the music classroom envir... more The purpose of this paper is to identify how technology integrated into the music classroom environment in the United States as well as how the implementation of technology affected music teaching and learning in the traditional classroom environment, today. The first section of this paper will focus on the historical aspects of the music classroom environment as it pertains to music at the conception of technology leading up to current practices and standards of music in the classroom environment. The historical ideas will address when technology first entered the music learning environment and why technology was incorporated into the traditional music learning environment. The second section of this paper will review current research studies that focused on the current implementation of technology in school music programs in the United States.
The purpose of this proposed research study was to investigate the efficacy of collegiate vocal m... more The purpose of this proposed research study was to investigate the efficacy of collegiate vocal music program training on pre-service and early post-service choir teacher experts. A survey questionnaire was designed based on the following essential questions: 1) Are collegiate preservice vocal music education majors fully prepared to teach the whole learner at the middle school level? 2) Are collegiate music programs training pre-service vocal music educators to teach the middle school learner? And 3) Is teaching middle school choir class, effectively, entirely left up to post-service choir teachers to learn by trial and error? Two choir teacher expert groups, in their first to fourth year of teaching middle school choir, were invited to participate in this study. The choir teacher expert groups are referred to as Group A and Group B. Group A (N = 3) consists of a small group of middle school choir teachers within the East Baton Rouge Parish School District and are members of the Louisiana Music Education Association (LMEA). Group B (N = 2) consists of a small group of middle school choir teachers that teach, regionally, across Southeast Louisiana and are members of LMEA. In order to conduct this research study, a two-section survey questionnaire was designed utilizing a modified Delphi mixed method process.