There’s no doubt that having a grip on the latest technologies will always keep you in a good stead, and the same applies to music educators as well. Several top music schools/colleges are building a music lab equipped with advanced equipment to educate its Music Teachers in advanced learning technologies.
Vandercook College of Music builds Yamaha digital piano lab to educate Music Teachers
The VanderCook school of music believes that mastering the latest music education technologies will help their students to maintain fluency throughout their careers as teachers.
Music Lab
For that purpose they have built a lab armed with the latest music technologies:
- The Yamaha digital piano lab features ten Yamaha Arius YDP-S52 digital pianos, a Clavinova CVP-709 teacher’s model digital piano, a LC4 Lab Controller and Wi-Fi kit.
- The lab has been built so that music educators can teach students using a wireless network of headphones and microphones.
- Yamaha also set up Apple iPad interfaces that give music instructors wireless control of their classrooms via the exclusive Yamaha LC4 Controller App, a first in music lab technology.
The Wi-Fi kit allows the music teacher to move around the classroom to provide hands-on instruction, and can yet control the lab with an iPad, make notes on student performance and attendance, and do more.
The music lab is expandable to accommodate classes as large as 48 students, and offers multiple options for private practice, one-on-one instruction, small group study or full class ensemble performances. In the new piano lab, every student has access to high-quality keyboards that allow students to choose instruments to their liking. They can play in a group or individually (with or without their headphones).
While most schools have a music education major along with performance, music history and other majors, VanderCook’s graduates teach band, orchestra and choir in primarily middle and high schools.
The College of Music previously acquired seven Yamaha NU1 upright pianos for their practice rooms and two Yamaha grand pianos for classrooms. VanderCook is currently engaged in a fundraising campaign to purchase a Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand piano to be placed in the Hermann Hall ballroom on the ITT campus.
About VanderCook College of Music
The VanderCook College of Music, located on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago is an independent, not-for-profit, degree-granting institution. VanderCook’s curriculum has expanded over the years, though it remains exclusively focused upon music teacher education, the only such institution in the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.vandercook.edu/.
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