The Midwest Clinic offers engaging professional development opportunities for band and orchestra directors around the globe. Graduate credit may be earned through VanderCook College of Music, which can be used for lane changes, recertification, or as elective credit toward VanderCook’s Master of Music Education degree.
For high school students, college students seeking licensure, or professional educators interested in graduate programs, there is also our College Night, which provides students and teachers alike the opportunity to visit with music school representatives of eighty of the nation's leading colleges, universities and branches of the United States Military.
Finally, attendees can also track their professional development hours by having their badges scanned at the start of clinics and concerts. Please note, only Professional and College Student registration types are eligible to receive a "Certificate of Participation" listing the events they have attended and the number of professional development hours they have completed.
College Credit - VanderCook College of Music
Make the most of your experience at The Midwest Clinic, International Band and Orchestra Conference! Earn one semester hour of graduate credit by attending clinic sessions and concerts at McCormick Place West, located at 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, December 18 - 21, 2024.
Special tuition pricing! As co-founder of The Midwest Clinic, VanderCook is able to offer special pricing for MECA students. A notebook summarizing and critiquing all sessions and concerts attended, including copies of all handouts, concert programs and other supporting materials, must be submitted no later than January 17, 2025.
Course requirements:
- Participants will be required to compile 6 session reports.
- Two session reports are required to be concert performances.
- Two session reports are required to be clinic sessions.
- Two session reports can be of the participants choosing (one of the participant choice session reports can include 1 hour of active engagement in the conference exhibit hall).
- Each session report will include the following
- Participants are to upload scans of handouts, concert programs, or share session links to Schoology (VCM On-Line learning platform) for each session.
- Participants are to develop written summary outlines of each session.
- Participants are to write personal reflection essay reports (2-3 pages) of each session.
Course work will be reviewed and graded by the MECA office at VanderCook College of Music.
COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION
The Midwest Experience: A Retrospective
1 graduate credit - Tuition: $180 (#8534C)
For additional information contact:
Joe Koppel, MECA Coordinator
VanderCook College of Music
3140 S. Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616-3731
(312) 788-1145 direct
(312) 225-5211 fax
[email protected]
www.vandercook.edu
www.facebook.com/VanderCookCollege