Dr. Terry Bacon

Just sayin’

I know other parts of the country are headed back to school, but we’ve only been off for a month here in #WNY! Stop with the back to school stuff, it’s not time yet. In other news - my suPURRvisor is modeling proper #teacher behavior. #musiced #cat #mlt #giml

Excited to be teaching a pilot HYBRID Instrumental Level 1 PDLC this fall. This will be our first attempt to offer this content with a mix of online and in-person participation. #MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

Sometimes it’s good to enjoy Western NY in the summer. A lovely day on the #ErieCanal in #Spencerport. #WNY #NewYork #MusicEd #Teacher

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

More information may be found at www.giml.org about MLT, Audiation, & the Gordon Institute for Music Learning. OR... give me a shout. #MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

There are several organizations around the world that are supporting teacher development using MLT and research including those in the US, Canada, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Korea. #MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

Rather than being the focus of college professors there has been growing use of MLT as a framework for teaching and learning not only for MLT-related practices, but that of other approaches such as Orff and Kodaly. #MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

Fostering creativity and improvisation within musical context and guiding students to read with understanding rather than decoding are important aspects of these MLT practical applications. #MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

MLT itself is not a method but there are methods that have been created based on MLT.They are based on the idea that music is learned in a similar way as language & that audiation is the musical equivalent of thinking.#MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

Research by Gordon, his doctoral students, and others resulted in revisions with the most recent publication in 2012.Work has continued since Gordon’s passing with an International Conference held in Chicago last week.#MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

A little about my research area. Music Learning Theory is a research-based theory of how we learn when we learn music. MLT was first proposed by Dr. Edwin Gordon from his early research on music aptitude. #MusicTeachers #MusicLearningTheory #Audiation #MusicEducation #MLT #MusicEd #GIML

Happy bear cub playing in sprinkler is what every #bluesky timeline needs... 🐻🤗

Because every #bluesky timeline needs a yawning otter... 😅

Sound on... 😊

The face of a happy cat that was just informed of the concept of #summerbreak! #teacher #musiced #cat #thankgodWNYisfinallyonSummerBreak

Happy #caturday #bluecrew! Last weekend before the final week of school and 90-100 temps here in WNY. Currently feel like Tendi looks. #teachers #musiced

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

#NoKings #RochesterNY #Henrietta Calkins Road was lined all the way from Hylan Drive to Wegmans!

Here’s to all my #teacher #musiced friends. Still working hard here in NY until the end of the month. Thank goodness it’s the weekend and FDT!

Happy hug your #cat day! Give ‘em a hub and share their “joy.” #teacher #musiced #emotionalsupport

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

On this Memorial Day let us honor the sacrifice of so many by fighting for our democracy and freedoms today.

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Joseph Campbell

Happy #Caturday #bluecrew! Indoor concert season is over and outdoor concert season is around the corner. I present upset Tendi wanting her human home more. #musiced #teacher #lowerdecks #cat

Happy #caturday and one week of sharing my home with Tendi. She made grading final papers for my college students quite a challenge by continually trying to leap over my computer set up for the smallest of window ledges. #musiced #cats #teacher

So I caved. Meet Tendi! #cats #teacher #stressrelief

Your #musiced laugh of the day. Working on a #jazz chart with one of my 5th grade trombone lesson groups and they didn't do the marked glissandos. Told them they need to "rip it!!"

Kid replies "I’m used to ripping it in class, but not here!"

It’s always the #trombone players. #teacher #k12

Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

The Meidas Mighty showed up today 👏

Today is Economic Blackout day.

No big chains. No Amazon.

If you need to shop, then shop local.

MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...

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