{"id":60,"date":"2009-06-30T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-06-30T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T03:25:20","slug":"stickiness-in-music-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/stickiness-in-music-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stickiness in Music Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/bio.html\">Gladwell<\/a>.  Again.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/tippingpoint\/index.html\"><em>The Tipping Point<\/em><\/a>, Gladwell asserts that for a concept to tip (i.e., become a trend), it must be sticky: it must effectively attract adopters.  Simple enough in theory.  In practice, however, it&#8217;s quite complex.  <\/p>\n<p>For the past couple weeks I&#8217;ve been mentally outlining and writing my new Music Appreciation syllabus for the fall semester.  Though I&#8217;ve taught the subject for six semesters, it was as a T.A. and my syllabus and content adhered to the general outline of my bosses&#8217; syllabi.  Now I enjoy the opportunity, as professor, to have full autonomy.  (My only constraint is that I coordinate a <em>general<\/em> curriculum with another professor, who will be teaching separate classes on the same subject.)  This is very exciting, as I believe that, if taught correctly, Music Appreciation could serve as a welcome common ground for musicians and non-musicians alike.  (This is the subject I <em>want<\/em> to teach, more than any other.)<\/p>\n<p>More than content, though, my biggest concern lately is: how do I make the subject sticky?  What will engage the students to the point where it becomes more than just a required class, but something that&#8217;s relevant and they feel invested in?  While I still am very much a student of teaching, my consistently positive student reviews keep me from worrying about the mechanics of my teaching.  Instead, I focus on stickiness.  While I do have a number of possible solutions floating around in my head, I prefer they crystallize more before sharing them here.  But the question is important enough, I feel, that it needs to be presented, as it&#8217;s something that should be taken into consideration when teaching <em>any<\/em> subject.  What makes it sticky, and how can that be effectively translated to the student?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Gladwell. Again. In The Tipping Point, Gladwell asserts that for a concept to tip (i.e., become a trend), it must be sticky: it must effectively attract adopters. Simple enough in theory. In practice, however, it&#8217;s quite complex. For the past couple weeks I&#8217;ve been mentally outlining and writing my new Music Appreciation syllabus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}