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MEET THE full time MUSIC EDUCATION FACULTYBeth BoltonAlison ReynoldsDeborah SheldonDarrel WaltersBeth Bolton, Associate Professor
Dr. Bolton is also an active speaker and presenter at conferences including keynote and other invited lectures in the United States, Australia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, and New Zealand, and Singapore. She is the international conference chair for the annual Lithuanian International Music Education Conference and is honorary president of the Italian early childhood music association, Musica in Culla. Dr. Bolton is co-author of the Jump Right In music curriculum for elementary schools and Music Play, a music curriculum for early childhood. She has composed more than 300 original songs for children, many of which have been recorded internationally. These are available in the Childsong Collections. Dr. Bolton has three children, Stephan, Barbara, and Elisabeth, and two grandchildren, Olivia and Reilly. Her hobbies include fly fishing, which she has enjoyed in small water in Pennsylvania and big water in Colorado and New Zealand, photography, gardening, painting, and F1 racing (as an observer, not a racer). Dr. Bolton's Thoughts on Music Education at Temple: "In my nearly 20 years at Temple, I have encountered many school administrators and cooperating teachers who are eager to place Boyer music education student teachers and graduates in their schools. They speak glowingly about the quality of our program and our students’ high level of musicianship, knowledge, teaching skill, and integrity. Our graduates are teaching in some of the finest school districts in the area and many of our former graduate students have become university professors and leaders in the profession. Our faculty are known and respected in the region and in the national and international community. Boyer music education students belong to a time-honored tradition of excellence." Alison Reynolds, Associate Professor
Dr. Reynolds earned a Bachelors in Music Education from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, and a Masters and Ph. D. in Music Education from Temple University. She began teaching at Temple University in 2001, after having taught at the University of Southern Mississippi (1998-2001) and Ashland University in Ohio (1993-1998). At Temple, she has taught Curricular Options, Assessment, Music Learning Theory, Teaching General Music, and graduate courses Research in Music Education, and Learning Theory in Music. Dr. Reynolds has supervised student teachers, and advised, chaired, or served on numerous graduate students’ final project and dissertation or monograph committees. She provides academic advising to undergraduate and graduate students. Since 2002, she has served as advisor to Boyer’s Chapter of the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference Group, a responsibility she also enjoyed at USM and AU. She is a member of the Institutional Review Board, Committee B; Undergraduate Curriculum and Policy Committee, Admissions Committee, and serves as Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District XII Higher Education Representative. While at Temple, Dr. Reynolds has published research in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Research in Music Education, and Journal of Music Teacher Education. Since 2002, she has served as an editorial review board member for Research Issues in Music Education. She has presented her research at venues such as International Society for Music Education (ISME), MENC: The National Association for Music Education, Keokuk II: The MENC Centennial History Symposium, International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, MENC All-Eastern Division Conference, New Directions Conference, International Service Learning Research Conference, and International Conference on Civic Education Research. She has presented sessions at the international, national, regional, state, and regional levels. In 2004 she and Dr. Gan Wang of Beijing China formed a research and teaching collaboration, Little Oak Children’s House and Boyer College of Music and Dance: Sound Partners in Early Childhood Music Education. Dr. Reynolds is co-author of Jump Right In: The Music Curriculum, Revised Edition, and Music Play: Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers (an Early Childhood Music Curriculum that has been translated into Korean, Lithuanian, and Chinese). Dr. Reynolds’s husband Patrick is a photographer who loves to travel, cook, read, watch films, and hang out with his family and friends, and her son, Oliver, is a third grade student. He shares his dad’s interests—but would rather eat his dad’s cooking than do the cooking—plays sports and Nintendo games. The accompanying photos are by Patrick, and show Oliver supporting his family and friends—including Dr. Reynolds, Holley Haynes (MM 2006), and Anna Preston (MM 2007) on The Great Wall of China; Oliver giving a workshop participant a Hershey’s Kiss at the end of the 2006 3-day workshop for early childhood music teachers (Dr. Gan Wang is on the far left. This was Anna’s and Holley’s second trip to Beijing); and Dr. Reynolds teaching in Beijing and at Temple University. Dr. Reynolds' Thoughts on Music Education at Temple: “Temple University is such a dynamic place to live, work, learn, teach, and play! Being a member of the Boyer faculty and enjoying the interactions with diverse people who love music and dance each day fuels my passion for what I do. I have enjoyed traveling with, teaching with, presenting and publishing with, and learning from my students—current and former—and I love hearing from and seeing Boyer graduates as they continue to enjoy their lives! To work in vibrant Philadelphia near places like Reading Terminal Market, Kimmel Center, Art Museum, and Fairmount Park—to name only a few examples—promises experiences that extend and supplement learning with people from Philly, and from all over the world. Come check us out!” deborah sheldon, professor and chair
Deborah Sheldon earned the Bachelor of Science in Music Education at Mansfield (PA) University, the Master of Education in Music at Pennsylvania State University, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education at Florida State University. Her areas of specialty include instrumental conducting, wind band literature, rehearsal techniques and teaching methods, assessment, research, music psychology, behavioral techniques, and systematic observation. She advises undergraduate and graduate students in music education, and directs research. Sheldon has authored numerous articles in music education, pedagogy, and research in journals such as the Journal for Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (CRME), Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Journal for Music Teacher Education, Journal of Music Therapy, Music Educators Journal, Journal of Band Research, The Instrumentalist, and Contributions to Music Education, as well as in several state music education journals. She is an instrumental editor, arranger, author, and consultant for the FJH Music Company. Sheldon is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Research in Music Education. A past editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, she continues to serve the Bulletin as an editorial board member. She maintains a regional, national, and international profile through ensemble adjudication, conducting, workshops, and research dissemination forums. The Illinois Music Educators Association have honored her with the Distinguished Service Award. Mansfield University has recognized her as a distinguished alumnus. Dr. Sheldon's Thoughts on Music Education at Temple: Darrel Walters, professor
Darrel Walters teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and is a major advisor for students in the masters and doctoral programs in music education research. He has been major advisor for more than 50 theses and dissertations and served on committees for many others. Dr. Walters has earned a BA and an MA in music education from the University of Michigan School of Music and a Ph.D. in Supervision and Administration from the University of Michigan School of Education. Dr. Walters taught and supervised public school instrumental music in Michigan for sixteen years prior to joining the Temple University faculty in 1986. While at Temple, he has become particularly interested in improving the writing of graduate students. He collected writing samples, categorized student writing problems, and in 1999 published a textbook titled The Readable Thesis: A Guide to Clear and Effective Writing. At the request of the Graduate Curriculum and Policy Committee of the Boyer College of Music, he created the graduate-level course Academic Writing Skills in 1999. He has taught that course every year since. The writing course has led to his developing materials that elevate all students’ writing to a higher level, whether English is their first or second language.
A growing interest in writing improvement has led to Dr. Walters offering writing seminars, and to his writing a new book for wider use, titled Write Well Now: Six Keys to Greater Clarity. The new book, nearing completion, will be available for release in 2008. Darrel Walters has also written a great amount of fiction, including short stories, poems for adults, and poems and stories for children. He looks forward to a wide variety of writing projects after completion of Write Well Now, including a textbook for the assessment of music learning, a collection of children’s poetry, and a book designed to help young readers understand the sonnets of Shakespeare. Darrel Walters grew up as a Methodist, now attends an Episcopal church, and reads poetry to elderly persons at an adult day care center. He aspires to think clearly, write fruitfully, and do some good well into his 90s. He lives in Ambler, PA with his wife, Carol, a health care administrator, and has three grown daughters and one grandson. Dr. Walters' Thoughts on Music Education at Temple:"The music education program at Temple has been well-respected over a long period of time, and for good reason. I recall one music supervisor having concluded that he may as well limit interviews for music education positions to Temple graduates, because those he hires from Temple always seem to be the stars. The program was well thought out and established for its quality and comprehensiveness long ago by outstanding faculty, many of whom have since retired. As the torch is passed, the culture of quality and commitment continues. A great strength of the program is the interaction of undergraduate students with experienced teachers enrolled in the masters and Ph.D. programs."
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