GAMA Meeting 2013First Quarter Member Report

Agenda

• Opening Remarks

• Education Initiatives

• Media Initiatives

• Programs & Partnerships

• Closing Remarks

Education Initiative

• Teaching Guitar Workshopso 20% Increase in Attendanceo NAMM Granto Gear Report

Education Initiative

• National Association of School Musico NASM, founded in 1924, is an organization of schools, conservatories,

colleges and universities with approximately 644 accredited institutional members. It establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials.

• GAMA's Goalo Document, publish, and maintain a directory of NASM member

institutions where guitar students can earn a bachelor’s degree in music education and learn to teach both studio and classroom guitar.

Education Initiative

• National String Project Consortiumo NSPC is a coalition of 40 college- and university-based String

Projects. NSPC works to increase both the number of qualified string teachers and the number of children playing stringed instruments. Its unique approach to teacher training has earned national recognition.

• GAMA's Goalo Work with NSPC member colleges to add a guitar pedagogy

component to their existing programs which currently focus only on bowed strings. We have the support of NSPC’s Executive Director, Dr. Eugene Dowdy of the University of Texas, San Antonio, who directs the only String Project that already includes guitar in its program.

Education Initiative

• American String Teachers Associationo The national association of teachers of violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar,

and harp, with more than 10,000 members in all 50 states.o In 2011, ASTA formed its ad hoc Classroom Guitar Task Force to

explore ways the organization could better serve its guitar-teacher members. In 2012, the Task Force was upgraded to a permanent standing Committee of ASTA, led by long-time TGW clinician Glen McCarthy.

• GAMA's Goalo Work with ASTA’s leadership and Classroom Guitar Committee to

expand the presence of guitar throughout ASTA’s programs, especially its annual membership conference.

Media Initiatives

• Celebrity Posters• Music Inc. Article• www.GuitarEduNet.org• TGW Facebook

• Guitars in the Classroom• AARP• Make Music NY• NAMM

Programs & Partnerships

Closing Remarks

• Questions & Answers