Judy Bond
Professor & Coordinator of Music Education
Education:
- B.A. Grinnell College
- M.A. University of Minnesota
- PhD University of Minnesota
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Music Education
- Music for Elementary Classroom Teachers
- Elementary Methods: General Music
- Secondary Methods: General Music
- Student Teaching Supervision
- Seminar On Teaching
- Graduate Courses:
- Music Education: Contemporary Approaches
- Graduate Music Education Seminar
Biography:
Judy Bond, Coordinator of Music Education, teaches undergraduate music education courses and is responsible for the supervision of the student teaching program for choral and general music education majors. She also directs a UWSP graduate program for general music teachers, including summer courses leading to Orff Levels Certification and a Saturday workshop series with emphasis on contemporary active music making approaches to teaching general music.
Judy earned a Ph D from the University of Minnesota, where she taught undergraduate music education courses and conducted research in the area of multi-cultural music as it relates to general music education. Her public school experience includes both elementary and secondary levels in choral and general music. Judy has presented workshops and taught courses for teachers across the United States and in Canada, Germany, Austria, and China. In 1990 she was Co-Director of the International summer Course at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.
Her most recent international teaching was in China, where she taught a course for Chinese music teachers at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Judy served on the Board of Directors of the American Orff Schulwerk Association for ten years, during which she served as National Conference Chair and President. She is an honorary member of the organization. Judy is an author of SHARE THE MUSIC and SPOTLIGHT ON MUSIC, two widely used music textbook series for K-8 published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.