Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.
Music technology and production classes are, thankfully, becoming more prevalent within secondary schools. However, with a more general student population comes a greater need to diversify instruction and curriculum support for students with disabilities and various levels of English language proficiency. Without such supports, the classes that are meant to give students voice, choice, and meaningful musical engagement in their school day will fall short and potentially drive them away from making music in the future. Teachers can include everyone in the learning and making process with a variety of methods including visuals, translated handouts, color-coding, sheltered English immersion, partner work, peer mentoring, community-building, adaptive instruments, creative vocalizing, symbolic notation, fun use of audio effects, individualized projects, choice boards, and more! In this session, educators will be introduced to a wide variety of accessible teaching methods and materials for music technology and production, then collaboratively create materials to suit their specific needs. Educators will also learn how to effectively manage their preparation and in-class time with students to create and use adaptive and accessible materials. As a result of educators developing these skills and resources, their students will be more engaged, learning environments will be more productive and fun, and more students will make music that is meaningful to them.
