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Title
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Dr. Janet Montgomery
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Birth Date
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December 31, 1951 ~ Junction City, Kansas
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Death Date
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March 19, 2016 ~ Greenbelt, Maryland
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Education
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Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, 1983
MA - Wichita State, 1975
BA - Wichita State, 1972
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Teaching History
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2007-2016: University of Maryland
2004-2007: Denver Public Schools, Administration
1990-2004: University of Colorado, Boulder
1981-1990: Ithaca College
1980-1981: Wright State University
1972-1977: Wichita, Kansas schools
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Area/s of Research
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Elementary General Music Education, Special Education
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Major Publications
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"Musical Growth in the Elementary School" with Bergethon and Boardman (1996); "Challenges to Music Education: Curriculum Reconceptualized" in MEJ with Hanley (2005); "Contempory Curriculum Practices" in "Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, Vol. II," (2002); "Partnering with Music Therapists: A Model for Addressing Students' Musical and Extramusical Goals" in MEJ with Martinson (2006)
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Awards & Accomplishments
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Colorado Music Educators Association's Hall of Fame (2007)
Special Learner Chair for Executive Board, Marlyand Music Educators Associaton
President, Colorado Music Educators Associations (2002-2004)
Editorial Board, Council for Research in Music Education (2003)
Board Member, Colorado Alliance for Arts Education (2000-2002)
Chair of Society for General Music, MENC (1996-1998)
Chair of ISME Commission of Music in Special Education, Music Therapy, and Music Medicine (1994-1998, 2000-2002)
Member of ISME Advisory Panel of World Musics (1991-1996)
Dana Teaching Award, Ithaca College (1988-1989)
Outstanding Young Woman of America (1981, 1984)
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Dissertation
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"Development of Testing Procedures for Assessing the Ability of Preschoolers to Discriminate Melodic Direction: Three Types of Test Instruction and Three Types of Response" (1983)
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Biographical Text
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From archived material at the University of Maryland:
Janet Montgomery joined the University of Maryland music education faculty as the general music specialist in 2007 and served as Chair of the music education area. Prior to her work as Arts Coordinator for the Denver Public Schools, she served as an Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught at Ithaca College (NY) and Wright State University (OH), and in the Wichita (KS) Public Schools. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BME and MME degrees from Wichita State University.
Her publication record includes co-author of "Musical Growth in the Elementary School" (Harcourt and Brace, 1996), a program author of "The Music Connection, Grades K-8" (Silver Burdett, Ginn, and Foreseman, 2000), author of various articles on special learners and comprehensive musicianship, and co-author of a chapter on contemporary curriculum in "The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning" (Oxford, 2003). Her latest publications appeared in "Music Educator Journal" (January 2005 and March 2006). She is a past Chair of Society for General Music in the Music Educators National Conference, past Chair for the ISME Commission of Music in Special Education, Music Therapy, and Music Medicine, and Past President of the Colorado Music Educators Association. She was a Special Learners Chair for Maryland Music Educators Association. Her research interests include history of music education, psychology of music learning, special needs students, and teacher education.
