Dr. Matthew Borek joins the School of Music tomorrow as the new, full-time Clinical Experiences and Music Education Program Coordinator. His office will provide one-stop service for academic advising, field experience documentation, student teaching coordination, certification process, and assisting faculty with our students career development and job placement. The School is grateful for Dr. Harwoods on-going service as the Music Education advisor and for David Allens oversight of clinical experiences and placement of student teachers. Please join us all in thanking both Dr. Harwood and David Allen for their dedication to our music education program. We owe them a debt of gratitude. Dr. Borek received his B.M., magna cum laude, from Ithaca College; his M.Ed., Education Research, Measurement and Evaluation, at Boston College; and his Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, from Boston College. He was a secondary music teacher in Massachusetts before teaching music overseas at an American-curriculum school in Morocco. There, he was selected to serve on an international committee devoted to establishing standards and benchmarks for all American schools around the world. Upon returning to the United States, Dr. Borek supervised student teachers and then worked for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, first in the Office of Educator Licensure and then as a policy analyst in the Office of Educator Effectiveness. He helped develop the State’s successful responses to the Race to the Top and Teacher Incentive Fund grant programs before moving to California, where Dr. Borek worked for a small research company and as a contractor, focusing mostly on projects related to educator evaluation and certification. Dr. Borek’s dissertation research addressed the processes music teacher preparation programs underwent as they selected their curricula, with a focus on the boundaries between, and politics of, school subjects. He reports that he is very eager to join the School of Music community, to contribute to the scholarly traditions of the University, and to experience a “polar vortex” first-hand (although his wife is less eager about that last one).
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:47:55 +0000
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