@article{8d9363da782b432d8ab74d76953ff5bb,
title = "Factors Influencing Secondary String Students{\textquoteright} String Teaching Career Choices",
abstract = "The purpose of this research was to investigate factors influencing the decisions of high school string students planning to major in music teaching in college. High school string students (N = 246) from 14 schools in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho indicated their interest in pursuing a music teaching major and rated 15 factors believed to contribute to teaching interest. Data were evaluated using a multiple regression analysis. The dependent variable was Teaching Interest. The independent variables were the 15 interest factors. Three variables (conducting, teachers{\textquoteright} contracts of 9-10 months without summer teaching, and teachers{\textquoteright} pay) accounted for approximately 23 percent of the variance contributing to students{\textquoteright} interest in a teaching major. The process of conducting, a teacher's contract, and surprisingly teacher pay contribute positively to students{\textquoteright} decisions to major in string teaching. Perhaps more emphasis should be placed on these 3 variables when recruiting students to the field of string teaching.",
keywords = "career choice, music career, music teacher, string music education, string teacher, string teaching career",
author = "Hamann, {Donald L.} and Robert Frost and Tami Draves",
note = "Funding Information: having garnered attention at the Tanglewood String Symposia of 1963 and 1964 and resulting in several American String Teachers Association (ASTA) initiatives (Gillespie, 1997). During a strategic retreat in 1998, the National Executive Board of ASTA identified six items as priorities for the growth of strings in America. The first priority was to increase the number of string teachers in the United States. To this end, the National String Project Consortium was created to help fund String Projects whose mission was to create an environment that fostered and strengthened interest in string teaching (ASTA, n.d.). A grant from the US Department of Education (FIPSE) in July, 2000, funded the first group of 10 String Projects in this consortium. Since its inception, the National String Project Consortium has helped develop over 32 string teacher training programs or String Projects across the United States (National String Project Consortium, 2008). Participants at the 2004 National Summit, Advancing Strings in America: A Blueprint for ASTA, identified a “shortage of school string teachers” as a key problem facing string teaching. One project that developed from this summit was Careers in String Teaching. Sponsored by ASTA and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Careers in String Teaching addressed the anticipated string teacher shortage using brochures, a DVD that advocated for string programs, and a White Paper (Jesselson, n.d.; Hamann, n.d.). An additional publication, Imagine a Career with Strings Attached, was designed to generate interest among string students to pursue a career in string teaching (Gillespie, n.d.). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2011 American String Teachers Association.",
year = "2011",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/194849921100200002",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2",
pages = "17--24",
journal = "String Research Journal",
issn = "1948-4992",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "1",
}