Integrating Core Competencies in Professional Music Training Curriculum — The Tainan University of Technology Experience

Abstract

Music curriculum integration in professional music training involves the exploration of how educators can integrate individual competency items developed by Teachout's (1997) three categories of skills/knowledge components, namely, teaching, personal, and musical skills and behaviors, into the music education curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to use Denis’s (2017) skills/knowledge competency of university coursework as the enquiry lens. The focus is skills/knowledge competency with the three subsections for personal, teaching, and musical skills and behaviorsthat need to be shaped in different ways to successfully convey music content to students. Insights into the results of the necessary skills/knowledge components are gained through using the example of the Music Department at the Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan. The findings demonstrate that music curriculum integration with a competency-based approach to practice helps with successfully implementing classroom management strategies.