Jared Rawlings

School of Music

Amount Awarded: $4,443.00

Awarded for 2017-18

Title: Beyond Aggression and Intimidation: Addressing Bullying in the Music Classroom

Bullying behavior is a public health problem that occurs at relatively high frequencies among adolescents with significant short-term and long-term consequences. Despite the wealth of knowledge available about bullying behaviors, little information is known about how music teacher educators address this concern within coursework. Thus, the purpose of this project is to host bullying prevention scholar, Dorothy Espelage for a two-day residency addressing how anti-bullying programming may be incorporated within coursework.

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Project Description

Espelage arrived to our campus on Monday, September 18th 2017. We had a brief dinner in the evening and I took her to the Utah Chamber Artists music concert at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. On the first day of the residency (September 19, 2017), Espelage delivered two workshops. The first was a 105-minute bullying prevention workshop targeting undergraduate education majors and took place in Dumke Recital hall (David Gardner Hall). Approximately 60 people were in attendance (undergraduate teacher candidates, faculty, and staff) at this event. The second 150-minute workshop targeted in-service teachers and was help in the Eccles Auditorium (Tanner Humanities Building). Approximately 80 teachers and graduate students were in attendance and we coordinated with a class from the College of Education to attend the workshop as well.

On the second day (September 20, 2017) of the residency, Espelage provided a 3-hour consulting session with music education faculty to integrate bullying prevention programming within coursework. This consultation was necessary to design curricular integration for sustained impact on the department as we currently do not have a classroom management course. Espelage discussed details of functional behavioral assessment and strategies for social-emotional learning. During the evening, she delivered a keynote address about what research tells us about bullying and its prevention in schools. This 150-minute keynote was held in the BTS auditorium within the College of Education and 20 faculty attended. Following this final responsibility, I coordinated a small group of education faculty and we had dinner with Espelage. Espelage traveled back to Gainesville, Florida on September 21, 2017.

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