School of Music
P.O. Box 26170
UNC Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
(336) 334-5789 OFFICE
(336) 334-5497 FAX

e-mail: music@uncg.edu

MUSIC EDUCATION FACULTY

Donald A. Hodges is Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute. His degrees are from the University of Kansas (BME) and the University of Texas (MM and PhD). Previous appointments include the Philadelphia public schools, the University of South Carolina, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Hodges is contributing editor of the Handbook of Music Psychology and the accompanying Multimedia Companion and has published numerous book chapters, articles, and research papers in music education and music psychology. He has made presentations to state, national, and international conferences and has served on the editorial boards of Music Educators Journal and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. He is past president of the Texas Music Educators Conference and Texas Coalition for Music Education, has served on scientific organizing and review committees for the International Society for Music Medicine and the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, and is Chair of the Music Perception and Cognition Special Research Interest Group (Music Educators National Conference) and Research Chair for NCMEA. Recent research has focused on a series of brain imaging studies of musicians (funded by several large grants), on Williams Syndrome musicians, and on tonality judgments of popular music among pre-teens. 336-334-5176 or email: dahodges@uncg.edu

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Constance McKoy holds a BM in Music Education from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and both an MM and PhD from UNCG. She has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi and, for nineteen years, served the North Carolina public schools as a lead teacher, general music teacher, choral director, and band assistant. McKoy has published research in The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, and the Southern Music Education Journal, and serves on the advisory committee for the MENC publication Teaching Music. She has presented at research sessions of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, The American Orff Schulwerk Association, and the College Music Society. She is an active clinician for state, regional, and national music education organizations, is Orff-certified, and has served on the Educational Advisory Board for Kindermusik International. Her responsibilities in the School of Music include coordinating student teaching, and teaching courses in elementary general music methods, pre-school music methods, and multicultural music education. 336-334-5478 or email: clmckoy@uncg.edu

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Brett Nolker is an assistant professor of Music Education, specializing in choral and secondary-level general music education. Prior to joining the faculty at UNCG, Dr. Nolker served as the Director of Music Education and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale and Jenny Lind Women’s Ensemble at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Dr. Nolker has also held the position of Director of Music at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he was music director for the Festival Choir of the Winston Churchill Memorial and St. Mary Aldermansbury Chapel. He is active in music education research, with areas of interest including music teacher development, and promoting music reading skills for the choral ensemble. Active in Professional organizations such as the American Choral Directors Association and MENC: the National Association for Music Education, he is presently serving as Teacher Education Chair for the North Carolina Music Educators Association. His frequent workshops and teacher development presentations include serving on faculty for the Music Education Centers of America at VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Nolker has taught instrumental and vocal music in the public schools of Colorado and Missouri and appears frequently as a guest conductor, clinician, and festival adjudicator. He holds degrees from Central Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri, The Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas and the PhD in Music Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. 336-334-3642 email: dbnolker@uncg.edu

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Patricia Sink, earned BM and MM degrees in Music Education from UNCG and the PhD degree from the University of Kansas. She also is a Registered Music Therapist. She taught choral and general music in North Carolina and Iowa Public Schools and served as a Music Therapist in the Menninger Foundation Children's Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. While in Iowa, she was the Chair of the Music Education Division at Drake University. She is active in the MENC: National Association for Music Education and the North Carolina Music Educators Association, having held offices in both organizations. She has published research in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, and the Southeastern Journal of Music Education. She also published a chapter in the Handbook of Research in Music Education pertaining to middle school general music teaching and learning. Currently she is serving on the editorial board of the MENC affiliated journal UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education. Sink's teaching responsibilities in the School of Music primarily involve teaching graduate music education courses, advising dissertation research, and teaching an upper level undergraduate course focused on special music education. 336-334-5469 or email: psink@triad.rr.com

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Dr. Jennifer Stewart Walter is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing in instrumental music education. She holds a B.M. in music education from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH, an M. M. in Music Education from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Walter taught elementary, middle, and high school band in North Carolina and Tennessee and she is an experienced clinician. She is also active in the field of music education research and has presented her research at state, regional, national and international conferences. Dr. Walter's current research involves the level of noise exposure experienced by music teachers and students, student retention in school music programs, and the successful inclusion of students with disabilities in music classrooms. Dr. Walter lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with husband Donny and son Andrew. 336-334-5969 or email: jlstewa7@uncg.edu

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David Teachout is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Education Division. His degrees are from West Virginia University (BME), the University of Oklahoma (MME), and Kent State University (Ph D). Prior to joining the faculty at UNCG, he taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Minnesota and at Pennsylvania State University; he also enjoyed ten years of successful public school instrumental music teaching experience in Moore, Oklahoma. Dr. Teachout's research interest is in pre-service music teacher development. His work has been presented at state, regional, national, and international conferences and published in Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Journal of Band Research, Contributions in Music Education, Southeastern Journal of Music Education, Curriculum Innovation in Music, and On the Sociology of Music Education. Dr. Teachout serves on the editorial review board for Research Issues in Music Education and on the national advisory board for Desert Skies Symposium on Research in Music Education. He is a past National Chair of the Collegiate Division of Music Educators National Conference and is currently the National Chair of the Society for Music Teacher Education. 336-334-4759 or email djteacho@uncg.edu

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Rebecca MacLeod is assistant professor of music education, specializing in string education. She earned her degrees from Duquesne University (BSME) and Florida State University (MME and PhD). Prior to her position at UNCG, she taught elementary, middle school, and high school orchestra in the public schools of Pennsylvania . She has published in the Journal of Research in Music Education and the Florida Music Educator's Journal and her research on at-risk string programs, vibrato technique, instrument preference, and music perception has been presented at the Music Educator's National Conference, American String Teacher's National Conference and the Florida Music Educator's State Conference, respectively. She is a frequent guest conductor and clinician in various high schools and colleges in Pennsylvania , West Virginia , Florida , Georgia , and Illinois . 336-256-0167 or email rbmacleo@uncg.edu