Maine Motif Issue 1, Vol. II (Fall, 2017) | Page 28

Tips for the Successful
Inclusion of Students in the
General Music Classroom
By Dr. Erin Zaffini, Keene State College
Over the past five years as a lecturer in music education at Keene State College in New
Hampshire, I have experienced incredibly fulfilling opportunities by developing various
courses for our undergraduate music education majors. Ranking high within these
experiences was the opportunity I was afforded to develop and teach “Adaptive Music,”
a new course at Keene State College within our music education program. While doing