Pearsall CV 2018
Pearsall CV 2018
Pearsall CV 2018
CURRICULUM VITAE
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POSITIONS HELD
Curriculum Development
• Selected for Wallingford Swarthmore School District’s music department vertical team
• Developed the 6th grade general music curriculum: grounded in informal learning. Unit-
based with a focus on musical creativity & independence
Curriculum Development
• Created and implemented a diverse music curriculum that included a focus on musical
independence and incorporated the following: singing of diverse repertoire, songwriting,
sight singing, and the learning of ukulele, guitar, and piano
Grants/Funding
• H.B. Parent Teachers Association Grant for ukuleles: $500.00
• Donorschoose Funding for guitars & ukuleles: $416.00
EDUCATION
2016 Master of Music, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Major: Music Education
Major: Choral Conducting
Thesis: Informal Learning in the Choral Classroom
• Teaching assistant to Suzanne Burton, Director of Music Education & Music Graduate
Studies & Alden Snell, Music Education Professor
• Conducting study with Paul Head & Duane Cottrell
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Burton, S. & Pearsall, A. (2016). Music-based iPad app preferences of young children.
Research Studies in Music Education, 38(1), 75-91. doi: 10.1177/1321103X16642630.
2016 Pearsall, A. (2016). Informal learning in the choral classroom. Retrieved from ProQuest Digital
Dissertations. (AAT 10157415).
2014 International Society for Music Education, Early Childhood Music Education Commission,
Brasilia, Brazil: Four-year Old Children’s Musical iPad Preferences. (Summer, 2014 with
Suzanne Burton).
2014 College Music Symposium, St. Louis, MO: Children’s preferences and responses to musical
iPad apps: Where America’s technological culture meets music education.
2014 Pearsall, A. (2014). Young children’s preferences for musical iPad apps. Retrieved from
http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13206
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
International
2014 International Society for Music Education, 2014 Early Childhood Music Education
Commission, Brasilia, Brazil: Four-year old children’s musical iPad preferences. Presented
with Suzanne Burton.
2014 Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium at the University of South Florida: Young
children’s preferences for music iPad apps. Presented with Suzanne Burton.
National
2016 National Association for Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference,
Creativity Special Research Interest Group, Atlanta, GA. Informal learning in the choral
classroom.
2014 National Association for Music Education, Research and Teacher Education Conference, Early
Childhood Music Special Research Interest Group, St. Louis, MO. Young children’s
preferences for musical iPad apps. Presented with Suzanne Burton.
State
2016 Pennsylvania Music Education Association Conference, Hershey, PA. Informal Learning in the
Choral Classroom.
2014 University of Delaware Day at the Delaware State Legislature, Dover, DE. Young children’s
preferences for musical iPad Apps.
2015 Selected as a conducting scholar for the Delaware Choral Academy Summer Conducting
Symposium. Studied with Dr. Paul Head, Dr. Wayne Abercrombie, & Dr. Andrew Kreckmann
2014 Selected as a conducting scholar for the Delaware Choral Academy Summer Conducting
Symposium. Studied with Dr. Paul Head
2012 Gordon Institute for Music Learning Early Childhood Music Certification Course, University of
South Carolina
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
• Musical creativity in the choral classroom
• Adolescent songwriting
• Democracy in the choral and general music classroom
• Informal learning in middle school music ensembles and general music classes
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