JENNIFER GREENE
Jennifer Reynolds Greene has been an instrumental music educator, specializing in bands, for more than twenty-five years. Currently she holds a position at Fayetteville-Manlius High School, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, where she teaches Concert Band, Music Theory 1 & 2, brass and percussion lessons, and chamber ensembles. Dr. Greene is an active member of the New York State School Music Association for which she is a certified adjudicator for majors and All-State brass, has served as a member of the All-State Selection Committee, and is currently the Horn Chair for the Manual Selection Committee. On the local level she has served as President of the Onondaga County Music Educators’ Association and has hosted several All-County and regional events, both large ensemble and solo festivals. As a hornist, Dr. Greene remains active as a performer throughout the Central New York area, particularly with the Central Winds: A Music Educators Wind Ensemble. Dr. Greene has presented at the Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium in 2013 and 2015, the NAfME Research Conference in 2014 and 2016, and the ISME Conference in 2016. She hopes to continue to pursue her research interests in music teacher education, professional development for public school educators, and mentoring.
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Boundaries as Distancing:
Examining the Role of the Cooperating Teacher
Examining the Role of the Cooperating Teacher
The institution of student teaching, as socially constructed, consists of roles that are boundaried through cultural convention. Boundaries are distancing and discomforting, but it has been said that in recognizing their narrative knowledge, a teacher must move beyond traditional boundaries to a new sense of agency. Utilizing a narrative approach, the purpose will be to examine existing stories that may reveal the ways in which cooperating teachers, as boundary crossers, come to see themselves as situated knowers as well as how they express discomfort as they experience distance. Finally, the potential for re-making roles by reducing distance will be explored.