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MTNA/TMTA Local Association Mission Statement To encourage affiliation of music teacher organizations; to foster a strong relationship between the local association and the state and national organizations; to provide opportunities for communication and collaboration on local association organizational issues; and to recommend major program initiatives, projects and services to the MTNA Board of Directors. TMTA members are part of a powerful network of teaching professionals through their involvement in local association activities. Local Associations provide special educational programming, festivals, and opportunities to meet new friends with common interests. For more information about TMTA Local Associations or TMTA membership, contact the TMTA office or the TMTA Immediate Past President For more information on establishing an MTNA local association, MTNA membership or to contact the MTNA national local associations chair, call or write:
MUSIC TEACHERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
In the military, R & R stands for Rest and Relaxation. I hope each of you made time for some R & R this past summer. Now, I would like each of you to make time for a different type of R & R—MTNA RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION! This is a great time of year to contact new teachers in your community or teachers who have not joined MTNA in previous years and invite them to your local meetings. Let them come and see what your association is doing, experience the camaraderie, hear the “shop-talk” about students, what music to buy, new computer software, angst over students’ involvement in sports and so forth. Let prospective members attend your association meetings for several months before requesting that they join. Hopefully, they will see how indispensable the local association is, how important the state association is and how everything ties to our national association—help them become aware that they are part nearly 24,000 members. We need to think locally, but also be a part of the global community. Does your local association advertise its meeting regularly in the local newspaper? Do you advertise in local school program booklets? Do you have a website for your local association? Do you have a recruiting packet with information about the programs your association has to offer that could be sent to local teachers, along with membership application forms or websites for further information? Remember MTNA is THE association for ALL independent music teachers and applied music college/university faculty. In addition to the local association student activities, states offer a variety of competitive and non-competitive student events; the national association offers the MTNA Competitions for the exceptionally talented students and the MTNA Study Awards, Achievement Awards and the Studio Festival Program for the “everyday” students. MTNA teachers have access to legal services, insurance programs, teacher certification and state and national conferences, plus special programs on recreational music making, group piano teaching and much, much more. Speak out for MTNA. Phyllis Pieffer , NCTM MTNA Local Association Handbook Click here for a flow chart of TMTA leadership. Click here for TMTA Past President Sherry Frush's letter to local association presidents (2006). Local President's Responsibilities Local Association Report and Best of State forms Foundation Donation Form for Associations Click here for any other TMTA forms. |
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