Certification
The MTNA
Professional Certification Program exists to improve the level of
professionalism within the field of music teaching. It benefits the members of
the profession itself, as well as the public who interacts with the
professional. For the music teaching professional, certification provides
prestige, recognition and the potential for student recruitment and increased
earning power. For the public, certification helps readily identify competent
music teachers in their communities.
The program is based upon a set of five standards defining
what a competent music teacher should know and be able to do. Upon fulfillment
of these standards, applicants are granted the MTNA Professional Certification
credential with the designation, Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM).
All music teachers actively engaged in the profession are eligible for MTNA
Professional Certification.
To learn more about the two-step process to becoming
certified and to download a certification packet, click here.
For more
information contact Nancy Plourde, NCTM, Texas Certification Chair at certification_PLEASEvREMOVE_ Ατ _THISvSPAM-FIGHTING_tmta_TEXTvPLEASE_.org
CERTIFICATION
TESTING
Candidates are encouraged to schedule exams on official test dates. Additional dates/times may be scheduled by appointment pending the availability of an exam administrator. For more information, please contact Nancy Plourde, Certification Chair, at the email address listed above.
Congratulations to our newest certified teachers:
| Pablo Aguilar |
| Mario P. Ajero |
| Sharon Herning |
Shannon Hesse |
| Jessica Koebbe |
| Justin Reich |
| Deborah Rhine |
| Natalia Skovorodina |
| Donna Vinarskai |
| Judy K. Wilkins |
CASE H
ISTORIES
When our local San Antonio Music Teachers’ Association offered a meeting one fall to help teachers interested in certification, I knew I wanted to attend. Nancy Plourde and Elizabeth Gutierrez did a wonderful job of presenting a well-organized, step-wise plan for each of us to follow towards certification. They were always available to answer questions. Their encouragement and mentorship as well as the encouragement and mentorship of other teachers in SAMTA were critical to my pursuing certification. My goal in working towards certification was to use the process as a motivation to learn more about teaching and to become a better teacher. By sharing with my students what I was learning throughout the journey, they were able to celebrate with me when I received news of my certification. I also wanted them to understand that we should never stop learning. Learning is a life-long process.
Donna Vinarskai, NCTM
Being a Certified Teacher of Music means a lot to me because throughout my college and master's career at TCU, my pedagogy professor Dr. Ann Gipson had
always stressed
the importance of being a Certified Teacher of Music.
She and I share a vision that one day, all teachers of music will need to have some sort of qualification such as NCTM in order to help raise the quality of the standard of education of music to all children. She helped me get all of my materials together over the course of the last couple years including a teaching DVD which shows my best work. It has been a long road in getting my certification portfolio materials together.
I believe that being an NCTM will help me stand out among teachers who have not received any sort of qualification or music degrees but yet are teaching in our music profession.
Having this title shows all my students and parents that I know what I am doing and am qualified to do it according to a leading association of music education.
Doris Gameiro, NCTM
PERMANENTLY CERTIFIED TEACHERS IN TEXAS
Elisa Adams
Melody Allen
Shirley Anderson
Amy Andrus
Linda Anthony
Patricia C Anthony
Jessie E Ash
Carolyn Bain
Melanie Bankston
Henrietta E Bassett
Donna G Batey
Ethelyn K Beck
Reva Jean Beck
Ronald Bennett
Lynn Reedy Bethel-Baldwin
Shirley Boening
Christine Rode Borchardt
Mary Pinkney Bradford
April A Brahinsky
Lydia McCall Bratcher
Marilyn Brewer
Roselle Butler
Ann Carabin
Ann-Ping Chee
Lora Lynn Christensen
Katherine Collins
Susan Conner
Nancy Copeland
Rebecca Hardy Corley
Teresa L Crawford
Carol Crisp
Madelon Byrd Croskell
Susan Cusenbary
Diane N Daves
Sandra Fulmer Davidson
Diane Dawson Delk
Cari Meador Dillon
Carol Domasco
Nancy Driver
Christine Duncan
Diana Dyer
Natalie Eustace
Joy S. Finley
Sherry P Frush
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Jan Gauger
Susan R Geffen
Mary Jean Gentry
Vicki Gray
Marsha Kay Green
Jeannine Greene
Ruth Ann Griffin
Carolyn Gurley
Elizabeth C Gutierrez
Mildred T Halbert
Celinda Hallbauer
Donna Olene Ham
Cheryl Nugent Harris
Tena Wahrmund Hehn
Shyrle A Hill
Martha Hilley
Dorothy M Holmes
Ruth Jane Holmes
Betty A Hood
Madge Hunt
Gelene Johnson
Dianne L Kaldor
Sarah Kerr
Patricia Kolaski
Paul Krystofiak
Joan L Kuhne
Mary Ann W. LaCour
June Leondar
Laurie Lindemulder
Ann Lindsey
Mary Loving
Martha Frances MacDonald
Betty C Marcell
Linda Marse
Thomas Masinter
Carol F Masson
Jacqueline Maxcey
Rebecca Shrum May
Sandy McClenahan
Judith Mellenbruch
Mae Merritt
Juliana H Michie
Margaret Miller
Carolyn Monaghan
Diane Morrow
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Harriet A Motter
Joy Moutos
Beverly M Naismith
Mary Nunn
Glenna O'Dell
Rebecca Oekerman
Judy Owens
Beverly J Panasik
Linda L Parr
Ruth Pitts
Cherry Harvey Potts
Eilene Power
Lauren Puckett
Marjorie Rasche
Karen Kay Neff Reed
Marolyn J Rippe
Martha Blair Roberts
Kyla K Rosenberger
Charlotte Safi
Shari Eve Santorelli
Laura Seale
Joan Serfass
Be-Fong Shih-Foreman
Manuela B Shull
Dorothy Menke Smith
Athalie A Southard
Peggy R Swaizey
Lisa Taylor
Sylvia Taylor
Catherine Tetreault
Lisa Cheryl Thomas
Mei Na Tserng
Polly Tyrer-Ferraro
Janice L VanDerbur
Pattilyn Joy Walker
Irene H Waters
Alice Welch
Margaret Wells
R Glen Wester
Colby Whitaker
Jessye Streeter Whitis
Sally Drefke Wilson
Theresa H Wilson
Etta Jean Wright
Florence Young
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TEXAS CERTIFIED TEACHERS
Peggy Abraham
Elisa Adams
Pablo Aguilar
Mario P. Ajero
Melody Allen
Brian Allison
Shirley Anderson
Amy Andrus
Linda Anthony
Patricia Anthony
Jessie Ash
Kara Bailey
Carolyn Bain
Melanie Bankston
Laura Barnett
Mary Bartels
Donna Batey
Laura Bearden
Ethelyn Beck
Reva Beck
Ronald Bennett
Mildred Bennight
Lynn Bethel-Baldwin
Shirley Boening
Christine Borchardt
Janice Bowen
Mary Bradford
April Brahinsky
Lydia Bratcher
Lillian Brothers
Ella Burba
Roselle Butler
Andrea Cannon
Theresa Carrell
Nancy Cecil
L Charles
Ann-Ping Chee
Lora Christensen
Vanessa Clark
Katherine Collins
A J Collins-Thompson
Susan Conner
Nancy Copeland
Rebecca Corley
Dorothy Cox
Beverly Cranshaw
Courtney Crappell
Teresa Crawford
Carol Crisp
Madelon Croskell
Susan Cusenbary
Diane Daves
Sandra Davidson
Mary Davis
Shelly Davis
Diane Delk
Cari Dillon
C Ditzler
Carol Domasco
Oscar Dressler
Nancy Driver
Christine Duncan
Diana Dyer
Eleanor Elkins
Natalie Eustace
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Joy Finley
Mary Fisbeck
Ileaine Fisher
Martha Fox
Scott Frock
Sherry Frush
Doris Gameiro
Jan Gauger
Susan Geffen
Mary Jean Gentry
Eileen George
Amanda Gilmore
Ann Gipson
Wilford Glenn
Omar Granados De La Pena
Vicki Gray
Marsha Green
Jeannine Greene
Ruth Griffin
Olga Guinee
Carolyn Gurley
Elizabeth Gutierrez
Debra Hadfield
Mildred Halbert
Nancy Hall
Sandy Hall
Celinda Hallbauer
Donna Ham
Lauren Harder
Larry Harms
Veronika Harms
Cheryl Harris
Tena Hehn
Mihee Kim Heil
John Hendrickson
Sharon Herning
Shannon Hesse
Shyrle Hill
Martha Hilley
Betsy Hines
Jo Ann Hoffman
Samuel Holland
Ruth Holmes
Susan Hong
Betty Hood
Shearon Horton
Julia Hsiao
Holly Hughes
Madge Hunt
Laurel Ince
Luanne Johns
Cynthia Johnson
Gelene Johnson
Dianne Kaldor
Kasandra Keeling
Cheryl Kendrick
Robert Kern
Edwin Key
Frances Key
Marie King
Nancy Kingsanders
Lucille Kinkler
Leanne Kirkham
Dorothy Kirkpatrick
Matthew Kline
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Jessica Koebbe
Patricia Kolaski
Mary Ann LaCour
Rebecca Landreth
Glenda Lanier
Amy Lee
June Leondar
Laurie Lindemulder
Ann Lindsey
Mary Loving
Mary Loving
Kay Lowry
Doris Lum
Martha MacDonald
Albert Malacara
Betty Mallard
Betty Marcell
Olga Marek
Linda Marse
Cheryl Marshall
Nicole Martens
Thomas Masinter
Rosemary Massingale
Carol Masson
Jacqueline Maxcey
Rebecca May
Karen McBee
Philelle McBrayer
Philelle McBrayer
Sandy McClenahan
Laura McDonald
Pat McDonald
Judith Mellenbruch
Mae Merritt
Juliana Michie
Margaret Miller
Sara Miller
Wanda Miller
Carolyn Monaghan
Diane Morrow
Ruth Morrow
Harriet Motter
Joy Moutos
Charlotte Mueller
Jean Muelschen
Karen Munson
Beverly Naismith
Joan Nassiri
N Nelson
Jennifer Novak
Mary Nunn
Glenna O'Dell
Julia O'Dell
Judy Owens
Beverly Panasik
Linda Parr
Robbie Payne
Jane Perkyns
Ruth Pitts
Nancy Plourde
Cherry Potts
Eilene Power
Lauren Puckett
Marjorie Rasche
Heather Rathnau
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Karen Reed
Justin Reich
Deborah Rhine
Meredith Ridgway
Marolyn Rippe
Mary Robbins
Martha Roberts
Madeleine Rosemond
Kyla Rosenberger
Katrina Rushing
Charlotte Safi
Jean Sallee
Toni Salmons
Shari Santorelli
Rinna Saun
Janelle Schlaudt
Ana Schoellman
Laura Seale
Geraldine Sharpley
Be-Fong Shih-Foreman
Manuela Shull
Sandra Siler
Natalia Skovorodina
Dorothy Smith
Athalie Southard
Lorene Springer
Robert Steinbauer
Peggy Swaizey
Vivian Talley
Kiyoshi Tamagawa
Lisa Taylor
Lyndol Taylor
Sylvia Taylor
Catherine Tetreault
Martha Throop
Sara Toudouze
Carolyn True
Mei Tserng
Alice Tsui
Polly Tyrer-Ferraro
Sharla Van Cleave
Janice VanDerbur
Jennie Vaughan
Jose Villegas
Donna Vinarskai
Erica Vosburg
Mary Wade
Theresa Wagnon
Elizabeth Wallace
Andrea Warren
Irene Waters
Alice Welch
Margaret Wells
Thomas Wells
Jay Whatley
Colby Whitaker
Jessye Whitis
Mary Wilcox
Judy K. Wilkins
Theresa Wilson
Etta Wright
Yuk Wu
Roy Wylie
David Yeomans
Florence Young
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