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Using music education professors as gatekeepers, an online questionnaire was administered to junior and senior students in a U.S. Midwest region. 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Specifically, the author was interested in which classes the respondents were taught to construct and use lesson plans, their perceptions about the importance of lesson planning, and how prepared they felt to use lesson plans  . Using music education professors as gatekeepers, the author distributed an online questionnaire to junior and senior music education students in a Midwest region of the United States  . One hundred and seven participants responded to the online survey . Nearly all the respondents (97  . 2%) indicated that they planned to use lesson planning during their first year of teaching  . The most frequently chosen reason to plan was to prepare for ensemble rehearsals  . Respondents also indicated that they were taught and used lesson planning more in music education than music method or general education courses  . Implications for music teacher educators and future directions for lesson planning design are discussed  .  \nKeywords: lesson planning, music teacher preparation, preservice teaching, rehearsal preparation  \nIntroduction  \nLesson planning can be summarized as a logical development of instructional requirements, materials, objectives, and activities that are used to assess teaching and learning (Ferrell, 1992; Panasuk & Todd, 2005; Skowron, 2001) . Nevertheless, the manner in which lesson plans are defined and constructed can often be unclear (Hill, Yinger, & Robins, 1983; Jorgensen, 2002). Preservice teachers often write more scripted plans than experienced teachers; however, they seem to find planning to be unnecessary (Brittin, 2005; Schmidt, 2005) . In contrast, experienced teachers prefer to plan mentally and include more sequential tasks in their plans than preservice teachers (Clark & Peterson, 1984; Goolsby, 1999) .  \nContributions to Music Education  \nAlthough educators sometimes disagree about how to use lessons plans, most inservice teachers do agree that some type of planning is necessary (Bauer & Berg, 2001; Fredrickson, Geringer, & Pope, 2013; Teachout, 1997; Tsui, 2009) . Other researchers have found that preservice teachers see the process as a chore that can obstruct the teaching process (Harwood & Wiggins, 2001; Schmidt, 2005) . Despite this evidence, many pedagogical textbooks include sections on lesson planning, including components of an effective plan, templates for classroom use, and desired length of lesson plans (Abeles, Hoffer, & Klotman, 1994; Colwell & Hewitt, 2011; Kearns, 2011; Savage, 2014) .  \nThere are differences between how preservice and experienced teachers uselesson plans. Veteran teachers often plan mentally or without traditional written plans, frequently in verbal discussion with colleagues (Clark & Peterson, 1984) . In general education settings, researchers have found that preservice teachers’ understanding of how to write lesson plans is still in the formative stages of development because their plans seem to be unclear and teacher-centered (Butler, 2001; Leinhardt, 1989) . Likewise, there is evidence that novices are less effective when attempting to fix issues that were not specifically found in their scripted plans (Borko, Livingston, & Shavelson, 1990) .  \nRelatedly, in music education there are differences in how beginner and expert teachers plan. Goolsby (1999) had 10 expert and 10 novice teachers prepare an identical score for rehearsal. After analyzing 216 rehearsals, he found that novice teachers spend more time in rehearsals playing repertoire from the beginning to the end, whereas experts had more sequenced rehearsals. Contrary to novices’ lesson plans, expert teachers were more specific and used fewer words when writing out lesson plans (Brittin, 2005; Goo","cbCair5fg4IMIqEA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair5fg4IMIqEA","pdf",895401,28,"English","# Introduction\n## Purpose and research focus\n## Lesson planning definitions and preservice–experienced differences\n## Contributions to Music Education\n## Planning practices in music education","[{\"question\":\"What was the study’s main purpose regarding lesson planning?\",\"answer\":\"The study examined music education majors’ perceptions of lesson planning in university curricula, including which classes teach planning, its importance, and how prepared students felt to use lesson plans.\"},{\"question\":\"Who participated in the research and how were they surveyed?\",\"answer\":\"The author used music education professors as gatekeepers to distribute an online questionnaire to junior and senior music education students in a U.S. Midwest region.\"},{\"question\":\"What did most respondents indicate about using lesson plans early in teaching?\",\"answer\":\"Nearly all respondents (97.2%) reported they would use lesson planning during their first year of teaching, most frequently citing preparation for ensemble rehearsals.\"}]","An Examination of Music Education Majors’ Perceptions of Lesson Planning | PDF",1792089695,71]