2026 Maine Music Educators Association Conference

Improvisation is an important facet of a comprehensive general music education. This session will engage participants in music making through a variety of activities utilized to teach music for and with improvisation in general music classrooms. In addition to generating improvised music, we will discuss the values and benefits of providing students with learning opportunities through improvisation, different applications of improvisation activities, challenges to teaching improvisation and overcoming those challenges, and some of the myths about learning to improvise. Join this session to make music and reflect on the inclusion of improvisation in general music curricula.