UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

College of Music
Music Education Department

MuEd 110 2nd Sem-2020

Voice Practicum
TTh 1:00-2:30PM

COURSE GUIDE

Course Description
Welcome to the MuEd 110 Voice Practicum Course!
Teaching singing must go virtual! The current health situation, albeit radically changing music
learning, has ushered limitless and creative opportunities to learn. As pre-recorded
accompaniment and singing have inevitably replaced live performances, masterclasses with
virtuosos have become so openly available without the need to travel abroad. Lessons and
consultations with one’s own voice teacher is at one’s fingertips if the connection is good enough.
Learning has never been exciting.
MuEd 110 is a continuing course on vocal pedagogy which you had in MuEd 105.

Course Outcomes
After completing this course, you should be able to
1) Demonstrate in individualized plan of voice instruction for
a) an adult student 18 years and above
b) a young student 17 or below not younger than 8 years old.

2) Conduct recorded voice lessons for at least 10 sessions (maximum of 14/not more
than 2 lessons per week) for each of the participant (adult & young student).
3) Conduct a virtual recital for these students.
 Course Schedule Course Requirements
Wk Tuesday Requirements Points
Meetings Individual Portfolio REQUIRED
Complete
1 2-Mar-21 Preliminaries, Course Guide, ✓ 3 Recorded Voice lessons with
portfolio
Instructional Planning Lesson Plan LP
Consultation & Checking of ✓ Proof of attendance Due: JUNE
Plans commences ✓ Reply letter of students (signed) 20
2 9-Mar-21 • Introduction of Students ✓ Pre & Post Coaching Profile
• Fill in Pre-coaching profile ✓ 3 Personal Journal Notes entry on
per student students, platform experience,
3 16-Mar-21 techniques, technology worked, etc.
✓ Assigned Repertoire (in pdf/jpeg)
4 23-Mar-21 ✓ 3 Recorded Voice lessons with
Lesson Plan LP 100
5 30-Mar-21 Choose 1 lesson from each: (ave)
Days 1 to 3 (due April 1)
6 6-Apr-21 Submit repertoire for Days 4-8 (due April 29)
approval. Days 9-14 (due: June 3)
due April 6 Rubrics:
• Teaching Competence & Confidence-40
7 13-Apr-21 • Preparedness & Quality of LP—------30
• Clarity of Communication---------------30
8 20-Apr-21 Virtual Recital (group grade)
9 27-Apr-21 (FYI, April 29 Thurs-May 5 Wed (due June 15,2021) 100
Reading Break) Rubics:
10 4-May-21 Organization & Flow—---------------------------30
11 11-May-21 Quality & Professionalism of Presentation-30
12 18-May-21 Overall Performance—--------------------------40
13 25-May-21 Pubmats due May 25 Virtual Recital Individual performance per 100 (ave)
14 1-Jun-21 Program Notes & Certificates student (individual grade)
due June 1 Rubics:
15 8-Jun-21 (FYI, June 11 Fri End of classes) Preparedness (mastery of song)—-----------30
16 15-Jun-21 VIRTUAL RECITAL Stance (posture & confidence)—-------------30
Overall performance-----------------------------40
Preparation & Coordination & Repertoire 100
Rubrics:
Professionalism & communication-----------30
Proper scheduling & Meeting Deadlines---30
Completeness of necessary details (title,
Grading System composer, arranger)----------------------------40
UP 500 Certificates (due June 1) 100
Grade points Program Notes (due June 1) (ave)
Pub mats (due May 25)
AWESOME 1 485-500
Rubrics:
1.25 475-484 Quality & Design----------------------------------30
IMPRESSIVE 1.5 460-474 Accuracy (grammar, spelling of names,etc)—--30
1.75 445-459 Overall Presentation-----------------------------40
Complete Portfolio in google drive REQUIRED
GOOD 2 430-444 Contains:
Complete
2.25 415-429 ✓ Recital video portfolio
SO-SO 2.5 405-414 ✓ Signed certificates
✓ Program notes Due: JUNE
3 375-404 20
✓ Pub mat/poster
OH NO! 5 0-374 TOTAL 500
 VIRTUAL RECITAL
Committees Tasks Name of in charge
• Sets the video
requirements.
• Compiles all videos in a
google drive. Nelson
Video Director & Editor • Edits videos
• Repertoire line up & flow
• Coordinates with
accompanist/s & teachers for
pdf scores & recorded Jillian
Performance Coordinator accompaniment
• Coordinates with all
committees to submit all
MuEd 110 files into one
portfolio (google drive)
• Prepares certificate for Yuka
Secretariat accompanist & performers
• Does Pubmats on FB etc.
• Gathers information
teachers, performers and Taiga
Programme Director instructor for program notes

Mode of Delivery
Course Site: Google classroom (and other viable sites as needed)
Go to https://classroom.google.com/c/Mjk0MzM2Mzk2Njkx?cjc=xcod5ml
Communication Plan
• Tuesdays—1:15-2:30PM synchronous via zoom
https://up-edu.zoom.us/j/82939697227
Meeting ID: 829 3969 7227
Passcode: practicum

• Any day for quick, urgent messages

Messenger Group Chat

House Rules
1. Be kind to yourself and to others. Try your best to observe house rules, but if you cannot do
so, please tell me as soon as possible. This semester will be a period of adjustment and lots of
patience.
2. Be mindful of the value of time. Try to keep up with the lessons.
3. Remember the values of UP—live honor and strive for excellence by
• respecting intellectual property rights (e.g., NOT sharing or distributing any part of the
copyrighted materials which have been made available to you solely for the educational
purposes of this course).
• observing academic honesty and the ethics of scholarship in the course
• following the Basic Plagiarism Rules https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism
4. Reach out when you need help. Immediately get in touch with a classmate and/or me for
support. We are together in this journey.
5. Enjoy teaching and learning with your students. Make singing a rest and recreation for them.
About the Instructor
I am Maria Sherla Najera, your course instructor. I am currently the Music Education Department
Chair and an adjunct faculty member of the Voice Department of the University of the Philippines
where I acquired my Baccalaureate in Music major in Voice (cum laude) and Master of Music in
Music Education with the UP-OVCRD funded experimental research Pedagogical Implications
on the Relationship of Formant Change (F1,F2) and the Qualitative Perception of Sung Vowels
(2005). I was under the tutelage of Prof. Cecilia Ongsiako-Valeña. I performed as a soprano
soloist in Handel’s Messiah for 3 years; essayed the role of Belinda in Henry Purcell’s opera Dido
and Aeneas and Maria Clara in Felipe Padilla Sr.’s opera Noli Me Tangere; as soloist in concerts
featuring Early Music Homage L'Enfant, Cantus Puero, Musique De L’Amour, Mostly R n B: A
Renaissance and Baroque, Baroque Overdose and Gloria by Vivaldi; solo concerts in Paco Park
doing Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio and with Augusto Espino performing his own
compositions; at the International Bamboo Organ Festivals: 37th (2012), 38th (2013), 39th
(2014), 41st (2016), 42nd (2017),43rd (2018), 44th (2019). I participated in masterclasses with
Ena Aldecoa, Evelyn Mandac, Abdul Candao, Eddye Pierce-Young, and Victoria Rapanan
among others, and a workshop on Flow Phonation Techniques with the Vocal Technicians from
the Mc Closky Institute of Voice, Boston, USA. My repertoire includes early music, opera arias,
art songs, contemporary and kundiman. A musician and teacher at heart, I specialize in vocal
performance and pedagogy, choral music and Gregorian chant, music education and community
music-service learning.

@ Maria Sherla Najera 2021