Eric Trio currently teaches kindergarten through fourth grade general music at St. Clairsville Elementary in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He has a combined span of 19 years in music education with prior teaching experience in instrumental music at the secondary and primary levels. He has completed his master’s degree in music education at Shepherd University and a bachelor’s degree in music education at West Virginia University.
Eric has served as an army bandsman in the 249th Army National Guard Band in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is also an active conductor throughout the Ohio Valley area where he resides. He has also completed all three levels of Orff-Schulwerk teacher education courses at the University of Kentucky. He has presented at his local Orff chapter where he currently serves as president. Eric has also recently presented at the collegiate level and co-presented at the West Virginia state music educators conference.
Eric is currently a member of AOSA, OMEA and NAfME.
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Music education in today’s society has become ever more important for a child’s intellectual growth. With the technology of today giving people results instantaneously, children are being cultured to absorb information in a superficial way. Many live experiences such as attending professional symphony concerts and other live performing events is a thing of the past for many average children growing up in the world today.
Music is an art that has the ability to touch the heart and reach the depths of the human soul. Music has many different meanings and values to all people across the world. Music provides us with many opportunities in order for us to create musical expressions of emotions, musical representations of people, places, and different cultures. Music gives people the opportunity to make connections in their life functionally, actively, and intellectually.
I, as a music educator, must have the drive to invest the time and energy needed to bring a true and meaningful experience to my students in the classroom. Those meaningful experiences will come from active music making in the classroom. The musical learning modalities of: speech, singing, moving and playing will be utilized to help unlock students’ creative potential throughout the learning process.
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