Membership
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For more details on membership, visit the MTNA membership page.
The Music Teachers National Association offers a networking system to keep members informed and up-to-date on techniques used by the most revered educators in the profession.
Membership benefits include:
KCMTA meetings and workshops
KCMTA newsletter
KCMTA piano syllabus
KCMTA media library
Music Progressions resource handbook and resource guide
American Music Teacher magazine, with articles on pedagogical approaches, coping with today’s students, and relevant news from around the nation.
Grant opportunities
Insurance products
Legal, tax, and business advice
Networking opportunities
Professional certification program
State and national conferences
Student performance opportunities
Individual Membership
Your membership is a joint membership with MTNA, Kansas or Missouri MTA, and Kansas City MTA. Add national, state, and local dues to determine your total.
For a description of other member services please go to:
http://www.mtna.org/membership-benefits/
How to Join:
If you are a new member or local renewing member, you can join online! Then contact our local membership Chair, Megan Gordon (megangordonpiano@gmail.com).
MTNA Professional Certification
Chair: Lisa Cattanach, NCTM lcatt78@gmail.com
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 interact 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.
National certification will set you apart as a teacher of high professional standards.
To learn more about the process to become certified and to download a certification packet, please visit: https://www.certification.mtna.org
Teachers who are interested in pursuing certification will be encouraged to work in small groups led by the certification chair, Lisa Cattanach, NCTM. Teachers can contact the chair directly.