Rodney Mueller

Teaching Assistant for Technology in Music Education (Music 210-fall) (Music 210-spring)
Music Education Division, School of Music,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1114 W. Nevada, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Assistant Conductor
Sangamon Valley Youth Orchestras: Prep Orchestra and Jr. Strings
Springfield, Ill.

I am presently living in Champaign , Ill with my family.

Email: r-muell@uiuc.edu


I am a third year EdD student in music education with a concentration in string pedagogy/string education at the University of Illinois at Champaigh-Urbana. I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in music and music education from Wheaton College, Illinois and Northern Michigan University, Marquette. I have 15 years of teaching experience having taught in Grinnell, Iowa; Sheffield, England; and Three Hills, Alberta in both public and private schools working with pre-school through post-secondary age students.

I am presently working on a multimedia project for teaching vibrato which should prove useful for string pedagogy and string methods classes.

One of my favorite places is Norway, Michigan in the beautiful Upper Penninsula of Michigan.

Resources for String Teachers/Orchestra Directors is a project that I am creating for my EdPsych 378 class. It is an extension of Tina Scott's Music Education Resource Guide and focuses on resources for practicing string educators as well as those preparing to be string educators.


These are my favorite links for music education: Florida State University School of Music Home Page

Tina Scott's Music Education Resource Guide

The MKB Music Harmony List presents a listing of home pages that are music based. It will be useful for both music students as well as teachers. There are dozens of categories and hundreds of home pages.

These are my favorite links for career services/job placement:

Educational Placement Office, UI-UC

Career Planning and Professional Development

Chronicle of Higher Education weekly job listing

Job Hunting Strategies (Leads, resumes, interviews...)