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Katherine Goins Frewen has taken her decade of post-grad education experience \u2013 she earned a doctor of musical arts \u2013 into a public school serving urban teenagers. Katie says she loves her work, and her students say she is an inspiring teacher.<\/p>\n

She draws upon the model provided by Kenneth J. Nafziger<\/a> and other professors of visualizing the final product one wishes to shape and then setting up sequential steps to get students to arrive at the desired completion point.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven masterful musicians need training to become excellent teachers,\u201d she says. \u201cYou have to know how to break down what you are trying to achieve, how to start at the beginning, and how to lead your students through the process, putting it all together at the end. Ken showed me how you can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening to your passion<\/h3>\n

She traces all that education to the early 1990s, when she heard the touring choir of Eastern Mennonite High School<\/a>, directed by Jay Hartzler, perform at nearby Zion Mennonite Church.<\/p>\n

Katie was enrolled in public school. \u201cI turned to my mom and said, \u2018I want to go there,\u2019\u201d Frewen recalls. Her family was a newcomer to the Mennonite tradition. From singing at EMHS<\/span>, Frewen progressed to organ, piano, and voice instruction at EMU<\/span>.<\/p>\n

She became the piano rehearsal accompanist for the Shenandoah Valley Children\u2019s Choir<\/a> and sang with the Chamber Singers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earning a living through music<\/h3>\n

Katie did not visualize herself in a middle school classroom when she was performing difficult piano pieces as a graduate student, but she has learned that it pays to be multi-talented when one is trying to earn a living through music.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarning a living as a concert pianist is incredibly difficult. The performing musicians I know supplement their income by teaching privately and performing or accompanying in lots of settings \u2013 churches, schools, marriages, funerals, entertainment spots. They have to be flexible, and they have to be willing to work nights, and weekends, and to travel to gigs. I am really happy to be in a situation [as a salaried schoolteacher] where I have regular hours, appropriate compensation, supportive administrators, and nice colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

More about Katie<\/h3>\n

After earning her 2001 degree in music from EMU<\/span>, she earned a doctor of musical arts (music education) at the University of Texas at Austin and a master\u2019s in music performance (piano) at the University of Ohio. Katie and her husband Thomas welcomed their first child in March 2011.<\/p>\n

Katie\u2019s two siblings are also EMU<\/span> alumni, with terminal degrees. Matthew Goins \u201900 is an anesthesiologist at one of Harvard\u2019s teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. And Joanna Goins Myers \u201904 earned a law degree at George Washington University and is a tax attorney at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP<\/span> in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Summarized from an article in the Fall 2010-11 issue of Crossroads<\/a>, EMU\u2019s alumni magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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