Timothy S.
Brophy
School of Music
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Specialization: Music Education
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tbrophy@arts.ufl.edu
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358 MUB P.O. Box 117900
Gainesville, Fl 32611-7900
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Timothy S. Brophy is Assistant Dean for Research, Technology, and Administrative Affairs in the College of Fine Arts, and Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Florida. A highly awarded classroom music teacher, he received an Ashland Teacher Achievement Award (1996), a Memphis Rotary Club Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence, and was the first elementary music teacher to be honored at the Disney American Teacher Awards in Los Angeles in 1998. As a college teacher, he has been named the 2004 Hillsborough County Elementary Music Educator of the Year (Tampa, Florida), inducted into the Carl Lampert Music Hall of Fame at the University of Kentucky as a distinguished alumnus, and is the Florida Music Educator Association’s 2006 College Music Educator of the Year.
An active music education writer and clinician, he has published over 40 articles that have appeared in numerous journals. He is sole author of three books, including the widely acclaimed Assessing the Developing Child Musician. Dr. Brophy has conducted music education workshop sessions and made presentations throughout the United States and Canada, England, Spain, China, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia.
His research has focused on music assessment and the development of children’s melodic improvisations. He has been a member of the editorial boards of The Music Educators Journal, the Orff Echo, and Teaching Music. He has served as the Editor of Research Perspectives in Music Education and currently is the co-editor of The International Journal of Music Education: Practice. He is the immediate past Research Chair for the Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA), and chair of the Florida Music Assessment Task Force. He is Chair of the MENC Assessment Special Research Interest Group.
Dr. Brophy has focused international attention on assessment in music education as the Organizing Chair of Integrating Curriculum, Theory, and Practice: The 1st International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education, held at the University of Florida in March 2007, and the 2nd International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education (ISAME) at the University of Florida, titled The Practice of Assessment in Music Education: Frameworks, Models, and Designs, held in April 2009. The 3rd ISAME, titled The Culture of Shared Practice: Music Assessment across Cultures and Continents, will be held March 8-11, 2011, on the campus of the University of Bremen in Bremen, Germany.