NAME:
Ms. Jeanne K. Mueller
SCHOOL:
St. John The Baptist Catholic School - Plymouth, WI
CLASS:
Middle School Music
SCHOOL PHONE:
920-893-5961
Jeanne Mueller obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music education from
Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, WI. She taught in the Sheboygan Area School
District for the past nine years and prior to that in the School District of Menomonee
Falls for six years. She instructs approximately 26 students in her private piano studio.
For ten years she served as the Youth Choir Director and Assistant Organist at First
United Lutheran Church in Sheboygan where she sang with the Sanctuary Choir and
played with the Handbell Choir. For five years Jeanne directed choirs in the
Lakeshore Youth Chorale.
During the past two summers Jeanne played flute in the Plymouth Municipal Band and
currently serves as band librarian. For the past three summers, Jeanne has been an
instructor at Lakeland College's Music Camp. She directs the Mozart Choir and
teaches classes in Music Theory.
Jeanne regularly attends regional and national conventions of the Organization of
American Kodaly Educators and has worked with Henry Leck and Ruth Dwyer of the
Indianapolis Children's Choirs, and Betty Bertaux and Marty Goetze, both outstanding
composers of children's choir literature. Two years ago Jeanne had the privilege of
working with Elaine Quillichini of the Calgary Girl's Choir. Jeanne's school choirs have
sung with Great Britain's Orlando Consort and with the Baltimore Consort here in the
United States.
Students in Jeanne's after-school program for gifted music students have participated
in regional and state competitions in the Listening Competition sponsored by the
Wisconsin State Music Educators.
Currently, Jeanne is a part-time funeral assistant at the Novak-Ramm-Ziegler Funeral
Home in Sheboygan and is attending Milwaukee Area Technical Institute in West Allis
with the goal of becoming a licensed funeral director.
Jeanne's son, Branden, is the band director at Riverview Middle School and director of
the Plymouth Municipal Band. Her daughter, Tricia, is the Social Services Director at
Sheboygan Progressive Care Center in Sheboygan.
Our mission in middle school music class is to become life-long musicians following
the National Standards for Music Education:
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside
the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.