{"id":5793,"date":"2010-06-08T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=5793"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:05:59","slug":"5793_music-student-receives-2010-new-jersey-distinguished-student-teacher-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/2010\/06\/08\/5793_music-student-receives-2010-new-jersey-distinguished-student-teacher-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Student Receives 2010 New Jersey Distinguished Student Teacher Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Montclair State University graduate, Michael Mahadeen, has been named a recipient of the 2010 New Jersey Distinguished Student Teacher award by the New Jersey Department of Education.&nbsp; This award recognizes the state&#8217;s top 15 student teachers for the academic year from among the thousands of student teachers at the 22 teacher-preparing colleges and universities in the state. He was nominated by Montclair State University faculty, and was selected by a panel of educational leaders from across the state based on his academic record, recommendations, cooperating teacher evaluation and recommendation, and personal essay. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mahadeen graduated in May with a 3.8 grade point average and a double major in Music with Music Education Concentration and Music with Theory\/Composition Concentration.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to Mahadeen, &quot;when proper instruction is provided in music, it is possible to take any student to&#8230;a place where times ceases for a moment, and they feel empowered and capable of accomplishing anything while making deep, meaningful, and expressive art for all.&quot;&nbsp; His primary instrument is the clarinet, and he also plays the saxophone, flute, and piano.&nbsp; Mr. Mahadeen completed his student teaching in the Livingston School District.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Montclair State University graduate, Michael Mahadeen, has been named a recipient of the 2010 New Jersey Distinguished Student Teacher award by the New Jersey Department of Education.&nbsp; This award recognizes the state&#8217;s top 15 student teachers for the academic year from among the thousands of student teachers at the 22 teacher-preparing colleges and universities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}