YU-CHEN, MIMI LIN (Founder)

MiMi is a refined musician, active researcher and creative educator. She believes music is one of most intuitive human expressions and the most wonderful gift in human life. As a music teacher, Yu-Chen emphasizes the importance of movement and world music in piano and music teaching. She has developed diverse curricula, such as “Music and Movement”, “The World and Me”, group and applied piano classes to foster students’ musical development.
As a collegiate instructor, Yu-Chen has taught applied piano lesson at Columbia University and has been teaching and supervising music education majors at the Pennsylvania State University. Besides teaching, Yu-Chen also actively devotes herself in research specialized in early childhood and multicultural music education. Her academic works and hands-on workshops have been presented nationally and internationally in major conferences such as Music Education National Conference (MENC), Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) and International Society for Music Education (ISME)…etc. ​

Education
Ph.D Candidate in Music Education from The Pennsylvania State University 
Master of Arts in Music & Music Education from Columbia University/Teachers College
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from Taipei National University of the Arts

Leadership
Founder and Creative Director 
Music Beans, New York, NY
Language Beans, New York, NY 

Music Director
C.C.B. School Manhattan Incorporated (Former Music Beans)
Music Program, New York, NY
Teaching Experience (Collegiate Level)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Courses Taught
 “Early Field in Music Education” 
-Instruct music education majors in children’s musical development and music learning theories. 
-Cultivate students’ development of musicianship 
-Guide students in effective music teaching at early childhood and elementary settings 
-Demonstrate and supervise students in music teaching at preschool 

“Early Childhood Practicum” 
-Guide music education majors in lesson plan design for early childhood setting 
-Supervise student teachers in weekly teaching for infants, toddlers, pre-k, and kindergarteners 

“Student Teaching: General Music”
-Supervise student teacher in music teaching at elementary and middle school level 
-Provide weekly feedbacks on student teacher’s weekly teaching 

“Music for Elementary Classroom Teacher” 
-Cultivate students’ musicianship and knowledge on children’s music learning 
-Instruct students in song teaching and activities leading in elementary classroom teaching. 
-Guide students in producing musicals. 
-Provide 6-week demonstration of music teaching for kindergarteners (for students with early childhood focus)

Columbia University/Teachers College, New York, NY, 2005~2006
-Piano Instructor 
-Deliver weekly piano lesson for adults

Teaching Experience (Collegiate Level)
Music Instructor
“Music & Movement”  (for Pre-k and kindergarteners)
Bennett Family Center, The Pennsylvania State University, PA

“Dalcroze Class” &“Chinese Lion Dance” (for Kindergarteners to 4th graders)
Westminster Conservatory at Westminster College of the Arts, Rider University, Princeton, NJ.

“Musicians All” (for toddlers)
Music Academy, State College, PA.
“Music and Movement” (for pre-K to 4th grade) 

C.C.B. School Manhattan Incorporated (Former Music Beans)
Piano Instructor
Music Beans, New York, NY
C.C.B. Manhattan School Music Program (Former Music Beans)

High School Music Instructor
Hua-Kwang Arts High School, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002~2004
Take full responsibility as mentor of tenth-grade class

Presentation & Workshop
Dalcroze Method (for music education majors)
- Presented in the course” Music Learning and Development”, 
The Pennsylvania State University, PA, March 2009 & 2010.

Chinese Lion Dance and Luogu Music (for age 5 to university students) 
- Plymouth Whitemarch High School and Colonial Elementary School, Plymouth Meeting, PA, Feb, 2010 
- SEM (The Society for Ethnomusicology) Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 2009 
- MENC Eastern Division Biennial In-Service Conference, Providence, RI, March 2009 
- SEM Annual Meeting Middletown, Outreach Program, Middletown, CT, Oct. 2008 

RESEARCH & SCHOLARLY PRESENTATION 
Lets Dance Lion: A Chinese Lion Dance Curriculum for American Children in Summer Camp
- 29th ISME (International Society of Music Education) World Conference, Beijing, China, Aug. 2010

A Chinese Lion Dance school in New York City 
-Annuel CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) meeting of Music Education Faculty, The Ohio state university, October, 2009 

Taiwanese American Children’s Spontaneous Music Making
-Thompson Symposium, State College, PA, May 2009 
-MENC (The National Association for Music Education) Eastern Division Biennial In-Service Conference, Providence, RI, April 2009  

Questions Teachers Ask (co-author)
-Annual CIC meeting, University of Minnesota, October 2008

One Day in Taipei: In Touch with Children’s Spontaneous Music Making
-(Contributing researcher and presenter)27th ISME Early Childhood Committee (ECME), Taipei, Taiwan, July 2006

Certification 
Smithsonian Institute: Certificate for Teaching Music from a Global Perspective 
MusikGarten: Certificate of Qualification for the Cycle of Seasons 
The Gordon Institute for Music Learning: Early Childhood Mastership Certificate 
Graduate Course in Dalcroze Studies 
Taiwanese Music Teacher Certificate

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