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1. Our teachers sing
live
Recordings can be fun to listen to but in
a music class it is vital that the teacher can be a good model for
the children. The children need to hear their teacher sing and hear
their own voices. In our courses we help teachers guide young
children through a range of activities that include warming up,
vocalising and exploring the range of the
voice.
2. Our teachers help children explore
their voices
If
adults sing in an adult friendly pitch, down low, this is not going
to serve your child best. We help teachers to sing up high
and explore the whole range of the voice not just the lowest notes
we can produce. These will serve to turn your toddlers into
droners. They will confuse their singing and talking
voices.
3. Our program includes a range of
traditional children’s songs as well as songs specifically written
for children.
4. Our program includes movement,
both creative and non-prescribed and folk dances.
5. Our program provides the
opportunity to develop a strong sense of beat from birth and to
develop rhythmic skills for older children.
6. Our program helps teachers to
foster good listening skills.
Good listeners become good learners
and with the right experiences good musicians.
7. Our program provides opportunities for
audiation or inner hearing.
This is a process where we hear the
sounds in our heads. this process ensures that the children hear
the sounds they will produce in their heads before sounding them
out. This helps to develop greater accuracy in
singing.
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8. Our program uses instruments in a
carefully guided fashion and only once the children have a
repertoire of song to play along to.
If making more and more noise
is the sole purpose of the instruments then one would have to ask
what’s the point?
9. Our program helps children
identify different timbres or sounds of the various
instruments.
Teachers explore how children can use their
listening and audiation skills to play the instruments with greater
awareness of sound produced, sensitivity and
accuracy.
10. Our program looks at how children
learn, how the voice works, stages of development and explores the
various goals we as music educators must strive to achieve in our
teaching.
11. Our program looks at evaluation
techniques.
It’s important to remember that each
child learns differently at a different pace. Many children need to
explore a room and feel comfortable and familiar in a space and
with a group and repertoire of songs before they will interact and
participate.
12. We explore a range of fabulous resource
materials available for purchase and those that can be made simply
for effective teaching.
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