Summer Workshops
At Gordon, we believe in innovative music education. Our interactive workshops provide music educators with a unique opportunity to explore topics that prove to be inspiring and enriching in music classrooms across the country. Workshop and conference participation is open to all music educators, no matter what your educational or professional background.
2012 TOPICS AND CLINICIANS
First Steps in Music: Becoming Tuneful, Beatful and Artful
John Feierabend
All people are born with the potential to become musical. With inappropriate or limited music experiences in the early years, children consistently lost their intuitions for thinking tunes, feeling rhythms and responding to the expressiveness in music. This course will provide a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how a "natural" curriculum, rich in repertoire of traditional children's songs, rhymes. games and dances can develop young children's musical aptitude. A model of parents and children playing together in the years from birth to age three will be presented as well as a curriculum for 3–8 year old children in classroom settings.
Registration
$980 : 3 Graduate Credits or 54 PDPs
$675 : Participation Only
Schedule
July 16-20, 2012
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Developing an African Drumming Program for Your Music Classroom
Jeremy Cohen
Learn to bring the joy and power of African drumming into your music classroom. This workshop explores precision drum, bell, and shaker technique; recitation of onomatopoeic drum "vocables", and the singing of traditional West African songs. The various rhythms introduced range in difficulty from fairly simple to extremely complex, allowing you to differentiate instruction for your students. Classroom management issues and how to recruit, equip, and schedule African drumming classes and ensembles in a K–12 setting are aldo discussed.
Registration
$980 : 3 Graduate Credits or 54 PDPs
$675 : Participation Only
Schedule
July 16 - 20, 2012
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Teaching Strings in Five Easy Lessons
Walter Pavasaris
This five-session workshop will be an authentic, systematic and practical exploration of string teaching in the elementary, middle and high school settings. Participants will develop and/or hone basic skills in string pedagogy (on the violin, viola, cello and double bass) with special attention given to basic technique, fingerings, positions, bowings, tuning, articulation, materials, teaching methods and string literature. Additional topics will include selecting appropriate ensemble literature for both string and full orchestras and how to develop and nurture ensembles at the elementary and secondary levels.
Registration
$980 : 3 Graduate Credits or 54 PDPs
$675 : Participation Only
Schedule
July 16 - 20, 2012
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Bridges to the Community: Beyond the Music Classroom
Lillie Feierabend
The school year provides many opportunities for our students to become involved with music. When we provide experiences outside the classroom, we also make them available to our faculty, school and community. When the community is invited to participate in our music programs, they become invested in the child’s development and the growth of the music program, as well. It is our job to create opportunities for all the members of our community to become involved with music on a continuous and consistent basis throughout the day, the month and the year. Participants will be introduced to a dozen ways to enrich the musical growth and development of your students, your school and your community.
Registration
$480 : 1.5 Graduate Credits or 27 PDPs
$350 : Participation Only
Schedule
July 16 - 18, 2012
Mon, Tues, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Wed, 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
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Folk Dance Around the World
Lillie Feierabend
Folk Dance builds a bridge where we are offered a glimpse into another culture and are delighted to find ourselves looking back. The dances of a country or a people are imbued with their history, values, characteristics, spirit and heart. We can appreciate and begin to know a little about a people when we walk in their footsteps. Dances are delightful gifts traversing not only generations, but cultures. This knowledge can lead us to greater awareness and global understanding. Participants will be introduced to songs, play parties, passing games, and dances from over a dozen countries and cultures.
Registration
$480: 1.5 Graduate Credits or 27 PDPs
$350: Participation Only
Schedule
July 18 - 20, 2012
Wed, 1–5 p.m.; Thur, Fri, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
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More topics and clinicians will be announced as they are confirmed . . . stay tuned!