Summer Workshops

Choral Music Teaching and Learning From Ages 6 to 66 - Developing Musicianship From Rehearsals to the Stage
Dr. Paul Rardin, and Deborah Mello

Over this four day workshop, two of the most influential choral music educators from the Mid-Atlantic region of the US will engage participants in a variety of choral music education topics for a diverse range of ages, and diverse music teaching and learning settings.

Using the context and expertise of chairing the Choral Music and Vocal Arts Department at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he oversees seven choirs, Dr. Paul Rardin will lead sessions which include the following content, and encourage active participation from attendees:

• Bringing Performance Practice to Life in Rehearsal
• Bad Choral Music and How to Spot It
• Conducting Master Class
• Working with Instrumentalists
• Score Study Primer

Former Chair of the ACDA National Committee for Children's Choirs, Deborah Mello is highly sought after as a leader of workshops on elementary music education and choral singing with children in the US and abroad. Deborah will lead sessions that include the following content, and encourage active participation from attendees:

• Finding the Mustard Seed: What to Begin Teaching in the First Rehearsal
• Rehearsal Techniques for Limited and Inconsistent Rehearsal Time
• From the Classroom to the Concert Stage - Game Songs From Octavo Arrangements
• From Children's Storybooks to Choral Performance
• Movement in the Choral Rehearsal

Both Dr. Rardin and Deborah Mello will incorporate reading sessions over the four days, and participants will be provided with a reading packet of approximately 25 pieces of choral music ranging from appropriate for secondary and collegiate students to early elementary singers.​

Registration*
$750: 2 Graduate Credits or 45 PDPs (requires attendance at all sessions, Sunday–Wednesday)
$495: Participation Only

*Registration fee includes welcome dinner reception on Sunday night, and daily morning and afternoon coffee breaks.

Schedule*
Sunday, July 15, 2018; 4:30–8:30 pm
Monday–Tuesday, July 16–17, 2018; 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018; 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

*Please note this workshop begins on SUNDAY EVENING, July 15, 2018. The Sunday evening session is a required portion of the workshop. Participants are expected to be in attendance on Sunday evening, from 4:30–8:30 p.m.

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First Steps in Music
Dr. John Feierabend

All people are born with the potential to become musical. With inappropriate or limited musical experiences in the early years, children consistently lose their intuitions for thinking tunes, feeling rhythms, and responding to expressiveness in music. The course will provide a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how a "natural" curriculum rich in the 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 3 will be presented, as well as a curriculum for 3– 8-year-old children in classroom settings. Participants can receive certification in First Steps in Music by the Feierabend Association for Music Education.

Registration 
$990: 3 Graduate Credits or 67.5 PDPs (Professional Development Points)
$775: Participation Only

Schedule*
July 16–20, 2018
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Teaching Improvisation: Where to Begin
Dr. Christopher Azzara

According to the National Standards for Music Education, everyone should be teaching improvisation. This class will provide a common sense approach that improves your musicianship and that of your students—making connections for general, vocal, and instrumental teachers at all levels of instruction and experience. Using Christopher Azzara's publication Developing Musicianship Through Improvisation, participants will be introduced to practical techniques designed to (1) improve musicianship; (2) develop improvisation skills in a variety of musical styles; (3) include improvisation as an integral part of teaching and learning; (4) define relationships among improvisation, reading and composition; and (5) assess students' learning. The course will also use Dr. Azzara's newest publication, Developing Musicianship Through Improvisation 1-B. Since recordings for this most recent book are currently in process, participants will be given special permission to use pre-publication drafts.

Registration
$990: 3 Graduate Credits or 67.5 PDPs
$775: Participation Only

Schedule
July 16–20, 2018
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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A General Music Ukulele Curriculum
Kenneth Trapp

The New National Core Music Standards provide a framework for developing student independence and musical literacy. The spirit of these standards is to build life-long music learners who can naturally play traditional and non-traditional instruments.

The ukulele has become very popular and is a user-friendly instrument for school-age children. Many times teachers are uncertain how to get students up and running on the instrument in a musical way.

This session will present simple ideas and activities for connecting students' natural music-making skills with ukulele performance. The goal of this session is to help participants understand how general music activities can be sequenced and connected to beginning ukulele lessons. Sessions will also demonstrate how collaboration and differentiated instruction are natural and powerful models for learning. Instruments can be available for loan from the Gordon College Department of Music.

Participants will:

• Learn to sing and play harmony in a linear manner
• Develop skills to play melodic patterns by ear
• Realize how aural skill development will lead naturally to music reading.
• Learn to play chord patterns in multiple styles including strumming and picking
• Learn to work in groups to create arrangements and accompaniments
• Learn how to include many styles of music including folk, rock, classical and pop
• Develop ways to construct collaborative group work that can create two- and three-part ukulele choirs

$495: 1.5 Graduate credits or 33.75 PDPs
$385: Participation Only

Schedule
July 16–18, 2018
Monday–Tuesday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m.

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Virtual World Music Field Experiences for Real Music Classrooms
Dr. Sarah Bartolome

The purpose of this interactive workshop is to explore musical cultures from around the world as a starting point for developing culturally situated music experiences for the classroom. The concept of the "Virtual Field Experience" will be discussed as a means of providing students with opportunities to learn about and interact with diverse musical cultures.

Participants will examine this alternative, multi-dimensional approach to the integration of multicultural content as a way to teach comprehensive musicianship and provide cultural context for students. Participants will experience a collection of multicultural music activities drawn from a variety of world musical cultures including Lithuania, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Panama, and Cajun country in Louisiana. Internet and print resources suitable for developing multicultural lessons and VFE units will also be introduced and discussed. Participants will emerge with a packet of multicultural activities ready for integration into curricula and also a better understanding of how to develop meaningful Virtual Field Experiences based on their own instructional needs and interests.

Registration
$495: 1.5 Graduate Credits or 33.75 PDPs
$385: Participation Only

Schedule
July 18–20, 2018
Wednesday, 1 p.m.–5 p.m.
Thursday - Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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