Description

Historically general and instrumental music education in the United States has been influenced most by Western and European cultural traditions and art. This in-person two-part workshop will be a dynamic experience designed to help teachers, administrators, and music and instrumental instructors enhance music instruction from a student-centered, diverse, and culturally responsive lens.

Educators will:

• Experience the musical excellence of Carl Brister.
• Learn music terminology including…..
  • Oral traditions
  • Improvisation
  • Tone Language
  • Clave
• Engage with students in a more dynamic, learning environment that values and includes the cultures, identity, and voices of each student within the learning
• Discover how music can be learned utilizing the experiences that students bring into the learning space and how the learning can be applied to their communities.
• Consider how Culturally Responsive Music Teaching nurtures insight into the themes of musicality, societal, cultural, historically contextual, critical, imaginative, and global thinking
• Engage with Turn/Talk, Self-Reflection, and Share Out strategies to assess participant learning
• Establish criteria that allows educators to apply session skills and understanding to their teaching and learning practice.

YA Connections:

NJSLS-VPA:

• Creating: Participants will generate and conceptualize ideas as they engage with the selected elements of music education.
• Performing: Participants will perform vocal exercises and community songwriting activities
• Responding: Participants will use art form specific vocabulary and lived experience to analyze and interpret musical expressions.
• Connecting: Participants will make connections to history and personal lived experience.

Professional Standards for Education

• Respect: Teachers should respect and honor each student’s efforts and offer encouragement.
• Learning styles: Teachers should recognize and accommodate learning styles and abilities.
• Learning Environment: Teachers should strive to create environments that support individual and collaborative learning, and that encourage positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation

Culturally Responsive Practice

• Engage with music & instrumental practices grounded in the Black & African Diaspora.
• Teachers will engage with ways to assign agency to students.

Social-Emotional Learning

Self Awareness & Create: Participants will organize and develop creative ideas while recognizing the impact of one’s personal strengths.

Please email Michelle Marigliano or call 866-500-9265 for more information.