Weeding and Planting: Helping Musicians Grow Through Pop Music in the Elementary Classroom
Saturday, January 25, 2025
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Description
Are you using the same songs and lessons year after year? Let’s weed through some of your standbys and students will reap the benefits of using popular music to engage in musical growth.
Observe a process of choosing quality music for your classroom, and gain the tools necessary to turn good music into good lessons and learning experiences.
Speakers
Niki Rose
Amber Cooper
Amber Cooper
Learning Objective 1
Participants will assess current resources and explore new music and lessons.
Learning Objective 2
Participants will observe a framework to help select quality music for their students. This will include steps for turning good music into good learning while focusing on standards based growth.
Learning Objective 3
Participants will learn new tools to create tracks, transcribe, and transpose this new music and turn it into accessible lessons.
Session Level
Elementary
Session Type
Lecture