Walden School - Teacher Training

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Teacher Training Institute

2010 Dates

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Walden School Teacher Training Institute offers professional development opportunities to help music educators sharpen their musicianship skills, enrich their teaching with imaginative activities, and more effectively guide the creative voices of their students.

Workshops offered by The Walden School Teacher Training Institute are based upon The Walden School Musicianship Course, an original approach to teaching the fundamentals of music with an emphasis on creative application, specifically through music improvisation and composition. In addition, the course offers activity-based methods for developing high-level fluency with theoretical concepts and effective methods for teaching ear training.

"[At the workshop], I felt like I was learning all the time, growing in several dimensions."

The Walden School Musicianship Course specializes in offering creative activities that are flexible and adaptable to a multitude of educational situations. Teachers fluent in Walden School methods are able to develop highly effective and personalized curricula. They are also able to infuse their teaching with "creative play" - inventive drills and improvisational games that not only develop fluency with theoretical concepts, but also make classrooms lively and inspiring, and help students discover a personal, creative voice.

At a Walden School Teacher Training workshop...

...a STUDIO MUSIC TEACHER will learn fun, interactive ways of teaching the music fundamentals that are so vital to all musicians. He will return home invigorated and inspired to try new activities in his lessons, activities that will not only stimulate his own creativity as a teacher, but will also achieve more effective results with his students.

“...A PRIMARY, MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER will learn stimulating, effective, and proven methods for teaching music theory, rhythms and solfege. Through The Teacher Training Institute's Certification Program, she will be mentored through a process of designing and implementing courses for her students that will improve their ensemble skills in measurable ways.

...a COLLEGE MUSIC THEORY TEACHER will learn an activity-based approach to teaching college level music theory. He will return to his classroom with ideas for helping his students lift the music off the page - through singing, playing, and other creative activities that illuminate music structures.

...a RESIDENT COMPOSER-IN-THE-SCHOOLS will gain access to a proven curriculum for teaching music with an emphasis on improvisation and composition. Through the Teacher Training Institute's Certification Program she will partner with experienced Institute faculty in developing specific activities that will inspire compositional creativity in her students.

The Walden School admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.