How to effectively teach songs from other cultures
Professional Development Bundle
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23m
In this training, we'll discuss ways to teach songs from other cultures or countries with lower and upper elementary grades.
Key take aways from this training include:
1. “Listen to an unfamiliar song and become familiar with it and practice it before you try to teach it. But, remember to give yourself grace as well.”
2. “If your students don’t learn music from other cultures and countries in their music classroom, there’s a good chance they won’t be learning that music anywhere else.”
3. “If you’re uncomfortable teaching multi-cultural songs to your students, just remember that you’re the music teacher and they don’t care about what you sound like as much as you think they do.”
4. “Look at the resources you already have in your classroom and you probably have plenty of songs you can already teach.”
5. “You’ll also find several resources to teach songs from other cultures at workshops and trainings or even inside of The Elementary Music Teacher Academy.”
6. “What I like to do is teach a different culture each month.”
7. “While teaching about a culture of the month, create a bulletin board that will go over a visual representation of what the people from that culture wear, eat, and how they live.”
8. “Talk about where their music originated and why the people like their music.”
9. “Don’t spend all your time just teaching music from other cultures, but include it in what you’re teaching every day.”
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