2008 Music Education Workshops- June 23 - 27

Workshop I June 23-24
Musical Moments: Relishing Joyful Interactions with K-6 Children in the Elementary School
Do children transfer what they learn with us in the classroom to their music lives out of school? During this two-day workshop, we’ll consider ways to insure a continued answer of “Yes!” to that question. We’ll explore multi-dimensional ways to interact or converse using music. We will consider language acquisition and language interactions as a useful parallel for music acquisition and music interactions. We’ll label our dynamic “topics of conversation” as a repertoire of movements, tunes, and chants--new ones as well as old favorites. We’ll consider ways to engage our K-6 students in conversations on those topics using music and movement repertoire. To interact, we’ll breathe, listen, move, perform, echo, recall, label, create, improvise, compare, contrast, read, write, compose, self-monitor, adjust, and evaluate. We’ll consider ways you can organize successful solitary music interactions and discover that our ability to coordinate that type of interaction can positively affect life-styles! Then, we’ll practice creating activities using those ideas. You will learn about prioritizing creativity, improvisation, and composition activities and means of assessment which relate to national and state standards. Teachers should wear comfortable clothes and shoes to move, sing, chant, and play. Don’t miss this workshop!

Instructor: Dr. Alison Reynolds is Associate Professor of Music Education at Temple University where she teaches courses in music learning and development, general music methods, and research and also supervises student teachers and guides graduate research. Her teaching experiences include K-5 general and choral music in TX, CT, and OH, and early childhood music with children from birth to age five in CT, OH, MS, and PA. She is co-author of Jump Right In: The Music Curriculum, Revised Edition (2000-2006), Music Play - Jump Right In: Early Childhood Music Curriculum (1998), published by GIA. Her research interests include service-learning in music education, music acquisition, movement, music aptitude, and reflective practice. Her research is published in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, and Journal of Music Teacher Education. She has presented sessions for ISME (International Society for Music Education), MENC, regional and state music education conference venues, university seminars, and international service-learning research conferences. She is co-founder of a collaborative teaching and research partnership in Beijing, China: The Little Oak School and Boyer College of Music and Dance: Sound Partners in Early Childhood Music Education

Workshop II June 24
Choral Vitamin B-12 Shots for Revitalizing Yourself and Your Program
Music teachers, get ready for practical advice on the 3 R’s: Rehearsing, Recruiting, and Rehabilitation. This workshop will be packed with information and inspiration. You’ll get the “best of the best” in four sessions during the day: (a) The Warm-up Regimen--Oxymoron No More! (b) Taking Joy in the Imperfect Rehearsal; (c) What They Forgot to Teach or Were Afraid You Would Find Out; and (d) Tim’s Favorites - “Sugar Sticks” of the Choral Repertoire. The hallmark of any session with Dr. Seelig is the humor and energy with which every topic is presented in a logical, practical manner. He will talk about how to get started with your chorus on day one and lead you to taking the final bow at your concert. ACDA members will remember Dr. Seelig’s outstanding presentation at the 2007 Summer Kansas ACDA Convention in Topeka.

Instructor: Dr. Seelig holds four degrees including a DMA from the University of North Texas and a Diploma in Lieder and Oratorio from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He was the Artistic Director for the world-renowned Turtle Creek Chorale for 20 years and has served as an adjunct music faculty member at the Meadows School for the Arts at Southern Methodist University since 1996. During his tenure with the chorale, it grew from a membership of 40 to 350, performing as six separate ensembles. Its original budget of $69,000 grew to $1.7 million annually. Under his direction, the Turtle Creek Chorale recorded 36 CD’s. The chorale has been the topic of two PBS documentaries, the first of which was awarded an Emmy in 1994. Dr. Seelig has presented clinics at state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and state conventions of MENC including the 2008 national MENC convention. All-state and honors choirs he has conducted include those in South Dakota, Connecticut, Michigan, New Mexico, Florida and Oregon. He serves as the Chairman of the Choral Advisory Committee for the Dallas Independent School District. His best-selling book, The Perfect Blend, was followed by an instructional DVD, both published by Shawnee Press. The sequel, The Perfect Rehearsal, was released in the spring of 2007.

Workshop III June 25
General Music in Junior and Senior High School: Cross-Curricular Teaching Ideas that Grab Kids!
This workshop is for all teachers who struggle with what to do in junior and senior high general music classes. Using Lincoln Institute for the Arts (New York City) ideas and techniques, attendees will get hands-on experience in taking an art form (music, dance, plays, and poetry) and centering their lesson plans on all aspects of the art form. You will find out how to incorporate language arts, history, and social studies into general music and performance-based classrooms. You’ll choose music literature from the various musical eras based on possibilities for cross-curricular involvement and find out how to use online searches to relate the music to life in those times--what teenagers ate and wore and how families lived. You’ll find out how your students can search for family crests, costumes from various eras, prepare a simple meal, perform rounds and other music. Your teaching colleagues will gain a new appreciation of you and your program through ideas you take back to your school from this workshop.

Instructor: Jo Nell Delacour teaches 7th-grade male chorus and female chorus, 8th grade mixed chorus and select choir, guitar classes and world music drumming at Independence Middle School, Independence, Kansas. She received a BME-Music Therapy degree from the University of Kansas and interned at Napa State Hospital at Napa, CA. She worked as a music therapist for many years, primarily within the California state system. Later, she completed teaching certification in Kansas and a Master of Arts in Teaching at St. Mary’s in Leavenworth. Jo Nell has been actively involved in KMEA, serving as Southeast District President and as an advisor on the state Tri-M Board . This past year she was recognized as the Outstanding Middle Level Music Teacher for the KMEA Southeast District. Married for 32 years, she and her husband, Mike, have a son, Jerad, a laboratory scientist with a bio-tech company in Lee’s Summit, MO.

Workshop IV June 25
Directing the Comprehensive Junior/Senior High School Band Program in Today’s World
This workshop will address the many challenges facing the 21st-century band director. Music programs are being stressed to unprecedented levels because of block scheduling, standardized testing, performance expectations of administrators and community, and competition from sports and students who work after school. A wide range of topics will be discussed including effective use of rehearsal time, programming, motivation, music selection, scheduling, assessment, and group and private lessons. This session will be practical in nature and will deal with the problems that band directors face nearly every day.

Instructor: Dr. Gary D. Ziek has served as Director of Bands and Professor of Trumpet at Emporia State University since 1995. He received his DMA in Wind Conducting from Michigan State University and an MA in Trumpet Performance and a BS in Music Education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. For five years, he taught instrumental music in the Greater Latrobe School District in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He also served as Associate Director of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Marching Band during his MA studies. Dr. Ziek enjoys performing and conducting a wide variety of music, from classical to jazz, and is active as both an arranger and composer. His compositions and arrangements have been performed throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia. His music is published by C. Alan Publications. He has performed and conducted in twenty five states, as well as in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Canada.

Workshop V June 26
Music Literacy, Rehearsal Environment, and Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal
This is a practical workshop for secondary choral music educators seeking to learn more about best practices for developing comprehensive music literacy skills (audiating, reading, notating, and creating music) through solfege, developing and maintaining a positive rehearsal environment that promotes independence and success, and designing strategies for meaningful assessment in the choral rehearsal.

Instructor: Al Holcomb is an active choral clinician, guest conductor, author, and presenter on the topics of successful mentoring, professional development, music assessment, middle level choral music education and aural skill development. He has taught at all levels of general and choral music in Texas and Connecticut and helped design and implement large-scale professional development and assessment projects in Connecticut. An Associate Professor of Music at the University of Central Florida where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, Dr. Holcomb coordinates music education programs, supervises interns, and conducts the Women’s Chorus. Dr. Holcomb is past president of Florida Collegiate Music Educators’ Association and is Collegiate Advisor for FCMENC.

Workshop VI June 27
Choral Rehearsals: the Big Picture, the Detail and Conducting Skill & Effectiveness
Balancing preparation for rehearsals, choosing literature, teaching musical concepts, and conducting with clarity and sensitivity is a never-ending process. In this workshop, you will find fresh ideas to meet your needs and those of high school and junior high singers. Activities for the day include choosing age-appropriate literature that makes a difference in young singers' lives; looking inside the musical score for its core expressivity and teaching potential; developing rehearsal strategies based on an understanding of your students; using friendly, practical score analysis; and finding ease and confidence in your conducting. Participants will sing, conduct, describe, analyze, and strategize from a packet of choral music appropriate for high school and junior high choirs.

Instructor: A Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, David Brunner is well known for his compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting All-State and regional honor choirs throughout the United States at the elementary, middle and high school levels. As an inspired teacher, he is also a popular clinician at choral festivals and educational workshops throughout North America and Europe, including the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, the American Guild of Organists, the Association of British Choral Directors and the Kodaly Societies of Canada and Australia, the International Cathedral Music Festival at Salisbury and Canterbury, the International Honor Band and Choir Festival at the Hague and Brussels, and the Choral Music Experience International Institute for Choral Teacher Education in England, Scotland and Wales. Brunner is an imaginative composer who has received numerous ASCAP awards and in 2000 joined a prestigious group of American composers when he was named Raymond W. Brock Commissioned Composer by the American Choral Directors Association. Dr. Brunner has served on the editorial board of The Choral Journal and is the author of articles in both The Choral Journal and Music Educators Journal. He is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

June 23-24 I. Musical Moments: Relishing Joyful Interactions With Children in the Elementary School (Dr. Alison Reynolds, Temple University)

June 24 II. Choral Vitamin B-12 Shots for Revitalizing Yourself and Your Program
(Dr. Tim Seelig, Southern Methodist University)

June 25 III. General Music in Junior and Senior High School: Cross-Curricular Teaching Ideas that Grab Kids JoNell Delacour, Independence Junior High, Independence KS)

June 25 IV. Directing the Comprehensive Junior/Senior High School Band Program in Today’s World (Dr. Gary Ziek, Emporia State University)

June 26 V. Music Literacy, Rehearsal Environment, and Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal (Dr. Al Holcomb University of Central Florida)

June 27 VI. Choral Rehearsals: the Big Picture, the Details, and Conducting Skill & Effectiveness (Dr. David Brunner, University of Central Florida)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Music educators at all levels: elementary, middle/junior high, high school, college.

WHEN: June 23-27 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Each workshop meets all day.

WHERE: Beach Music Hall, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

FORMAT: Six workshops-Workshop I (June 23-24) counts as one workshop
Attend two days (one credit); Attend four days (two credits)

CREDIT OPTION: One credit hour...Attend 2 full days + 2 written assignments
Two credit hours...Attend 4 full days + 4 written assignments

WORKSHOP FEE: $70 per day (Applies to all participants. Tuition for credit is additional*.)

PER CREDIT COST: $152 (undergrad, in-state) $204 (grad, in-state) $522 (grad, out-of-state)
[Music packets may be purchased from Senseney Music on workshop days.] Teachers from NE, CO, OK, MO, and TX may qualify for NEARR tuition rates. Contact registration office at 620-341-5211 for questions.

REGISTRATION: Pre-registration required. Mail attached form with $70 deposit by June 17. Make checks payable to ESU Music Department. Complete the enrollment process at 8:00-8:30 a.m. before each workshop begins. When enrolling for credit, a separate check for tuition must be made payable to ESU. NOTE: Teachers who are working towards certification or recertification must pay a one-time $40 handling fee in addition to the other fees.

*Tuition is subject to change by Kansas Board of Regents

PRINT THE FOLLOWING FORM AND SEND IT WITH YOUR $70 DEPOSIT (FULLY REFUNDABLE MINUS $10 PROCESSING FEE IF YOU CANCEL BY JUNE 18) TO: 

Great Plains Music Education Workshops

Attention:  Dr. Terry Barham
Music Department Box 4029
Emporia State University
Emporia, KS 66801-5087
620-341-5436 (phone)
620-341-5601 (fax)

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Name____________________________________Address___________________________________

City_________________________________________State___________Zip____________

Phone (Home)__________________________ (Work)___________

Email_________________________________

Circle the workshop (s) you wish to attend:
• Musical Moments: Relishing Joyful Interactions With Children in Elementary Schools 6-23 & 24

• Choral Vitamin B-12 Shots for Revitalizing Yourself and Your Program 6-24

• Junior/Senior High General Music: Cross-Curricular Teaching Ideas that Grab Kids 6-25

• Directing the Comprehensive Junior/Senior High School Band Program in Today’s World 6-25

• Music Literacy, Rehearsal Environment, and Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal 6-26

• Choral Rehearsals: the Big Picture, the Details, and Conducting Skill and Effectiveness 6-27

I will enroll for ________ _______ _______ ______ credits.
1 2 Undergrad Grad

I do not want university credit. I simply want to attend the workshop (s).

Pre-registration Deadline: June 17.

PRINT THE FORM ABOVE AND SEND IT WITH YOUR $70 DEPOSIT (FULLY REFUNDABLE MINUS $10 PROCESSING FEE IF YOU CANCEL BY JUNE 18) TO: 

Great Plains Music Education Workshops

Attention:  Dr. Terry Barham
Music Department Box 4029
Emporia State University
Emporia, KS 66801-5087
620-341-5436 (phone)
620-341-5601 (fax)

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For further information, contact Dr. Terry Barham, Music Department, 620-341-5436 (ph), 620-341-5601 (fax), or tbarham@emporia.edu

Last Updated April 10, 2008