Want to help your students create and improvise vocally but not sure how to start? This session is for you! The presenter will share activities and strategies for helping elementary students develop the tonal and rhythmic “vocabulary” and musical independence needed in order to create and improvise vocally. These playful and engaging activities based on Gordon’s Music Learning Theory will help build students’ musical skills and confidence and get them on their way to vocally improvising in no time!
Target Audience
Elementary General Music Teachers
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Clinician Info
Heather N. Shouldice
GIA Publications
Heather Nelson Shouldice is Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI). She is author of the book Weaving It All Together: A Practical Guide to Applying Gordon’s Music Learning Theory in the Elementary General Music Program and co-author of Q&A for MLT: General Music Perspectives on Music Learning Theory, both of which are published by GIA Publications. She also hosts and produces an MLT podcast called Everyday Musicality and is a professional development faculty member for the Gordon Institute for Music Learning.