This interactive session invites teachers to experience music learning through movement, singing, play, and discovery using Dr. John Feierabend’s First Steps in Music® approach. Designed for educators working with children ages 3–9, the clinician will demonstrate how tunefulness, beatfulness, and artfulness grow through joyful, structured musical experiences that transform imitation into independence.
Participants will move, sing, explore, improvise, and reflect while experiencing elements of the First Steps in Music® workout, including pitch exploration, song fragments, solo singing, arioso improvisation, beat motions, and expressive movement. The session highlights strategies that create multiple access points for multilingual learners and students with varied musical backgrounds and readiness levels.
Participants will leave with ready-to-use activities, repertoire ideas, lesson structures, and practical tools adaptable to diverse early childhood and elementary music settings.
Target Audience
Elementary, Lower Elementary
Additional Notes
Clinician Info
John Crever
Music-ade, LLC
John Crever is a music educator, clinician, and FAME-endorsed teacher trainer who serves the FAME Board of Directors, coordinating media and supporting the Teacher Trainer Committee. Endorsed to teach all three Feierabend certification courses, he developed FAME’s virtual certification courses and continues to expand access through innovative “pop-up” offerings in all places west of the Mississippi. In 2025, he received a FAME Award for exemplary service, honoring his dedication and leadership. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches high school choir and continues inspiring music educators worldwide.