Workshop Talk | 1:00:49 | K-6, Art & Music
Summary
Music is a language that anyone can learn! A Grammar School music curriculum built around actively developing musical language skills using Zoltán Kodály’s pedagogical approach sets the foundation for this to be possible. In this workshop, teachers will experience music lessons as their students would in a K-6 Kodály classroom. It will demonstrate grade-appropriate activities oriented toward raising up joyful, musically literate students who will be able to sing any piece of music they are given. One folk song will be used to model the teaching of three musical concepts across three different grade levels (K, third, and fifth). Students will be able to appreciate great works of music because they will have been given the tools to sing them and actively participate in them.
Speaker
Kara Faraldi teaches Music (K-6) and Theatre (1-12) at the Regents School of Charlottesville in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her bachelor’s degree from Liberty University and her Kodály Music Pedagogy certificate from the Cheneniah Summer Music Institute at New Saint Andrews College. Kara currently oversees the Regents Cantorum, an after-school choir for students in grades 7-12. Additionally, she directs the Regents Theatre program and the annual Rhetoric School play. She is a third-generation arts teacher, following in the footsteps of her parents and late paternal grandfather. Kara enjoys singing with her local choir, reading, playing instruments, and having good, quality conversation with friends and family.
(kfaraldi@regents-school.org)
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