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Session: 1 Presenter: Dave Perry Vocal Techniques Working with high school voices, age appropriate ranges, being a voice teacher and music educator in the classroom. Length: 1 hour Session: 2 Presenter: Dave Perry Adding Instruments Including instruments in rehearsal and performance; from individual instruments to ensembles to full band and orchestra Length: 1 hour Session: 3 Presenter: Dave Perry Care and Feeding of the Church Youth Choir This session is drawn from twenty years experience as a youth choir director. It will include information on recruitment, voice placement, literature, fund raising, travel, and other ideas to help your volunteer church youth choirs succeed. Length: 1 hour Session: 4 Presenter: Dave Perry Starting and Building a High School Men’s Chorus Recruiting, vocal placement, warm-ups, literature, teaching literacy, performance. Length: 1-2 hours Session: 5 Presenter: Dave Perry Putting on a Musical at Your High School Choosing the right musical for the right situation; auditions; rehearsal scheduling; costumes; sets; teaching choreography; working with the pit orchestra; balancing the sound. Length: 1-2 hours Session: 6 Presenter: Dave Perry Ideas for a High School Choral Music Educator Selecting the type of choirs; auditions; daily routine (warm-ups for vocal growth and sight reading/dictation); choosing the music; choosing the concerts; holiday concerts and dinners; community concerts; performing a major work; solo and ensemble, regional/all-state auditions, chorus festivals and competitions; fund-raising, communication, tours, grading and many other ideas to help the year a success. Length: 1-2 hours Session: 7 Presenter: Dave Perry Communication is Vital Communicating with students, parents, administrators and the public: ideas, techniques and guidelines that work. Length: 1 hour Session: 8 Presenter: Dave Perry Chorus materials What criteria should be used in choosing choral literature for high school choirs? How to choose music that makes your choir sound great. (reading session of age-appropriate materials) Length: 1-2 hours Session: 9 Presenter: Dave Perry Music Literacy Make everyday a learning day for the class. Techniques on teaching music literacy through daily sight singing, dictation and the music that you rehearse. Length: 1-2 hours Session: 10 Presenter: Dave Perry Steps to a Successful Concert Ideas for planning your concert season and programming each performance. Also, how to grow and educate your audience. Length: 1 hour Session: 1 Presenter: Jean Perry Chorus Materials What criteria should be used in choosing choral literature for elementary/middle school choirs? How to choose music that makes your choir sound great. (reading session of age-appropriate materials) Length: 1-2 hours Session: 2 Presenter: Jean Perry Literature for the General Music Classroom Useful for grades K - 3. Several lessons will be presented using books that can be found in most school libraries. It is best to have some Orff instruments & small percussion instruments for this session. Length: 1 hour Session: 3 Presenter: Jean Perry Math for the General Music Classroom Ideas to relate music with math skills are included in this session. It would be best to have some Orff instruments & small percussion instruments for this session. Length: 1 hour Session: 4 Presenter: Jean Perry Movement in the General Music Classroom All of us up and moving for this session, no chairs. Orff instruments & small percussion instruments will be needed . Water bottles for the participants are recommended. Length: 1-2 hours Session: 5 Presenter: Jean Perry Musicals for the Elementary Student All the info to get going on presenting a musical at school. Whether you are an old stage hand or have never directed a musical before, you should find something new in this session. Guidance for choosing materials will be presented also. Possible previewing musicals from multiple publishers. Length: 1-2 hours Session: 6 Presenter: Jean Perry Round Table Discussion I will monitor open discussion on topics chosen by the teachers present dealing with the general music classroom/ elementary chorus. Possible solutions to various problems will be addressed. Length: 1 hour Session: 7 Presenter: Jean Perry Bulletin Boards for the Music Teacher This is an opportunity to explore some new ideas for those ugly brown boards that greet us each fall. No creativity required; just an adventurous mind. Twenty-five years of teaching music and well over a hundred boards later, Jean Perry hopes you will come away with more than a few good ideas for the walls of your classroom. Length: 1 hour Session: 8 Presenter: Jean Perry Teach Them To Read: Games for the General Music Classroom Teaching the basics for a strong foundation of music literacy is the bottom line of this session. Materials will be presented from “Games That Teach: Rhythm Reading Skills” and "Musical Games for the Musically Minded". Length: 1 hour Session: 9 Presenter: Jean Perry Communication is Vital Communicating with students, parents, administrators and the public: ideas, techniques and guidelines that work. Length: 1 hour Session: 10 Presenter: Jean Perry I’ve got those “colored tubes”. Now what do I do with them? Boomwhackers...the latest fad in music education....how to use them to maximize the amount of music education in your classroom. For this session, there needs to be a minimum of five sets of diatonic boomwhackers and two sets of boomwhacker octavator caps. Length: 1 hour Session: 11 Presenter: Jean Perry Vocal Techniques for General Music The general music teacher wears many hats. One of these which we sometimes ignore is our "voice teacher" hat. Jean Perry will share some of her ideas on helping children learn how to sing correctly during their general music class period(can use a dozen students for demonstration purposes). Length: 1 hour Session: 12 Presenter: Jean Perry Care and Feeding of the Church Youth Choir This session is drawn from twenty years experience as a youth choir director. It will include information on recruitment, voice placement, literature, fund raising, travel, and other ideas to help your volunteer church youth choirs succeed. Length: 1 hour
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