Changemakers: Professional Development for Music Educators
Empower your students to take ownership of their learning with culturally responsive teaching. These interactive workshops offer you insights, skills, and resources to transform your classroom, engaging students through cross-cultural exchange that centers their lived experience. Spend 40-minutes with us on Wednesday evenings and learn new ways to connect with your students that you can put into practice immediately.
Jonathan Rappaport | Respecting the Student’s Musical Mother Tongue
Wednesday, March 26 (8:00pm EST)
A basic tenant of the Kodály approach is that students should initially be learning authentic folk music of their own cultural backgrounds, what Kodály referred to as the student’s “musical mother tongue.” This validates each student’s musical heritage while teaching other students from varied cultural heritages respect and understanding of one another. Once a teacher finds good material, we will examine what we do with a piece of music, as well as the process for determining a variety of pedagogical, cultural, and social uses of each song. Through this song analysis, we will unpack basic philosophical underpinnings of the Kodály Concept.
