Rachel Grimsby has 15 years experience in elementary music education. She holds a B.M.Ed. from East Carolina University and a M.M.Ed from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. She has obtained certification in all Kodály and Orff levels. Rachel is a teacher trainer for FAME, holding certifications in First Steps and Conversational Solfege Levels One and Two. Rachel is a frequent clinician at the local, state and national levels. Rachel is a member of the National Association of Music Educators, Organization of Kodaly Educators, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, and is a current and founding member of the Feierabend Association of Music Education. Rachel will begin her Ph.D studies at Michigan State University in the fall of 2017.

Rachel is also blessed with an amazing family; her husband Greg, daughter Annabelle and son Benjamin.

Plymouth State University Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 FAME Certificate Class. Conversational Solfege is a pedagogical method created by Dr. John Feierabend that develops musical literacy. Conversational Solfege is for children who have already developed their tuneful, beatful, and artful skills and are ready to develop a deeper understanding of rhythm and melody. Conversational Solfege develops an understanding of music through the use of rhythm syllables and solfege syllables at a conversational level, and then gradually evolves into traditional notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Patterns, folk songs, poetry, rhymes and classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop those musical skills. Ample time will be spent on creating effective lesson plans and opportunities for peer teaching will be made available. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).

University of Central Arkansas Summer Classes

Go to this link for Handouts for Sessions: Go to this link to download handouts for these sessions:http://www.giamusic.com/bios/lillie-feierabend

Lillie Feierabend  

• June 26-30 –
• Multiple Intelligence,
• Vocal Development in Young Children
• Management: The Key to Successful Teaching
• Intentional Movement in the Music Classroom
• Folk Dance Workshops

INTENTIONAL MOVEMENT IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

Movement is an integral part of being musical; worthy of the same explicit and intentional instruction devoted to the literacy component of our curriculum. This lively session shares strategies and techniques to enhance the movement component while involving students in our folk music heritage of songs, dances, and singing games.

VOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN

For young children, tuneful singing is the marriage of tuneful thinking and physiological awareness. The child must be able to first “catch the tune” and then reproduce it in head voice. This lively session shares strategies and techniques that are developmentally appropriate while remaining wonderfully childlike; playful, imaginary and fun.

MANAGEMENT: THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL TEACHING

Music educators spend a great deal of time developing, designing and delivering good lessons. Classroom management should also be the product of thoughtful and sequential design. This session shares strategies that help promote active learning by establishing routines so the focus can be on the musical growth of each student

• Lillie Feierabend is known for her work with young children and instilling a love of music within them. She has been an early childhood and general music educator for over thirty years and a conductor for the Connecticut Children’s Chorus for seventeen. She has twice been honored with her district’s Teacher of the Year Award and in 2008 also received the Outstanding Elementary Music Educator Award from the Connecticut Music Educators Association. Lillie is a frequent clinician at local, state and national conferences, where she presents sessions on music and movement development. She also teaches weeklong workshops, conducts regional honors choirs and is adjunct faculty at the University of Hartford. Lillie Feierabend is a member of CMEA, NAfME, OAKE and ACDA.

Silver Lake College Summer Classes
Conversational Solfege Upper Level Certificate Class / Kodály Certification – Levels III

Course Schedule – Summer 2017: June 26-July 7

All courses take place M-F June 27- July 8 unless otherwise indicated 

NOTE: Classes will be held on Tuesday, July 4th.

8:00-10:00

MUS 544 Kodály Methods III [2]
MUS 522 Solfege II [2]
MUS 501 Folk Song History and Research I [2]
Workshop: Conversational Solfege – Upper Levels [no graduate credit]
10:15-12:15

MUS 543 Kodály Methods II [2]
MUS 521 Solfege I [2]
MUS 644 Choral Literature & Advanced Conducting [2]
Workshop: Conversational Solfege – Lower Levels [no graduate credit]
1:15-2:15

MUS 560 Choral Ensemble [.5]
2:30-4:30

MUS 542 Kodály Methods I [2]
MUS 531 Solfege III [2]
MUS 502 Folk Song History and Research II [2]
Workshop: First Steps in Music [no graduate credit]

Jeffrey A. Rhone holds a Master of Music Education (Early Childhood Emphasis), and a Kodály teaching certificate from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. His independent research includes field and archival collecting at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC, and The Archive of Folk Life Studies in Washington, D.C. Rhone has collaborated with The Yale School of Music Graduate Student Composer Outreach Program and published articles on folklore in The Kodály Envoy. Mr. Rhone taught grade K-5 vocal music for over 15 years in North Haven, CT public schools. Currently, Mr. Rhone teaches courses in Folksong Research in the Kodály certification program at The Hartt School where he is enrolled as a full-time doctoral student in music education.

Silver Lake College  John Feierabend First Steps in Music FAME Certification TWO WEEK Class. 

Silver Lake College Summer Classes
First Steps in Music Certificate Class Kodály Certification – Levels I

Silver Lake College Summer Classes
Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 Certificate Class /Kodály Certification – Levels I I

Silver Lake College Summer Classes
Conversational Solfege Upper Level Certificate Class / Kodály Certification – Levels III

Course Schedule – Summer 2017: June 26-July 7

All courses take place M-F June 27- July 8 unless otherwise indicated

NOTE: Classes will be held on Tuesday, July 4th.

8:00-10:00

MUS 544 Kodály Methods III [2]
MUS 522 Solfege II [2]
MUS 501 Folk Song History and Research I [2]
Workshop: Conversational Solfege – Upper Levels [no graduate credit]
10:15-12:15

MUS 543 Kodály Methods II [2]
MUS 521 Solfege I [2]
MUS 644 Choral Literature & Advanced Conducting [2]
Workshop: Conversational Solfege – Lower Levels [no graduate credit]
1:15-2:15

MUS 560 Choral Ensemble [.5]
2:30-4:30

MUS 542 Kodály Methods I [2]
MUS 531 Solfege III [2]
MUS 502 Folk Song History and Research II [2]
Workshop: First Steps in Music [no graduate credit]

2017 Truth Baptist Church – Connie Greenwood – First Steps in Music FAME Certificate Course

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).

Connie Greenwood has been teaching First Steps in Music at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School Community Division since 2007. She has a B.Mus. from the Hartt School, and has taught in the West Hartford Public Schools. She graduated from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School with a Masters in Music Education degree. Connie also completed her Kodaly levels, Conversational Solfege levels, and received her First Steps in Music certification. She is an officially certified teacher trainer in the First Steps in Music method and is a founding member of the FAME organization. Connie currently teaches First Steps in Music in several preschools in the greater Hartford area as well.

Connie is featured in the documentary Music and Early Childhood, produced by Connecticut Public Television and has been conducting a children’s choir in South Windsor since the fall of 2001. She also served as the University of Hartford’s program director for The Lullaby Project, an outreach to young parents in the community, in conjunction with Carnegie Hall.

Connie has a passion for unleashing creativity and curiosity in children in a playful, musical manner. She has taught voice, guitar, piano, and recorder, and enjoys accompanying herself on folk guitar, autoharp, ukulele, and dulcimer. She loves teaching the First Steps in Music program, not only because of its educational benefits to children, but also because of its authenticity in folk music and how it connects generations.

2017 Look Out Mountain Tennessee Workshop – Missy Strong –

Conversational Soslfege Level 1 & 2 – FAME Certificate Class July 10 – 13th 

Conversational Solfege is a pedagogical method created by Dr. John Feierabend that develops musical literacy. Conversational Solfege is for children who have already developed their tuneful, beatful, and artful skills and are ready to develop a deeper understanding of rhythm and melody. Conversational Solfege develops an understanding of music through the use of rhythm syllables and solfege syllables at a conversational level, and then gradually evolves into traditional notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Patterns, folk songs, poetry, rhymes and classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop those musical skills. Ample time will be spent on creating effective lesson plans and opportunities for peer teaching will be made available. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).

In a career spanning 2 decades, Missy has taught general, choral, and instrumental music at the preschool, elementary, and middle school levels. In 2003, she earned her Master’s in Music Education from Rowan, and in 2012, a Doctorate in Music Ed with an emphasis in early childhood development from Rutgers. In addition to her current job teaching in the Mount Laurel, NJ school district, Missy also serves as the Music Education Consultant and Curriculum Writer for the Rafiki Foundation. Formerly, she was the Senior Research Assistant for Music Together, and was also the Director of Children’s Music Education at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for 10 years. Missy is an Endorsed Teacher Trainer with the Feierabend Association for Music Education and was a Founding Member of the organization, for which she served 2 terms as Vice-President. A frequent clinician, Missy has recorded webinars for the National Association for Music Education and presents workshops and courses at the international, regional, state, and local levels. She has worked as an editor and is currently involved in the writing and editing of 2 music education book projects.

M-R, July 3-6: 5:00 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.

INTENTIONAL MOVEMENT IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

Movement is an integral part of being musical; worthy of the same explicit and intentional instruction devoted to the literacy component of our curriculum. This lively session shares strategies and techniques to enhance the movement component while involving students in our folk music heritage of songs, dances, and singing games.

MANAGEMENT: THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL TEACHING

Music educators spend a great deal of time developing, designing and delivering good lessons. Classroom management should also be the product of thoughtful and sequential design. This session shares strategies that help promote active learning by establishing routines so the focus can be on the musical growth of each student

MUS 580 Music, Management, and Multiple Intelligence [1
Workshop: Music, Management, and Multiple Intelligence [no graduate credit]

Go to this link to download handouts for these sessions:http://www.giamusic.com/bios/lillie-feierabend

Lillie Feierabend is known for her work with young children and instilling a love of music within them. She has been an early childhood and general music educator for over thirty years and a conductor for the Connecticut Children’s Chorus for seventeen. She has twice been honored with her district’s Teacher of the Year Award and in 2008 also received the Outstanding Elementary Music Educator Award from the Connecticut Music Educators Association. Lillie is a frequent clinician at local, state and national conferences, where she presents sessions on music and movement development. She also teaches weeklong workshops, conducts regional honors choirs and is adjunct faculty at the University of Hartford. Lillie Feierabend is a member of CMEA, NAfME, OAKE and ACDA.

First Steps in Music for Early Childhood
Instructor: Rachel Grimsby
Part of The Early Childhood Experience Series

Dates: July 10 – 14, 2017
Time: 12:00 noon -4:30 p.m.
Location: Mason Fairfax Campus, Performing Arts Building

The two Early Childhood Experience Series courses (see previous entry) are designed to be complimentary in their approaches, and while enrollment in both courses is encouraged to maximize benefits for teachers of the very young learner, they may be taken separately.

This course is designed for music teachers and classroom teachers who work with infants to children of seven years of age. During this course, participants will look at research findings and its implications on the development of an early childhood music and movement curriculum. Collecting materials, designing teaching strategies, lesson plans, and yearly curriculum, as well as developing and promoting an early childhood program will be covered. Active participation in both music and movement activities will be the basis for most instruction. This class will result in FAME (Feierabend Association for Music Education) certification as well as inspiration and renewal for your primary teaching needs.

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME). 

Rachel Grimsby has 15 years experience in elementary music education. She holds a B.M.Ed. from East Carolina University and a M.M.Ed from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. She has obtained certification in all Kodály and Orff levels. Rachel is a teacher trainer for FAME, holding certifications in First Steps and Conversational Solfege Levels One and Two. Rachel is a frequent clinician at the local, state and national levels. Rachel is a member of the National Association of Music Educators, Organization of Kodaly Educators, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, and is a current and founding member of the Feierabend Association of Music Education. Rachel will begin her Ph.D studies at Michigan State University in the fall of 2017.

Conversational Solfege Level I and II
Dr. John Feierabend

Conversational Solfege is a pedagogical method that develops musical literacy. Based on modules used to teach conversational foreign languages, Conversational Solfege develops an understanding of music through the use of rhythm syllables and solfege syllables at a conversational level, then gradually evolves into traditional notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Through various techniques, Conversational Solfege allows the acquisition of musical reading and writing, dictation, improvisation, and composition in an intuitive manner. This course is applicable to general music, choral, and instrumental teachers.Participants will be certified by the Feierabend Association for Music Education.

Registration
$980: 3 Graduate Credits or 67.5 PDPs (Professional Development Points)
$750: Participation Only

Schedule*
July 10–14, 2017
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

*Participants must register for the entire week. If you have previously participated in a Conversational Solfege Level I or II workshop at Gordon College, please contact Program Coordinator Kristen Harrington for registration options.

Conversational Solfege Level 1 & 2 FAME Certificate Class

July 10 – July 13 – Mount Laurel, NJ

Contact: docstrong26@gmail.com for details

Conversational Solfege is a pedagogical method created by Dr. John Feierabend that develops musical literacy. Conversational Solfege is for children who have already developed their tuneful, beatful, and artful skills and are ready to develop a deeper understanding of rhythm and melody. Conversational Solfege develops an understanding of music through the use of rhythm syllables and solfege syllables at a conversational level, and then gradually evolves into traditional notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Patterns, folk songs, poetry, rhymes and classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop those musical skills. Ample time will be spent on creating effective lesson plans and opportunities for peer teaching will be made available. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education

In a career spanning 2 decades, Missy has taught general, choral, and instrumental music at the preschool, elementary, and middle school levels. In 2003, she earned her Master’s in Music Education from Rowan, and in 2012, a Doctorate in Music Ed with an emphasis in early childhood development from Rutgers. In addition to her current job teaching in the Mount Laurel, NJ school district, Missy also serves as the Music Education Consultant and Curriculum Writer for the Rafiki Foundation. Formerly, she was the Senior Research Assistant for Music Together, and was also the Director of Children’s Music Education at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for 10 years. Missy is an Endorsed Teacher Trainer with the Feierabend Association for Music Education and was a Founding Member of the organization, for which she served 2 terms as Vice-President. A frequent clinician, Missy has recorded webinars for the National Association for Music Education and presents workshops and courses at the international, regional, state, and local levels. She has worked as an editor and is currently involved in the writing and editing of 2 music education book projects.

First Steps in Music 2017 TM with Betsy Greene
Betsy Greene is offering First Steps in MusicTM from July 17-21, 2017, to be held on the campus of Lyndon State College. CS is available as a workshop only or for 3 graduate credits in collaboration with Castleton University. This course is accredited by FAME (Feierabend Association for Music).

Music education – MUS 710 CFS2 or as general education – EDU 5515 C11

First Steps in MusicTM was created by leading music educator Dr. John Feierabend of the Hartt School of Music. Through active participation in both music and movement activities, participants will learn how to further their young students’ musical growth with joy, imagination, and wonder while preparing them for a lifelong of music learning. This course will include current research findings and the implications of that research on the development of an early childhood music and movement curriculum, collecting materials, designing teaching strategies, lesson plans, and yearly curriculum, as well as developing and promoting an early childhood program. Materials and activities will be presented for children from birth to age seven.

Course instructor is Betsy Greene, a Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME) endorsed Teacher Trainer and highly respected music educator in the Burlington Vermont Schools. This course is fully endorsed by FAME. All participants will receive a First Steps in Music Certificate of Completion from FAME.

Class Dates and Times:  July 17-21, 2017 Monday – Friday 8:00-4:00 PM

Course with three Graduate Credits from Castleton University – $1300Workshop credit only – $900Three credits are offered through Castleton University under a professional development contract with Music-COMP. All fees are paid to Music-COMP.

Contact Music-COMP Executive Director, Sandi MacLeod – 802-879-0065 or sandi@music-comp.org or course instructor Betsy Greene, bgreenefame@gmail.com

July 17 – 21, 2017 Naperville, IL First Steps in Music FAME Certificate Class 

Contact Michael Giuliani at mgiuliani@bethanylcs.org for more details 

The First Steps in Music curriculum is designed to prepare children to become musical in by being Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful. First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers provides developmentally appropriate activities that are well suited for children under three years old with their caregivers. First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities. Created by Dr. John Feierabend, this pedagogical approach contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students, including: Echo Songs, Call-and-Response Songs, Simple Songs, SongTales, Action Songs, Circle Games, Beat Motion Activities, and more. Ample time will be spent on exploring complete lesson plans for a three-year curriculum. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education

Rachel Grimsby has 15 years experience in elementary music education. She holds a B.M.Ed. from East Carolina University and a M.M.Ed from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. She has obtained certification in all Kodály and Orff levels. Rachel is a teacher trainer for FAME, holding certifications in First Steps and Conversational Solfege Levels One and Two. Rachel is a frequent clinician at the local, state and national levels. Rachel is a member of the National Association of Music Educators, Organization of Kodaly Educators, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, and is a current and founding member of the Feierabend Association of Music Education. Rachel will begin her Ph.D studies at Michigan State University in the fall of 2017.

2017 Iowa Choral Directors Summer Symposium July 24 – 28th 

Lillie Feierabend

INTENTIONAL MOVEMENT IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

Movement is an integral part of being musical; worthy of the same explicit and intentional instruction devoted to the literacy component of our curriculum. This lively session shares strategies and techniques to enhance the movement component while involving students in our folk music heritage of songs, dances, and singing games.

VOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN

 For young children, tuneful singing is the marriage of tuneful thinking and physiological awareness. The child must be able to first “catch the tune” and then reproduce it in head voice. This lively session shares strategies and techniques that are developmentally appropriate while remaining wonderfully childlike; playful, imaginary and fun.

MANAGEMENT: THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL TEACHING

 Music educators spend a great deal of time developing, designing and delivering good lessons. Classroom management should also be the product of thoughtful and sequential design. This session shares strategies that help promote active learning by establishing routines so the focus can be on the musical growth of each student

Go to this link to download handouts for these sessions:http://www.giamusic.com/bios/lillie-feierabend

Lillie Feierabend is known for her work with young children and instilling a love of music within them. She has been an early childhood and general music educator for over thirty years and a conductor for the Connecticut Children’s Chorus for seventeen. She has twice been honored with her district’s Teacher of the Year Award and in 2008 also received the Outstanding Elementary Music Educator Award from the Connecticut Music Educators Association. Lillie is a frequent clinician at local, state and national conferences, where she presents sessions on music and movement development. She also teaches weeklong workshops, conducts regional honors choirs and is adjunct faculty at the University of Hartford. Lillie Feierabend is a member of CMEA, NAfME, OAKE and ACDA.