Sorry for the long delay in posting - I have been on "Planet Music", otherwise known as the Autumn KMEIA NSW teacher training course. This was a week of intensive training in musicianship, conducting and teaching methods. It was extremely demanding but greatly worthwhile and wonderful. The teachers are always brilliant and I highly recommend the course for any music teachers in early childhood or primary school settings.
I am already accredited to teach young children, but I'm back this year to see what happens in early primary school - to see "where we're headed" with all the early childhood work.
Highlights of the course this time included:
- Meeting up with friends from all over the place who come together to study - this is the final year for many of us
- The opportunity to try out songs, games and dances for ourselves in the practicum classes
- Choir at the end of each day
- Ensemble work, and the notorious "sing and plays"
- Composing our own canons in musicianship
- A lecture from the beautiful Ms Jenone Nagy ("Insie") from the National Association of Hungarian Kindergarten Teachers.
