Posted Sunday February 23 2014 at 9:31 pm
A student-driven event hosted by the Berklee Music Therapy Department on the evening of February 27, 2014 to bring students from different schools together to share their
varied approaches to music and healing
An opportunity to learn from each other - and fueled by pizza!
Thursday evening, February 27, 2014
6:30 - 8:00 pm
The Steve Heck Room
1140 Boylston Street, Boston
Berklee College of Music
RSVP to musictherapy@berklee.edu
Posted Sunday February 09 2014 at 4:13 pm
My aim is to provide students with an exciting, meaningful and memorable learning experience through singing, movement and other musical activities.
I believe that music is the best way to teach certain pre-reading skills such as phonological awareness. Songs also can deepen students' understanding of almost any subject, especially stories and narrative. Music and movement engage multiple parts of the brain and the emotions. To paraphrase educator Bev Bos, "If it hasn't been in the hand, the body and the heart, it can't be in the brain."
What I do
My primary art form is music and songwriting, but I also incorporate drama, storytelling and movement. I mostly work with children aged 3 through first grade, with a focus on reading/language arts, though I also love using music to enrich learning in social studies, math and science. I am very excited to work in inclusion settings.
On any given day in the classroom, you might find me demonstrating a new finger play, singing the days of the week with a focus on the starting letter sounds, playing a rhyming game with a monster puppet, or having the children romp around the classroom as they act out "The Three Little Pigs." I seek to model techniques and offer tools that classroom teachers can use after I'm gone.
I hope my residencies provide an exceptional experience for students that will be one of the highlights of their school life.
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Posted Saturday January 25 2014 at 4:38 pm
My creative endeavors as an art teacher provide a visual arts based approach to general education that helps students build connections to academics and explore materials to encourage their uninhibited imaginations.
I believe students should feel inspiration, passion and discovery in making their art. In the visual arts, students engage in project based learning which involves the acquisition of problem solving skills, which I think is an integral part of student ownership and engagement. As students create projects and share them with a classroom community they gain communication skills, vocabulary and social skills. The result of student projects is art that reflects ideas and concepts as well as technical art abilities.
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