Elementary And Early Childhood Sessions At NJMEA! Amy Burns Far Hills Country Day School aburns@fhcds.org
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s an NJ elementary and early childhood music educator, I am so excited to see the featured presenters, and the numerous local elementary and early childhood music educators, listed to present at NJMEA this year. As you might have seen on the cover and in the pages of the October issue of Tempo, Denise Gagne, The Amidons, and Dr. John Feierabend are all featured presenters at NJMEA this year. Denise is the author of Musicplay, which is a curriculum for grades preschool through six that in addition to the written materials, hosts a terrific online supplemental program that has numerous fieldtested resources. The Amidons are contributors of the popular New England Dancing Masters Series, as well as numerous music books and recordings. Dr. Feierabend is the author of the First Steps in Music series and Conversational Solfege, both are research-based, field-tested approaches to helping students to become tuneful, beatful, artful, as well as teaching students to decode, read, and create music. In addition to these wonderful featured presenters, there are numerous sessions that elementary and early childhood music educators can attend to learn something new or rejuvenate their teaching. The list of
sessions is found on NJMEA’s website (https://njmea.org/wp-content/ uploads/sites/3/2019/11/SessionsPerformances.pdf ). I read through the descriptions and did my best to categorize them for early childhood music educators, elementary general music educators, and elementary choral educators. The categories are as follows: • John Feierabend’s Sessions • Denise Gagne’s Sessions • Sessions Focused on Movement/ Dance in Elementary and Early Childhood Music • Sessions focused on Elementary Choral Reading and Elementary Choirs • Sessions Focused on Elementary Recorder • Sessions Focused on Special Learners in Elementary Music: • Sessions Focused on Early Childhood and Preschool: • Sessions Focused on Elementary Songs and Games • Sessions Focused on Music Literacy, Improvisation, and Composition • Orff Schulwerk Sessions for Younger to Older Elementary Grades • Little Kids Rock Sessions • Music Technology Integration in the Elementary Music Classroom
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• Mindfulness/SEL/The Whole Musician in Elementary Music • Jazz and Elementary Music • Global Connections and Elementary Music • Cross-Curricular Connections in Elementary Music: • Urban Elementary Music Education: • Other Sessions Featuring Elementary Music Since the list of sessions can change before the conference, I have created this link found at http://bit. ly/34KTmTZ that have all of the current titles listed beneath the categories, so that I can make necessary changes as they occur. In addition, if you are a presenter and I have mistakenly left your session off this categorized list, please contact me at amywillisburns@gmail.com and I will update the list. It will be a very exciting conference for NJ early childhood and elementary music educators!
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JANUARY 2020
