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TEACHER
TRAINING
Here are the 2007 teacher
training courses. Course contents will be updated shortly for 2008
The Pittsburgh Jazz and Fiddling Camp
will present the world’s first comprehensive teacher training to
teachers interested in developing/improving their non-classical
teaching skills.
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Teachers may elect to take any one,
two, or all three of these courses
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Teachers will receive a certificate of
accomplishment in each course specifying the material covered.
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Graduate and continuing ed. credits are
available for teachers who participate in these sessions. For
more information:
info@pittsburghjazzandfiddle.org
Course offerings will include:
Developing a Multi-Cultural
Curriculum
taught by Julie Lyonn Lieberman
(3 hours each day)
This comprehensive five-day course will be
coordinated with the text, “Alternative Strings: The New Curriculum”
and provide educators with the tools they need to include
alternative string styles in their classroom curriculum.
Topics will include:
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Getting Started:
Choosing Styles for your Students, Creating a Lesson Plan
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Choosing Repertoire: American, World
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Essential Left- and Right-Hand
Techniques
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Rhythm: Fundamental Skills and Grooves
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Improvisation: Structural and Harmonic
Building Blocks that draw on the musical imagination of the
world
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Audio
Support and Equipment
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Amplification:
nuts and bolts
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Community Support How to generate it
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Getting the most out of an Alternative
Style Guest Clinician
Jazz Teacher Training
taught by Martin Norgaard
(1 1/2 hours each day)
Improvisation is the ideal
activity for introducing creative thinking into the music
performance classroom. Norgaard will cover improvisation
exercises designed for elementary through high-school string
students. Through careful sequencing Norgaard has developed a
method that will have both you and your students improvising
with confidence. The course is based on Norgaard’s book series
Jazz Wizard Junior. For more information see
www.jazzfiddlewizard.com
Fiddling
Teacher Training
taught by Janet Farrar-Royce
(1 1/2 hours each day)
Janet Farrar-Royce
brings a wealth of experience gained from years of teaching
fiddling in her own public school classrooms. She’ll share tunes,
ideas, fiddling expertise, lesson plans, research and teaching
techniques from her own teaching experiences and from her books
which include "Fiddling Fingers" and "The American Fiddle
Method"
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Why teach
fiddling and how to incorporate it into your curriculum (studio
or classroom)
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Teaching
“The Fiddler’s Way” from Lesson #1!
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Teaching
improvisation in little steps that can be incorporated into what
you are already doing.
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Incorporating fiddling into the existing string curriculum in a
manner that meets the National Standards, including tools for
monitoring and assessment.
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Finding
and choosing tunes that include musical lessons and historical
value.
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Learn
tunes, left and right hand fiddling techniques and back-up and
harmony methods for from a wide range of American fiddling
traditions, including Scottish, Irish, English, New England,
Cape Breton, Franco-American, Quebecois, Texas, Southern and
Old-Timey
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Adapting
fiddle tunes for viola, ’cello & bass.
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Including
Special Education students in your fiddling lessons and clubs.
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Teaching
your students how to write a simple bass line.
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Teaching
your students how to create their own string band arrangements
for performance.
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Connecting with the families of your students and your community
with a Fiddle Club
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Running a
dance that everyone can enjoy (even you!)
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Reasonable ways to continue your own education in Alternative
Styles performing, especially as it relates to fiddling
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