CLINIC SESSION 9

SUNDAY 17 JULY at 12.00pm

9BA: Teaching Band with Excellence: Achieving the Most in Every Lesson
Bruce Pearson (Kjos)
One of the time-tested ways to achieve the most in every lesson from day one is to keep students involved, engaged, and active in the learning process. This session will offer band educators practical approaches and ideas for starting beginners, carefully planning and pacing lessons, addressing the need for differentiated instruction materials, and applying enrichment studies included in the Tradition of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method.

8ST: Improvising and Arranging 101
Karen Kyriakou (AUSTA)
Karen Kyriakou takes string players of all instruments (guitarists welcome) on a mini-tour of music making in the style of the Eastern European Gypsies. Learn a tune by ear and unravel the ‘mysteries’ of reading chord charts with a step-by-step introduction to improvising. This workshop (for all string instruments) provides quick tips (but long lasting skills) on how to introduce improvisation to your private lessons, string classes or ensembles. No previous improvisation skills necessary AT ALL! Promise. And then, participate in an ‘on-the-spot-learn-how-to-arrange-a-piece-of-music-as-per-real-life’ session! Bring your instruments of course!

9CH: Choral Repertoire winners – SA, SSA and SATB
Claire Preston (ANCA)
Come and sing through loads of repertoire that your students will love! 2, 3 & 4 part repertoire that will work for any combination and including lots of great Australian repertoire. This repertoire is suitable for all girls, all boys or mixed ensembles & includes a range of styles and degree of difficulty. Suitable for upper primary, lower secondary, senior & auditioned ensembles. A lot of it has been tested on a lower secondary mixed unbalanced ensemble and it works and the students like it!!

9CO: Jazz in Junior High
Jenny Going
Jazz is the perfect unit. It has everything! Connections with other subjects, cultural studies, new skills, a great way to teach scales and chords, massive creativity – you name it – Jazz has it! This workshop is designed to give classroom teachers an effective unit of work and some teaching ideas that they can use in their classrooms straight away. Improvisation, while part of most curriculums, is not the easiest thing to teach for many classically trained teachers. It is great fun and with a few easy ideas, tips and resources can be every teacher’s best unit for junior high school. Students will have a blast and gain skills, understandings and appreciation for a new style of music while teachers of all backgrounds can be secure in their teaching.

9SM: What Do We Mean By ‘Going On’ ?
Panel presentation
What is life-long music making? How do we set up our students to keep making music after they leave school? What skills do we need to teach in order for music to be made beyond our classroom? A panel of four will tell their stories before opening up the discussion to the floor.

9PR: Marimbas for Primary Schools
Jon Madin (VOSA)
An amazing smorgasbord of ideas for hands-on music making using marimbas and many other Jon Madin’s ingeniously created instruments. You will go away with a wealth of repertoire and activity ideas.

9MT: Excellent Ways to Use Interactive Whiteboards in the Music Classroom
Katie wardrobe (Midnight Music)
Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have become a permanent fixture in many music classrooms, and can be a great tool for making music literacy and performance fun and engaging. They are part-regular whiteboard, part-projector screen and part-multimedia tool all rolled into one. This session will explore ways in which you can enhance your delivery of music content to students by integrating audio, notation, video and animation. Learn how to adapt and rethink your current activities without having to re-write your curriculum. Discover why it’s not about finding a one-size-fits-all software program and why IWBs are not just for showing Youtube videos. During the session we’ll talk about effective (and fun!) ways to use your IWB for teaching music literacy skills, delivering aural training exercises, creating a bank of learning resources that can be used many times across multiple classes, enhancing listening classes, creating soundscapes, and running class ensemble performances.

Clinic Streams
Clinics have been organised into the following streams:

BA Band
ST StringS
CH Choral
CO CONTEMPORARY
SE Secondary
PR Primary
MT TECHNOLOGY

Clinics will have a duration of 60 minutes. The content of each clinic will focus on but not be restricted to the stream heading.