Workshops
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South Region
Aldine
Open to all music teachers for a $10 workshop fee.
Location: Hill Intermediate School
2625 West Mount Houston
Houston, TX 77038
Time: 8:30-11:30
Dates:
October 25 – more information
University of Houston
Saturday, January 24
“Choral Techniques using Kodaly Strategies”
Demonstration 6th grade choir
NORTH TEXAS
KODALY EDUCATORS OF TEXAS
PROUDLY PRESENTS
2008-2009
Workshop Series
Events happening later this year….
Chapter Sharing
Saturday, January 24
8-3 PM
Vega Elementary
2511 Cattleman Drive
McKinney, TX 75071
$15 Fee for Participants
Our talented chapter members come from many different backgrounds and experiences that enrich us all. Lunch will be provided on this day of camaraderie and great fun! If you would like to present a 15-20 minute session at our first-ever sharing workshop, please contact Tina Arenas at tarenas@dentonisd.org. You will also find a presenters session form.
Nyssa Brown
Saturday, March 7
1-4 PM
Sockwell Center for Professional Development
6301 Chapel Hill Blvd
Plano, Texas 75093
$20 Early bird for OAKE Member/$25 for Non-Member (postmarked before or on March 2)
$25 for OAKE Member/$30 for Non-Member (Day of Workshop)
$10 for Students
Registration coming soon
BUILDING CONCEPTS AND SKILLS THROUGH GROUP WORK IN THE 4-8 MUSIC CLASSROOM
Do your 4th-8th grade students long for more independence? Have you ever wondered how to allow them independence while being assured that they are still learning? This workshop is an experiential, hands-on, practical planning session aimed teachers in grades 4-8 who wish to promote musical learning and independence in their music classrooms. Grounded in the thinking of Zoltán Kodály and inspired by Jackie Wiggins’ book Teaching for Musical Understanding, we experience musically-focused activities that encourage students’ musical independence while providing structure for musical decision making. Teachers will leave the workshop with lesson ideas and activities for immediate use in their classroom, as well as longer-range planning ideas.
Nyssa Maria Brown serves as Music Education Coordinator for Minnesota’s Perpich Center for Arts Education whose mission is to improve K–12 education for all Minnesota students and educators through innovative programs and partnerships centered in the arts. Ms. Brown taught elementary school vocal and general music at Park Spanish Immersion School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota from 1998-2007. In 2006, Nyssa was chosen by Education Minnesota, a state affiliate of NEA and AFT, to represent Minnesota at the national level in NEA’s Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. Ms. Brown was one of ten finalists for 2004 Minnesota Teacher of the Year and received a prestigious Milken Educator Award in 2004 from the Milken Family Foundation. Nyssa is a faculty member of the Kodály Levels Courses at Indiana University and James Madison University. She has spent time in Namibia and South Africa teaching and learning music and has participated in Eastman School of Music's Umculo: The Kimberley Project. She also studied in Hungary at the Kodály Institute's summer seminar. Nyssa released her first CD in October, 2000, "Packwood or Paradise." Ms. Brown graduated from the Hartt School of Music and Hartford College for Women in 1998 with a BMus in Education and a BArts in Women's Studies. Her Kodály certification was earned at Brigham Young University in 2001.
TMEA REGIONS 8, 18, 26 and Central Texas Kodály Educators of Texas
“SOWING SEEDS THROUGH SONG”
With Susan Brumfield
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008
9 a.m.—4 p.m.
Round Rock ISD PAC
5800 McNeil Drive
Austin, TX 78729
(512) 464-6580
Registration