Kodály Certification Level I & II Westminster Choir College
One of the first institutions in the country to offer teacher preparation courses in this approach, continues to provide opportunities for teachers to develop their personal musicianship, along with practical applications for the classroom. The Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE) – endorsed Westminster Choir College Kodály Institute offers instruction by an internationally respected faculty in the areas of solfège and musicianship, methodology and curriculum development, and folk and art music collection, analysis and retrieval. Students have opportunities to explore special topics in music education, such as the application of Kodály’s principles with children’s choirs, the use of technology in collection and retrieval, instrumental application, and studies in the music of selected regional and cultural groups and their music. Additionally, students enhance their own musical skills though daily participation in a choral ensemble, along with daily solfège classes at their own levels. To earn Westminster’s OAKE – endorsed Kodály certificate, participants must complete 240 hours of course work. The certification program requires that students attend four 2-week courses in four summers. Levels I, II, III and IV are taken in sequence, with pedagogical topics and musicianship building upon content and skills explored and developed in each previous level. A certificate of attendance is issued upon satisfactory completion of each level. Students who complete Level IV coursework and requirements are awarded Certification by the Westminster Choir College Kodály Institute, endorsed by the OAKE.

Westminster Choir College of Rider University
Continuing Education
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540-3899
Phone: 609-924-7416
Email: woce@rider.edu