Category: Music Education
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What can babies do
A rough guide for first-time music practitioners / entertainers on what babies (18 months and under) can do physically and some tips and suggestions to making your session plans.
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Finding my voice as an Early Years Music Practitioner
Tips for introverts on managing communication and identifying intent. Personal experience on finding how to be an Early Years Music Practitioner
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Music Practitioner or Entertainer
Being an Early Years Music practitioner or Early Years music Entertainer are two different styles of music enlightening, music delivery.
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Music For the Early Years
All the way back in the 2010s I worked in a nursery school. At first as a nursery practitioner in the baby room and a few months later I was promoted and my title became something like:
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Teach Composition in the Classroom – the right way
Part 3 Composition tasks could be focused around the Elements of Music, especially if you have already discussed about it while working on a song. For example, if the children are learning Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, you can talk about the form of the piece that is in ABA form. Or if you are teaching…
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Teaching Composition in the Classroom
Part 2 If you’re still asking why invest time and effort in musical creativity, the short answer may be, and I’ll elaborate in another article more on the subject: It brings forward needs for learning, like how to read and write notes, how do we indicate loudness and so on… Because now the student has…
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Teach Composition the Right Way
Part 1 Okay, now let’s not think in absolute terms. There are many right ways to approach composition in the classroom of a primary school. As long as you are following the needs of your classroom and your musical beliefs then you are probably doing a good job. My music teaching style follows loosely the…
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Music Composition in the Classroom
Easy activities to get primary school students composing Sound and Music, which is a national charity for new music in the UK, have conducted a survey and discovered that music composition and creativity are generally overlooked in schools in the UK. You can find information about Sound and Music and their initiative here where you…
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Musical Respect
Fear – respect – being polite. Fear of the authority is a physical and mental state no parent wishes his / her children every experience yet it is astonishing how this tool is being used. What is more horrific is how well people respond to intimidation even when it is used as the final resort. Did that…
Rania Chrysostomou 