WORKSHOP SESSION 6 (Saturday 2:45-4:00pm) Indigenous Cultural Awareness/Education A traditional Ojibway singer for over 25 years, Eddy will speak about the importance of songs and the drum for Indigenous people in North America. He will tell the traditional stories behind the music as well as the musical structure and traditional formulas of the music. Attendees will learn and sing a song. Clinician: Eddy Robinson Focus: All, FNMI Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Fallsview Theatre Oh! Canada Rocks! Come travel across Canada with us as we experience the music of this beautiful country! Using picture books, songs, movement activities, and instruments, we will go through many traditional folk songs, current songs, artists, and traditions. From Pow Wows to barn dances, sea shanties to prairie jigs, come prepared to sing, move and play! Lists of recommended resources and assessment tools will be provided. Clinicians: Niki Kazemzadeh & Jill Pettifer Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Peller Estates Ballroom A More with Music Assessment and Music Centres As elementary music teachers, we will share lots of ways we give feedback in the music classroom, after performances and even at home! This hands-on workshop will explore the value of music centres and other simple strategies that you can implement right away. Come sing, play, and explore new ideas that make assessment easy and meaningful. Clinicians: Marilyn Lee, Jennifer Luxor-Begin, Angie Reinchenbach Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Peller Estates Ballroom B Something from Nothing: Make Your ELementary Program Shine Tomorrow Have you ever found yourself teaching music with very few instruments or resources? Are you a classroom teacher tasked with teaching your own music? It can be a real challenge to try to find ways to teach a well-rounded music program without much to work with. In this session, find ways to bring variety to your program through performance, composition and listening activities that you can do tomorrow with what you have on hand already. Clinician: Kristen Morrison Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Peller Estates Ballroom D
Echoes of the Past Resonating in the 21st Century: Kodály Reimaged This session will explore the essential tenets of the Kodály philosophy as reimagined for 21st century Ontario elementary schools. Practical and engaging applications grounded in the language of The Ontario Curriculum: The Arts and Growing Success will be shared. Clinician: Kim Eyre Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, 42/72 Lounge Empowering At-risk Youth Through Music This workshop will introduce music making possibilities for at-risk youth such as spontaneous improvisation, songwriting, and sound production developed from a pilot project in a community music school in Toronto, examining the potential of music making on the development of musical identity and increased youth engagement. Clinicians: Bina John & Nasim Niknafs Focus: All Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Room 201/202 Sponsor: University of Toronto Creating Arrangements and Compositions in Orchestra and Band Remember the music theory you took in university? Ever wonder what to do with it? Learn how to take the mystery of music making. In this session, go beyond teaching by rote and explore ways to allow more creativity and self-expression in a large group setting. Discover how to create arrangements. Learn how to extend pieces to highlight groups and individuals. Feel confident composing variations and using traditional and nontraditional notation and sounds. Have students create their own original compositions or use music in the public domain. Understand how to use improvisation as a tool for assessment. Create. Perform. Respond. In the supportive, encouraging atmosphere of the session, attendees will participate in improvisation, from getting started to working with artful compositions. Clinician: James Karas Focus: Composition Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Room 203 From Noodling to Composition: Maximizing tendencies inherent in Guitar Culture Guitarists love to noodle, play, a process that is rich in itself, and a significant aspect of guitar culture/ learning that can bear tremendous fruit when teachers can successfully guide students from noodling towards complimentary creative outcomes such as structured soloing and spontaneously generated composition. Hands on! Bring guitars if possible. Clinician: Brian Katz Focus: Guitar Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Room 204
Putting Down the Baton: Inquiry- and Problem Solving-based Learning in the Music Classroom This workshop is for people who want to explore using an inquiry approach in the elementary music classroom. Participants will leave the session feeling more confident with this approach and aware of its benefits for children learning at different levels in the music classroom. Clinician: Christine Noonan Focus: Junior/Intermediate Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Room 205 Project Ideas for Split or Combined Classes Do you teach 2-, 3- or 4-grade splits? Struggle with ways to provide interesting projects for your students with so many grades and abilities in one room? This workshop will feature project ideas and strategies for composition, music and media literacy, performance and research. Sharing of ideas is encouraged! Clinician: Liz Parker-Cook Focus: Secondary Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Room 206 Top Ten Tips for Your Band Program Help! I teach instrumental music, but I m drowning! How to organize your program for success and sanity! A comprehensive look at making your programs run efficiently. Clinicians: Jill Morrison & R. David Hipperson Focus: Band Location: Scotiabank Convention Centre, Room 207/208 Strong Relationships Build Strong Programs Building a strong and vibrant music program that withstands the test of time is a career goal of every young music educator. This session will focus on the myriad of individuals and groups both within and outside the school that can support teachers and help their programs to prosper. Clinician: Charlene Ryan Focus: All Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Pennisula Room Encouraging Musicality Children are instinctively musical, possessing the sensitivity necessary to deliver powerful performances. This workshop explores how choir directors can help children create deeper connections to music. Join the Chorus Niagara Children s Choir and Artistic Director Amanda Nelli as they dive into a new piece of music. Clinician: Amanda Nelli Focus: Choral Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Hennepin Room
Teach Your Students to Compose Themselves! Robert Sheldon shares his insight and experience in working with young composers. Teachers will learn how to get students started in the process of writing music, scoring, orchestration, and ways to inspire creativity and expression. Clinician: Robert Sheldon Focus: Composition Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Oakes Ballroom Sponsor: Alfred Music Saltwater Joys Sounds of the Sea Using the book, Saltwater Joys, by Wayne Chaulk, participants will journey to Newfoundland to celebrate the simple pleasures of outport life. Singing with spoons in hand, dancing with the ugly stick, while adding simple Orff instrumentation to a folksong, will allow delegates to capture the joys of Newfoundland. Come smell the salty ocean air and see the fog rolling in. Clinicians: Gena Norbury & Lesley Pontarini Focus: Junior/Intermediate Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Salon A Room Conversation Nook In many schools, there is only ONE music educator so it is difficult to find others to problem solve, share and develop ideas by receiving input. This area will provide delegates an opportunity to drop in and have some conversations and sharing of expertise in a very informally structure environment. Each session will be guaranteed to have a few educators present to share in the conversations. It s also a great way to learn more and also meet new people. Focus: Intermediate/Senior Secondary Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Salon B Room Turning STEM into STEAM by adding Arts & Music with Extreme Orchestra Makeover! Integrate technology to increase creativity and strengthen your string program using real world solutions: plug ipods, smartphones, and computers directly into student learning for a transformative experience. Learn playback and recording techniques giving students ultimate control, training their ears and allowing them to critique their own playing and become self-motivated. Clinician: Mark Wood Focus: Strings Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Ontario Room Sponsor: Counterpoint Musical Services
Financial Planning for the Band Director This presentation gives an overview on how to correlate the size or growth of a program to the resources needed. Examples of how budgets can be created will be shared. It is an interactive discussion to help assist directors in their day to day management of instrumental music programs. Clinician: Michael Kamphuis Focus: Band Location: Marriott on the Falls Hotel, Niagara Room Sponsor: Conn-Selmer, Inc.