NAfME FREE General Music Virtual Conference

Check out the awesome VIRTUAL conference held by NAfME General Music!! The event is this Saturday, April 26th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Link to register is below, on the @NAfME website, as well as their bio. Also, the schedule is below.

This event is organized by NAfME’s Council for General Music Education in collaboration with organizations representing a variety of well-known general music education approaches. The event features live virtual sessions (sessions are also recorded for additional access after the event) on the Zoom Events platform. Participants will have opportunities to learn from and interact with clinicians/experienced music educators from multiple general music approaches and learn about key issues and trends of interest to general music educators. In addition to sessions of interest to all general music educators, some sessions will focus on 4th – 8th grade music lessons.

This event is free, but registration is required.

https://nafme.org/event/3rd-annual-nafme-general-music-virtual-mini-conference/

NAfME Conference Agenda

11:00 a.m. Welcome
(Stephanie Benischek, Chair, NAfME Council for General Music Education)

11:10 – 11:40 a.m. Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Popular Music
Presenter: Marla Butke

11:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Masterful Musicianship for My Students?
Presenter: Georgia Newlin

12:20 – 12:50 p.m. Creativity with Cultural Integrity Using the World Music Pedagogy Approach
Presenter: William Coppola

12:50 – 1:20 p.m. Culturally Responsive Teaching: Using Circle Drumming to Reach Students from Diverse Backgrounds
Presenter: Amy Spears

12:20 – 12:50 p.m. Music as a Second Language
Presenter: Mary Claxton

12:50 – 1:20 p.m. Popular Music and the Orff-Keetman Approach
Presenter: Martina Vasil

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Dichos, Rimas, y Proverbios, Oh My! Improvising Through Students’ Culture with Language
Presenter: Victor Lozada

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Level Up Your Meter Game: A Dalcroze Lesson for Upper Elementary
Presenter: Lauren Hodgson  

2:40 – 3:10 p.m. Forays into Functional Harmony: An MLT Approach to Harmony for Accompanying, Improvising, and Composing
Presenter: Herbert Marshall

3:10 – 3:40 p.m. Musical Thinking Games and Techniques for the Feier-Drill
Presenter: John Crever

3:40 – 3:50 p.m. Write for the Journal of General Music Education
Presenter: Kendra Kay Friar

3:50 – 4:00 Wrap up/Certificate Information

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