Learners at Work:
Constructing Musical Meaning
Workshop Fee: $140
Learners at Work: Constructing Musical Meaning in the Middle Grades (4-8). Nyssa Brown will show how group problem solving and inquiry-based learning can be applied in the music classroom. Participants will experience sample lessons that encourage student independence and creative thinking skills. Course activities will be practical and immediately applicable in the music classroom. Growing evidence, including brain research, shows students learn and retain best when they construct musical meaning based on investigation. This active approach often takes place in small cooperative groups, but also supports differentiation and the unique growth of the individual learner. The workshop will address how this approach meshes with Kodály pedagogy.
