Come Children, Sing!

Application: Children 0-8
10 Professional Development Hours

[1 hour a week for 10 weeks]

This course addresses the process of music learning in early childhood. Engage in delightful songs and music activities that stimulate music development during the most important years for music learning. Tailor lessons to your own children using the online musical materials, as your early childhood setting serves as the music teaching/learning laboratory for this course. Ongoing pedagogical support is provided throughout the course.

This offering will require one hour of your time each week for ten weeks. Twenty minutes of that hour will be engaged with your children in delightful songs and music activities from the Come Children, Sing! Online Music Curriculum, complete with notation, MP3 files, and suggestions. The twenty minutes for music activities can be broken into two ten-minute segments each week. Another twenty minutes each week will consist of reviewing/preparing the music activities for your children. The final twenty minutes each week will be with accompanying online materials, which might include short postings about music teaching and learning, short audios or videos that you can play directly on your computer, and interactive online activities.

Each week for 10 weeks, one new lesson is posted for you to do with your children. You can use the lessons with any grouping of children ages 0-8, but you must use all 10 lessons with the same group of children, so you can monitor musical growth and development throughout the length of the course. 14 weeks will be allotted for you to complete the 10 lessons, allowing for holidays, travel, or illness. Your online course begins when you register.

Satisfactory completion of the 10 hours of professional development will be determined by interactive materials and website tracking of your involvement in each of the 10 lessons. Upon completion, a telephone or Skype conversation with your instructor will address general progress, interest, and suitability for continuing in the 30 hour program. If you or your instructor decides at that time that you should not continue in the 30 hour program, you can still earn 10 professional development hours for successfully completing the 10 week course, with the option of 1 CEU through Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis.

Project

5 Professional Development Hours

This written project stimulates reflections on music teaching and classroom practices for music learning. You can take 2-4 weeks to complete the assignment. Satisfactory completion of the 5 hours of professional development will be determined by grasp of content of the online course, as demonstrated in this project.