Music-Ade, LLC offers both First Steps in Music© and Conversational Solfege™️ Levels 1&2 teacher curriculum certification courses endorsed by the Feierabend Association for Music Education.
My classes are a mix of ages and backgrounds, and I welcome all interested in music literacy and learning about the Feierabend approach to building musically literate communities.
Teacher curriculum certification courses run a minimum of 24 hours. During the course, there will be time for learning, teacher practice, coaching, and questions. During the summer months, Music-Ade hosts several regional certification courses. During the school year, districts offer a certification course to their teachers, either in three or four consecutive days or spread out over the year to coincide with staff development days. Check out the 7-steps to bringing a certification program to your district.
Credit
Optional graduate credits or CEUs available through Seattle Pacific University while earning 24-hour FAME certificate. Read more…
Where to Begin?
John Feierabend recommends starting with First Steps in Music to begin growing Tuneful, Beatful and Artful skills in students before teaching them to read music. Many teachers are drawn to Conversational Solfege first, interested in the impact that long-term literacy instruction can have on a program. If a teacher hasn’t already taken FSM before CS, they realize during CS that they wish they had because their students’ ears would be ready for reading with an ear-first approach.
This course breaks open the teacher manual to optimize a child’s natural Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful abilities.
Significant class time will be spent…
- hearing, experiencing and discussing the overview, demonstrations, and pedagogical considerations of each step.
- Surveying the teacher manual and all of the activities, directions, performance indicators, and lesson plans.
- Learning the techniques and activities of each of the eight steps to keep musical growth.
- Exploring the many supplemental resources and current pedagogy.
- Practicing leading others in the techniques.
- Singing, dancing and moving expressively together.
Successful participants receive a certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).
My goal in offering these classes is to make them easily accessible to music teachers everywhere because I know how career changing Feierabend training can be.
This course takes a deep dive into the teacher’s manual and the framework for teaching music reading with an “ear-first” approach.
Significant class time in Conversational Solfege will be spent…
- Learning about each of the twelve steps by listening to an overview, experiencing demonstrations, and discussing pedagogical considerations.
- Using the teacher’s manual to plan measurable learning units.
- Picking repertoire that best achieves objectives.
- Practice teaching techniques that intensify musical thinking at every step.
- Explore techniques to assess student achievement quickly.
- Singing, Dancing and Moving Expressively to Great Music.
- Successful participants receive a certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).
Download a printable PDF Info Sheet on Feierabend philosophy, the Curricula and the instructor.
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The best part is seeing the light bulbs go on in participants’ eyes when it all gels together in their imaginations and they can’t wait to get back to their classrooms.
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Optional graduate credits (2) or CEUs available through Seattle Pacific University while earning 24-hour FAME certificate. Read more…
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My favorite parts of the class include…
- the singing and dancing,
- listening to participants imagine the curriculum in their program,
- listening to the room of experienced teachers problem-solve a variety of concerns for classmates as questions arise, and
- seeing the light bulbs go on in participants’ eyes when it all gels together in their imaginations and they can’t wait to get back to their classrooms. I get goosebumps every time I see that light bulb! 😊
Course Descriptions
Created by Dr. John Feierabend, from his decades of research, this pedagogical approach is contained in two books and eight CD’s, packed with repertoire, activities and directions, performance indicators, assessment tracking, and three years worth of example lesson plans for infants/toddlers or preschool through elementary.
Significant class time will be spent on learning the techniques and activities necessary to get started while exploring the rich repertoire of Pitch Exploration activities, Fragment Songs, Simple Songs, Song Tales, Expressive Creative Movement, Circle Games, Action Songs, Beat Motion activities and more.
Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME). Graduate credits (2) are available with additional work as are CEUs (20 clock hours). Click here for more information.
This course will show how to use the teacher’s manual to introduce students to music literacy by an “ear-first” approach, similar to how we all learned a language as a child. Music teachers will learn how to utilize Feierabend’s 12 steps to build student’s conversationally improvised musical ideas into original written compositions.
Significant class time will be spent learning about each of the twelve steps, how to use the teacher’s manual to plan measurable learning units, how to pick repertoire and practice techniques to create lessons that intensify musical thinking for every student, and techniques to quickly assess student achievement.
Participants who successfully complete this course will receive an official certificate of completion from the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME). Graduate credits (2) are available with additional work as are CEUs (20 clock hours). Click here for more information.
Download a printable PDF Information Sheet on the Feierabend philosophy, curriculum, and instructor.
🔖 Feierabend Certification Course Info Sheet 🔖
John Feierabend’s 2018 reissued book Conversational Solfege Level 3 (a.k.a. “Upper Levels” or just “CSUL”), is the same Ear-First Approach to thinking musical thoughts that sets Conversational Solfege apart, and it’s geared towards MS/HS performing ensembles. CSUL picks up the sequence where Level 2 left off, guiding students to think, read and write in most keys, meters, and regions of the staff. CSUL also offers a curriculum to teach musicians a Conversational knowledge of major and minor diatonic harmony, and its application to teaching improvisation and composition with performing ensemble classroom. Building on the conversational skill of “discovering the baseline” to create a harmony, introduced in Lev. 2, this curriculum leads students to use a bass line to inform tonal analysis to reveal the corresponding diatonic chord tones, and the many melodic counter-puntal possibilities that weave harmony together. Come prepared to sing. This course is applicable to upper elementary general music, as well as middle school and high school choral, and instrumental teachers.
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