TopMusic Certification Unit One

Unit One focuses on how to teach creatively and encourage student creativity from the first lesson, as well as teaching with a holistic, integrated approach.

If you’re starting to work on your TopMusic Certification, this course is for you!

Unit One focuses on how to teach creatively and encourage student creativity from the first lesson, as well as teaching with a holistic, integrated approach.

Reflect on contemporary approaches to reading, rote learning, listening, and learning through play.

Implement ideas for creating variations, improvisations and compositions with your students, and learn how to teach repertoire pieces through a lens of discovery.

Course outline

  1. Unit One: Pedagogy, Creativity and Integrated Music Teaching
  2. Integrated Music Teaching Part One
  3. Integrated Music Teaching Part Two
  4. Integrated Music Teaching Part Three
  5. Learning Objective 1.1 - Create a Toolbox of Creative Activities
  6. Learning Objective 1.2 - Design an Art-Class Style Composition With an Artifact
  7. Learning Objective 1.3 - Plan Creative Beginner Lessons
  8. Learning Objective 1.4 - Examine How to Teach Pop Without an Arrangement
  9. Learning Objective 2.1 - Connect Emotion, Meaning and Memory in Your Teaching
  10. Learning Objective 2.2 - Analyse Potential Connections and Creative Activities
  11. Learning Objective 2.3 - Connect a Repertoire Piece With a Creative Activity
  12. Learning Objective 2.4 - Plan Extension Activities for Common "First Lesson" Student Performances
  13. Unit One - Conclusion

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TopMusic Certification Unit One

If you’re starting to work on your TopMusic Certification, this course is for you! Unit One focuses on how to teach creatively and encourage student creativity from the first lesson, as well as teaching with a holistic, integrated approach. Reflect on contemporary approaches to reading, rote learning, listening, and learning through play. Implement ideas for creating variations, improvisations and compositions with your students, and learn how to teach repertoire pieces through a lens of discovery.  

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It’s time to feel recognized and valued as the professional educator that you are. Join us in the TopMusic Certification Program, and let’s transform your music teaching career together. Say goodbye to overwhelm, stress, and self-doubt, and say hello to a fulfilling and rewarding path in music education.  

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