First Steps in Music
Songs, Rhymes, Games, and More!
First Steps Music Certification Course
The Rowan Community Music School presents the First Steps Music Certification Course! This course provides a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how Dr. Feierabend's First Steps in Music; a curriculum rich in children's songs, rhymes, games, and dances; can develop musical intelligence, singing, and movement skills, and expressive sensitivities. A model of parents and children playing together in the years from birth to 3 will be presented as well as a curriculum for 3 to 8-year-old children in classroom settings. Instruction will be delivered live, online in a virtual format, and will not be recorded. 24 Professional Development hours are available. The course costs $445, but undergraduate full-time students can take the course for $40. The course will take place from 9:00am to 4:00pm on Saturdays, October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.
- Limited spaces are available!
- The course will be taught by Dr. Missy Strong whose biography can be found at go.rowan.edu/strong
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First Steps Music Certification Course: Fall 2021
Description: This course provides a bridge from research to practice by demonstrating how Dr. Feierabend's First Steps in Music, a curriculum rich in children's songs, rhymes, games, and dances can develop musical intelligence, singing and movement skills and expressive sensitivities. A model of parents and children playing together in the years from birth to 3 will be presented as well as a curriculum for 3 to 8 year old children in classroom settings.
Instruction will be delivered live, online in a virtual format and will not be recorded. 24 Professional Development hours are available. Please Note for FAME Certification: successful completion of all assignments and the final exam are required. Students missing more than 2 hours, total, of online engagement will not receive FAME certification and PD hours will be adjusted accordingly.
- ***Special Deal for Full Time Undergraduate College Students! Cost: $40***
- Cost: $445
- When: Saturdays, October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022
- Time: 9:00am-4:00pm; US Eastern Standard Time
- Instructor: Dr. Missy Strong
I am enjoying the First Steps in Music Teacher Training, and began to integrate several components with my first graders this week to overwhelming enthusiasm! I am deeply impressed by Dr. Strong's work, most notably the honest relationship between teaching concepts and student learning. I feel like I am at the beginning of a nourishing understanding of what it means to really teach. On top of that, working with Dr. Strong and her intuitive blend of humor with a humble approach to ongoing learning is so inspiring to me. It is rare to find someone aligned to their mission with so much integrity, knowledge, and enthusiasm that the ideas become contagious!"First Steps Teacher Attendee, Fall 2021 Register for First Steps Music Teacher Training!
