Core Workshop Sessions

Participants will attend one class every day with each of the core clinicians listed below:

Meaningful Musical Connections:  Interdisciplinary Connections and the Comprehensive Music Curriculum
Clinician: Janet Barrett
Course Description: How could one familiar song lead meaningfully to history, culture, art, literature, and more?  A model for starting with musical works will be introduced and illustrated with a new look at a classic favorite. Learn how music teachers can support and foster reading skills while supporting and fostering music learning. Experience ways to design strong lessons using poems, paintings, and musical works. Examine famous examples of inspired connections, and play with children’s literature and jazz with a dash of concrete poetry and a dollop of musical puzzle.


Effective and Efficient Teaching in the Elementary Music Classroom
Clinician: Michael Chandler
Course Description: In this series of sessions, participants will explore ways to encourage student creativity and improvisation in the music classroom using the processes of Orff Schulwerk.  Experience how to use materials from the music curricula of various grade levels to plan performances for parents and administrators that advocate your music program and maximize instructional time.  Learn how to also integrate the soprano recorder into lessons in ways that don’t place other skills and concepts on hold.  Sing, say, dance, and play your way to effective lesson design that empowers and motivates students.


Sing and Play the Kodaly Way
Clinician: Cecile Johnson
Course Description: Sessions will focus on building a sequential program of singing games, greeting songs, passing games, play parties and movement activities that promote in-tune singing, cooperative play and independent musical literacy according to the Kodaly philosophy and methodology.  Find authentic song material that will create solo singing opportunities and use children’s literature to enhance and extend your lessons. Learn how to sequence and teach singing games for student success and teacher sanity.

INTERLUDE WORKSHOP SESSIONS
INTERLUDE WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Interludes are workshop sessions that allow participants to cross disciplines. The following Interlude sessions are available to all Academy participants and will be offered on both Monday and Wednesday afternoon from 2:25 PM to 3:10 PM unless otherwise indicated. Please check back regularly for updates. For complete information on these sessions go to: http://tennesseeartsacademy.org/connections.html

INTERLUDE WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Monday and Wednesday

The following Interlude sessions are available to all Academy participants and will be offered on both Monday and Wednesday afternoon from 2:25 PM to 3:10 PM unless otherwise indicated.

Ann Ayers
WOW’em!
From Monster Mash, Mad-Hatter’s Tea Party, Pinwheels for Peace and  Lawn Painting to Funky Fashions, Thinking Caps, Cow Parades, and Artist Feats, all levels from beginner to expert will discover something to be used with students.  Ann has spent years trolling the Internet, seeking and searching and bookmarking!  You’ll see her favorite sites, favorite programs, and favorite technology tools. Technology takes on a whole new meaning and a whole new “Buzz”!

Janet Barrett
Bach and the Beetles: A Contrapuntal Interlude with Movement, Music and Poetry
Come prepared to move, perform, and listen as we experience the rich connections between a Newberry Award winning poet’s work and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Jeff Bush
It’s Carnival Time!
Come join the parade! This hands-on session for everyone (no musical experience necessary) is an exercise based on a form of Brazilian percussion music called Batucada, particularly popular during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Through a variety of exercises, participants will not only discover one form of Brazilian music, but also to promote creativity, elements of music and numerous educational concepts.  You’ll learn a little about the culture and get an opportunity to march around in our own little Carnival!

Michael Chandler
Strategies for Developing Part-Singing in the Elementary Choir
Come experience three joyful choral selections that each represent a different way to facilitate beginning part-singing while reinforcing music skills and concepts with the elementary choir.

Robert Colby
“A Mother’s Heart:” Adapting a Text for Theatrical Performance
Working with characters and a theme that have appeared in short stories, poems, and ballads all over the world and across several centuries, participants will adapt the text as a play and perform several versions of it, all in 45 minutes!

Virginia Derryberry
Second Nature & Alchemical Narratives
Virginia Derryberry will present slides of recent narrative paintings from both her “Second Nature” series and “Alchemical Narratives” series.

Joel G. Fink
Truly Humour-ous Characters
Joel G. Fink will explore the use of the four humours in the creation of characters. The theory of the humours as the basis for personality-types dates back to at least the 2nd century A.D. Even today, however, it is a useful tool for analyzing and creating characters on-stage.

David Gamble
Painting and Ceramics
David Gamble will show images of his work and some European symposiums in which he participated over the past several years.
(Monday Only)

Daryle Grenead
New Art Teacher Discussion
Daryle Grenead will meet with new art teachers for an informative and casual session to discuss great classroom tips, organizational ideas, and ways to create meaningful and successful lessons for the art curriculum. 
(Monday Only)

Cecile Johnson
Sing a Story~ Read a Song
Learn to use children’s literature books with music connections to enhance and extend your lessons in a meaningful and purposeful way.

Elana Lagerquist
Building Character: Finding the Drama within the Language Arts
Elana Lagerquist will facilitate an interactive literacy through theatre lesson that explores the integration of the performing arts and the language arts curricula. By using the theatre techniques of tableaux and improvisation, participants will create characters to playfully develop oral language and writing skills.

Judy Langille
Art Created from One Piece of Cloth
Judy Langille will present “Art Created from One Piece of Cloth”, a power point slide show that includes work of artists from all over the world. Each piece Judy displays is created using a variety of surface design techniques, but all interestingly use only one piece of fabric to begin the work.

Libby Marcus
Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Method: A Useful Process for Responding to Student Work
Libby will take participants through this step-by-step group process for responding to artistic work that is supportive of student-artists and wonderful for developing the critical eye in young audiences.
(Monday Only)

Libby Marcus
Sure Fire Warm-ups & Icebreakers: Activities for Building a Safe Space to Create
Libby Marcus will guide participants through a series of her favorite tried and true theater games that develop confidence, trust and good feelings in any group setting.
(Wednesday Only)

Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
Impulse: Connecting through Sound, Movement & Gesture
It is only through letting go that we can truly get "in-touch" with our impluse. It is impulse wherein lies our artistic genius. Participants will explore some simple and fun exercises that demonstrate the power and magic of transition as it connects to impluse as well as learning how we get in our own way by controlling or blocking our creative impulse.

Davis Robinson
Music for a Change
Some fun ways to use music in the classroom or rehearsal hall to recharge the batteries, break up tensions, and get new ideas percolating. Use of recorded music as well as simple rhythmic and vocal exercises will be introduced.