Guitars in the Classroom

Learning music is not a race
We each learn at our own pace
Register for what feels best
Cuz music keeps the learning fresh!

ADAPTING MUSIC FOR STUDENTS WITH EXTENSIVE PHYSICAL AND/OR COGNITIVE SUPPORT NEEDS IN SCHOOLS, HOPSITALS, OR HOMES

Course Prerequisite:
Total Beginner Uke prior to, or concurrent with, this workshop

This course is open to any GITC participant interested in adapting music for students with physical and/or cognitive support needs. Special educators, specialists, paras, and home hospital teachers, we’ll build the class around the students you are teaching this fall! Instruction will be focused on making musical experiences and instruction fully inclusive with medical, motoric, mobility, vision, hearing, or speech considerations.

As part of our AMAISE program (Adaptive Music for Achievement in Inclusion and Special Education), this course will help you get inventive, and tune into how your students are processing, producing and responding to musical sounds, patterns, and songs. We will structure musically inclusive activities using physical supports and accommodations of all kinds, with teaching based in empathy, mirroring, assets-based thinking, and peer support. Everyone deserves the gift of making music. No prior musical experience beyond a Total Beginner GITC class or something equivalent is necessary to learn to lead the way.

All classes in this series will be taught from 7-8 pm PT / 8-9 pm MT / 9-10 pm CT / 10-11 pm ET.

Thurs. Oct. 9 @ 7 pm PT
Thurs. Oct. 16 @ 7 pm PT
Thurs. Oct. 23 @ 7 pm PT
Thurs. Oct. 30 @ 7 pm PT

For more information on this specific course, please email Jess directly at jess@guitarsintheclassroom.org