Teaching Through Music & Visual Art

Course Summary

This course has been designed for experienced teachers (with 3 years' + teaching experience). The course aims to give teachers an insight into how they can integrate music and art into their teaching so as to stimulate learners desire to learn and to open often unexpected channels into mind, body, and spirit connections.

It is designed for teachers who are looking for new dimensions in their teaching. As this is a methodology course, the approaches to teaching and learning will also be of interest not only to teachers of English but teachers of other languages. Occasionally, the course attracts native-speaking teachers from the U.K..

Programme of the training activities

• Using art as a stimulus for task based learning and integrated skills teaching
• Putting life into course book exercises and filling in the gaps often missing in the course book content.
• Using music in as an aid to classroom management and for working with different levels of energy throughout the day.
• Ways of using the arts to enable more effective learning with "difficult" or unmotivated students.
• Using music to enhance areas of learning such as pronunciation, vocabulary, and fluency practice.
• Using art and music as a basis for storytelling, drama and movement
• Introductions to one or more of the following approaches to teaching and learning: Multiple Intelligence, Psychodrama Linguistic, Task Based Learning Suggestopedia.

Expected results
As a result of attending this course, the participants will be more knowledgeable practitioners and will acquire new tools they need to reach out to all their students.

Is this the right course for me?

• Yes, if you are an experienced teacher who wants to participate on a course which will both widen your range of teaching options and promote your own creative abilities.
• Yes, if you want to participate in a course committed to humanistic principles and approaches.

If this is not the right course for you, please consider one of the following:

• Teaching English Through Multiple Intelligences - a course which investigates both the theory of Multiple Intelligences and provides you with approaches to teaching different learner styles more effectively.
• Methodology and Lnaguage for Secondary Teaching or Methodology and Language for Primary Teachers if you want a course more specifically guided towards a specific age group.
• Creative Methodology in the Classroom - a course which explores several approaches, helps you boost your own creative power and teach lessons that are effective and fun

Programme of the training activities day by day:
Please note this is an example of a daily programme. Course content may often be usefully adapted to incorporate the needs of each specific group. Week 1

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday AM 9.30-10.30 Bonding activities Exploring Art 1 Task Based Learning 1 Music and Classroom Dynamics Lessons from Psycholinguistics Dramaturgy? 11.00-12.30 Group formation Exploring Art 2 Task Based Learning 2 Music-based lessons 1: beyond the gap fill format Lessons from Multiple Intelligences theory PM 14.00-15.30 Goal setting and needs analysis What skills are required? Using Art to supplement the course book Music-based lessons 2: beyond the gap fill format Week review and goal setting for week two

Week 2

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday AM 9.30-10.30 Storytelling Using pictures 1 Lessons from Suggestopedia 2 Helping the students go beyond the language 2 11.00-12.30 Drama Using pictures 2 Dealing with difficult learners Art and Music and movement 1 PM 14.00-15.30 Creative Writing Lessons from Suggestopedia 1 Helping students go beyond the language 1 Art and Music and movement 2 Course review and final feedback

Recommended reading: Please note it is not necessary to buy or bring these books to the course.

• "Creative Resources" J. Feher and B. Tsai (IAL) 2004
• "Music and Song" T. Murphy (OUP) 1992
• "The Mind's Eye" A. Maley, A. Duff, F. Grellet (CUP) 1980

Type of the certification awarded in the language of the training:
Attendance certificate detailing topics covered and course content.