Music Together Teacher Training Workshop Offered at South Shore Conservatory

South Shore Conservatory, the region’s largest community school for the arts, is offering a 3-day Teacher Training Workshop for Music Together, the nationally-recognized early childhood music and movement program.  The workshop is open to the public and runs Tuesday, April 19 through Thursday, April 21 at the Conservatory’s Hingham location, One Conservatory Drive.  As part of the training, a free Music Together demonstration class will be offered at 11 a.m. each day.  These classes are open to the public.

Music Together classes allow families to become musical together!  Children discover the power of musical play through song, dance and instruments.  The joyful musical environment encourages families to make connections that can last a lifetime.  Music Together teacher training is open to anyone desiring an overview of music development, including parents, university faculty, students, and preschool directors or teachers. Workshop participants will learn the Music Together research-based approach to teaching music and movement to children ages birth through kindergarten.  The workshop provides opportunities to assess children’s rhythmic and tonal development, techniques for presenting musical material, and strategies for lesson planning.

Hours for the teacher training workshop are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m Thursday.  Participants who successfully complete the training are eligible to teach Music Together parent-child or preschool classes, either at an existing Music Together center or by applying for a license to open and operate a Music Together center of their own. The flexibility of challenging part-time work with young children and parents appeals to people from all fields, often musicians, actors, dancers, parents, and educators. No formal academic degrees are required to participate.

The Music Together approach to early childhood music is taught worldwide at more than fifty teacher trainings per year.  Licensed Music Together teachers currently teach children in parent-child and preschool classes in approximately 2000 communities in 49 states and over 20 foreign countries. In addition, many teachers trained by Music Together apply the curriculum and philosophy in preschools and childcare centers.

The cost of the 3-day workshop is $475. Graduate Credits, CMTE Credits, and CEUs are available for completion of the teacher training. For additional information about the workshop or to register, visit www.musictogether.com, contact Lisa Chouteau at (800) 728-2692 x329 or email lchouteau@musictogether.com.

For more information about any of South Shore Conservatory’s early childhood programs, please contact Jennie Mulqueen, Director of Early Childhood Education at 781-749-7565, ext. 33 or visit http://www.sscmusic.org/classes_age_0-9.html.

For more information about Music Together, visit www.musictogether.com.

About South Shore Conservatory

The largest not-for-profit community school for the arts in Massachusetts, South Shore Conservatory (SSC) was founded in 1970.  Over the last 40 years the Conservatory has remained true to its original mission to provide access to quality education in the arts, and now serves more than 2,500 students ages 9 months to 90+, at all skill levels, participating in over 50 programs on site and in outreach programs in partnership with schools and social service agencies throughout the South Shore.  SSC is located at One Conservatory Drive in Hingham (781-749-7565) and in Duxbury at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street (781-934-2731). For more information, please visit www.sscmusic.org.

South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.