Maine Motif Maine Motif May 2017 Issue 3 Volume I | Page 24

use project based learning in music? How do you know your
students are engaged? Lets have a Round Table Discussion.
2:00-3:00
Intentional Movement in the Music Classroom
Bodwell Lounge - Lillie Feierabend, clinician
Movement is an integral part of being musical; worthy of the same
explicit and intentional instruction devoted to the literacy
component of our curriculum. This lively session shares strategies
and techniques to enhance the movement component while
involving students in our folk music heritage of songs, dances, and
singing games.
Out of the “Orff”-dinary
130 Little - Brian Gagnon, clinician
This session will cover things that you can do in the general music
class to engage students in creating and instrument playing that you
didn't learn in college. Learn how to (somewhat) easily write songs
in your general music class. Leave with Orff arrangements of rock
and pop songs. If you think there's no place for this in your
curriculum, then you've never seen how actively engaged kids are
when creating, learning, and performing songs they’ve written, or
songs they know and love! Kids will show fresh excitement for
learning, and you'll hear the results in the way they perform!
195th Army Band: Paying for College while Serving Your
Country
101 Neville - Brady Harris, clinician
Will cover the benefits for serving with the 195th Army Band, Maine
National Guard to include in-state college tuition, GI Bill, drill pay,
health care benefits, retirement benefits, professional quality
instruments, and much more.
Running a Select Vocal Ensemble in a Middle School
Jeness Lobby - Laura Whitney, clinician
This session will include a performance of the Gray New Gloucester
Middle School Chamber Singers and Q&A session on running a
Chamber Singers ensemble at the middle school level.