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The three songs
from Stories We Sing
featured in the piece
entitled “Intersections”
Intersections & Transformation
“Every person, just like every ceramic pot, has
unique talents and abilities that can be harnessed
and developed, and it is up to the teacher to use
the arts as a tool to deepen their understanding
of each child and nurture them.”
generating joyful sounds. This reminds us “Music Teacher – Growing Musical Identities”,
that every person, just like every ceramic they show how our musical experiences are
pot, has unique talents and abilities that can broadened when we tune ourselves to be at
WATCH be harnessed and developed. It is up to the our musical best, to forge creative musical
teacher to use the arts as a tool to deepen possibilities and bring out the best in our
Click to watch
the performance
entitled
“Intersections”
that weaves
the themes of
three songs from
Stories We Sing their understanding of each child’s unique students.
qualities and to nurture them.
The opening was a delightful start to the
Ding Yi was joined by four music teachers conference, highlighting the conference
as instrumentalists, modelling how teachers theme, and inspiring the audience to imagine
can hone their artistic craft to impact their non-conventional intersections that can occur
music teaching practices and inspire their in music-making and explore how they can
students to pursue excellence in the arts. transform learning experiences.
Just like the music teachers featured in