In addition to the SAA Short Term Teacher Training courses listed, we are very pleased to be able to offer additional courses for teachers and parents. To print out a complete listing of all teacher enrichment courses with date and times, click here: Teacher Enrichment Courses
No video audition tapes are required for any of these courses!
:: Chamber Music Coaching Practicum::
Teaching solo repertoire and being an effective chamber music coach are different! Improve your skills as a chamber music coach with practical feedback daily from a professional string quartet. Practicum participants will attend class for one hour each day with the faculty quartets in addition to observing 5 hours of student quartets and a chamber music seminar daily. Some generous scholarships to cover tuition, lodging, and meals are available through the Amateur Chamber Music Players Foundation:
ACMP Foundation
Att. Daniel Nimetz
1123 Broadway, Room 304
New York, NY 10010-2007
Phone: 212/645-7424
Fax: 212/741-2678
5 hours: Offered at both sessions
Tuition: $170
:: Violin Tuning for Teachers ::
This one-time, one-hour class includes tips for teaching students how to install strings, use tuners and pegs, listen to pitch, tuning techniques and other helpful hints. Bring your instrument. This section is separate from the student tuning classes.
Session 1: Sat., June 14, 10:30 AM
Session 2: Sat., June 21, 10:30 AM
Tuition: $34
:: Teaching Viola to Violinists as a second Instrument ::
Helping to maintain the future of orchestras and chamber music
Gail Acosta, CA
Learn fun and efficient ways to present the viola to violin students. This class, meets one hour, each morning. Class participants experience reading the alto clef and performing Suzuki viola repertoire and other supplementary materials provided. Share in the process of acquiring these viola skills with your students and help boost the viola population for your chamber ensembles. Bring a viola (or restring a violin with viola strings for the week. ) Some violas are available for rental from Robertsons & Son, 1-800-284-6546.
Call to reserve a viola and pick it up on check-in day. Class begins on Tuesday, June 10 for session 1 and Tuesday, June 17 for session 2 and meets one hour each morning during the session.
5 hours: offered each session - Tuition: $170
:: Teaching Double Bass for Orchestra Teachers: Build the foundation of your
ensemble ::
Virginia Dixon, IL
John Kennedy, MI
Transform your bassists into truly beautiful players. Learn to teach the fundamentals of posture and positioning through games. Overview the best literature for young bassists, including solos and ensembles, and discover where the littlest bass strings are to be found. Gain tips for keeping your bassists busy and happy. Preview the three revised Suzuki bass volumes including many new pieces, with its option to start bass students in first position. A limited number of basses are available for use by this class.
4 hours: offered each session
Dixon: Sess. 1: Tues. & Thurs.,
June 10 & 13, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Kennedy: Sess. 2: Tues. & Thurs.,
June 17 & 19, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Tuition: $136
:: Sibelius: Computer Based Music Theory ::
Carl van Wyk, TX
This course offers information and hands-on instruction about computer-based music theory ear training, music notation and elementary composition. SIBELIUS software programs are surveyed, demonstrated and utilized. Ways of challenging children, both novice and computer-literate, will be explored via computer-based music theory. Bonus: you will be able to produce and print your own score of a short piece of music.
6 hours: Sunday, June 15
Tuition: $204
:: Flute Repair:
Troubleshooting, Basic Repair & Maintenance for Flutists ::
Sherry Lee, CO
Sherry Lee of Lee's Woodwinds teaches this hands-on course for teachers and technicians. The morning class, Level 1, covers basics; the afternoon class, Level 2, is for people who have taken Level 1 or those who have taken the course in previous years. It will be a fun and somewhat technical look at basic “care & feeding” of flutes, plus the dos and don’ts of buying a new flute for both students and pros. The course includes identifying which problems you can easily fix and which ones to refer to a technician, play testing, and a discussion and exhibit of materials. An elementary playing knowledge of the flute is required. Bring a flute (that you are not presently playing!) to work on. Upon registration, you will receive a short list of affordable basic tools to be purchased before attending. Level 1 needs no prior technical knowledge. Level 2, though slightly more advanced, is still geared toward teachers, not technicians in the flute repair profession.
Level 1: 4 hours:
Sunday, June 15 8 AM - noon;
Tuition: $136
Level 2: 4 hours:
Sunday, June 15 1:30 - 5:30 PM
Tuition: $136
:: The Penny Whistle as a pre-Suzuki Instrument ::
Mary Beth Norris, CO
The penny whistle is an attractive, simple to play, very inexpensive six holed wind instrument that provides a gentle introduction into the world of music and music lessons. The Norris Penny Whistle School Method is a fun way to acquaint youngsters (ideally ages 4-7) and their parents with basic music skills including ear training, note identification, musicianship, ensemble playing and successful performance. The Method is particularly useful to the flutist wishing to lay a foundation upon which to build a Suzuki flute studio. This workshop provides an overview of curriculum, tunes, games, tools and techniques that have taken this humble little instrument into a proud place in early childhood music education.
3 hours: Sunday, June 15, 6:30-9:30 PM
Tuition: $102
::EQ Workshop: Whole Mind, Whole Child::
Pandora Bryce, Ontario
Amy Franklin, NM
Emotional Quotient (EQ) is an interactive workshop where participants will explore specific ways to add the skills of Emotional Intelligence to the mental and physical abilities developed in Suzuki Method. The capacity to use emotions effectively is a teachable and learnable skill, which has been shown to enhance personal achievement. Many children do not realize that they have choice in their emotional responses, and parents may be unfamiliar with specific ways to coach their children in how to choose effective emotional reactions in everyday situations. This workshop will provide a foundation for developing EQ in the family and Suzuki environments.
1.5 hours: Wednesday, June 18, 7:00-8:30 PM
Tuition: $51
:: Every Child Can! ::
This course is an introduction to Dr. Suzuki’s philosophy and its application to Suzuki education. For parents, teachers, perspective teachers and others, this new course provides an inspiring, in-depth look at the Suzuki approach to teaching and learning. For teachers, ECC serves as the required first course in the Suzuki Association of the Americas’ Teacher Development Program. In addition to exploring the elements of the Suzuki approach and its far-reaching goals, it includes an introduction to learning styles, history of the development of Suzuki education, the role of parents, the importance of Suzuki pedagogical training, and an overview of the Suzuki Association of the Americans’ role in supporting teachers and parents. A fast-paced, engaging and inspiring program, ECC includes new video materials and SAA-developed courseware and provides each participant with useful reference materials for later study. In order to register the course with the SAA, a participant needs to attend all 6 hours.
Session 1: Saturday, June 7
Session 2: Saturday, June
14
9-noon and 1:30 – 4:30 PM
Tuition: $204