String Methods

Catalog description

String Methods is a participatory course focused on the pedagogy of string playing in group settings at the elementary and secondary level and designed to prepare music educators for work in the public schools. Hands-on learning of basic string techniques on violin/viola and cello/bass will provide perspective to enable music educators, as well as composers/arrangers and conductors to gain awareness of the many layers of learning and performing on bowed strings. In addition to the scope and sequence of instruction, aspects of creating an inclusive instrumental classroom culture, classroom and program management, recruitment and retention, assessment for strings, differentiation, and remediation will be explored. Selection of appropriate levels of teaching materials and literature, acquiring and managing equipment, and supplies will be addressed as well as how to infuse alternatives styles into the orchestra curriculum.