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Longy School of Music Plays Key Role in New Online Course for Music Educators
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Longy School of Music of Bard College Partners with The Annenberg Foundation, WNET New York Public Media, to Launch New Online Course for Music Educators on the
Venezuelan El Sistema Teaching Program
Free multimedia professional development course The Power of Music: P-5 Teaching Inspired by El Sistema is now available for free online.
El Sistema is a transformational social change program created in 1975 in Venezuela. It has helped hundreds of thousands of impoverished children envision a brighter future for themselves through music education. Music educators in the United States, inspired by their Venezuelan colleagues, are rapidly establishing programs with this mission — to use music as a means to help young people realize their full potential.
The Power of Music: P-5 Teaching Inspired by El Sistema is a new multimedia professional development course to help music educators understand the El Sistema philosophy, infuse its underlying principles into their practice, and implement Sistema-inspired strategies with their students. Annenberg Learner, a division of the Annenberg Foundation, funded the project. The program is available free online at http://www.learner.org, and schools and individuals can also purchase the half-hour videos on DVD through www.learner.org or by calling 800-LEARNER (532-7637).
The program includes eight half-hour videos and more than 40 shorter clips that explore a variety of Sistema-inspired programs and practices used by music educators in diverse communities across the U.S. Accompanying the videos are a wealth of online resources, including interactive tools, a facilitator’s guide, and strategies aligned with the national core standards.
The Longy School of Music of Bard College served as institutional content partner on The Power of Music, collaborating with Thirteen Productions LLC in association with WNET New York Public Media. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, and Karen Zorn, President of Longy, both provided expert commentary, and Judith Hill Bose, Longy’s Education and Research Specialist, served as a lead consultant on the project.
“El Sistema is a powerful, adaptable way for music educators to make a profound difference in their students’ lives,” says Zorn. “Longy’s participation in this program is just one of the many ways we strive to provide training and support to music educators everywhere who are interested in bringing new teaching models to their classrooms.”
About The Longy School of Music: The Longy School of Music of Bard College since 1915 has served as a degree-granting conservatory located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is rapidly gaining international recognition for its efforts to meet a changing musical landscape head-on. The Longy School takes on this duty by providing its classically trained graduates the skills to perform, the ambition to teach, and the ability to reach new audiences and communities beyond those traditionally associated with classical music.
In 2013, Longy launched the first El Sistema-inspired degree-granting program in the world, a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree in Music. Housed at the Heart of Los Angeles Community Center, the site of one of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s premier El Sistema-inspired programs, the MAT provides its students with an onsite practicum – a rare opportunity to teach and learn in one place. Combining this learning lab approach with fieldwork in nucleos and public schools throughout the region, the program provides a highly focused curriculum designed to prepare a new generation of educators committed to the values of El Sistema For more information on Longy’s Master of Arts in Teaching degree program, go to http://www.longy.edu/social-change-through-music/mat/
El Sistema is a transformational social change program created in 1975 in Venezuela. It has helped hundreds of thousands of impoverished children envision a brighter future for themselves through music education. Music educators in the United States, inspired by their Venezuelan colleagues, are rapidly establishing programs with this mission — to use music as a means to help young people realize their full potential.
The Power of Music: P-5 Teaching Inspired by El Sistema is a new multimedia professional development course to help music educators understand the El Sistema philosophy, infuse its underlying principles into their practice, and implement Sistema-inspired strategies with their students. Annenberg Learner, a division of the Annenberg Foundation, funded the project. The program is available free online at http://www.learner.org, and schools and individuals can also purchase the half-hour videos on DVD through www.learner.org or by calling 800-LEARNER (532-7637).
The program includes eight half-hour videos and more than 40 shorter clips that explore a variety of Sistema-inspired programs and practices used by music educators in diverse communities across the U.S. Accompanying the videos are a wealth of online resources, including interactive tools, a facilitator’s guide, and strategies aligned with the national core standards.
The Longy School of Music of Bard College served as institutional content partner on The Power of Music, collaborating with Thirteen Productions LLC in association with WNET New York Public Media. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, and Karen Zorn, President of Longy, both provided expert commentary, and Judith Hill Bose, Longy’s Education and Research Specialist, served as a lead consultant on the project.
“El Sistema is a powerful, adaptable way for music educators to make a profound difference in their students’ lives,” says Zorn. “Longy’s participation in this program is just one of the many ways we strive to provide training and support to music educators everywhere who are interested in bringing new teaching models to their classrooms.”
About The Longy School of Music: The Longy School of Music of Bard College since 1915 has served as a degree-granting conservatory located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is rapidly gaining international recognition for its efforts to meet a changing musical landscape head-on. The Longy School takes on this duty by providing its classically trained graduates the skills to perform, the ambition to teach, and the ability to reach new audiences and communities beyond those traditionally associated with classical music.
In 2013, Longy launched the first El Sistema-inspired degree-granting program in the world, a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree in Music. Housed at the Heart of Los Angeles Community Center, the site of one of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s premier El Sistema-inspired programs, the MAT provides its students with an onsite practicum – a rare opportunity to teach and learn in one place. Combining this learning lab approach with fieldwork in nucleos and public schools throughout the region, the program provides a highly focused curriculum designed to prepare a new generation of educators committed to the values of El Sistema For more information on Longy’s Master of Arts in Teaching degree program, go to http://www.longy.edu/social-change-through-music/mat/
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