David Neches offers workshops for educators and general audiences. Each workshop can be scaled for an individual school, a small group or system-wide gatherings. For more information, contact David at dneches@gmail.com.
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Making Creativity the Focus of Your Elementary Music Curriculum
Are your students being creative enough? Here’s a guide path to establishing student-directed creativity throughout your curriculum. Learn how movement, improvisation and composition using non-traditional notation can make your music students come alive with musical creativity.
Is Your Elementary Chorus Good? Here’s How to Make it Great!
Learn tips and techniques to make your school chorus the most popular club in school! Topics covered include: establishing a “cool” factor for your group, recruitment, arranging out of school concerts, repertoire, festival participation and much more.
Take Your Elementary Chorus to LGPE – Here’s How!
Very few elementary teachers take their elementary chorus groups to LGPE. For those that do, it can be a great experience for your students and a good way to kick your program up notch. Here’s everything you need to know about applying, appropriate repertoire, day of event tips, and what the judges are really looking for.
You Can’t Get in Trouble: A New approach to Music Classroom Discipline
Break the reward/punishment cycle with a new approach that creates a blame free environment which allows students the best possible chance of making good conduct choices. Explore creative ways of engineering your classroom space to allow even the most challenging student to thrive.
Everyone Is Musical
Not everyone is musically talented, but everyone is musical – often in ways they don’t fully understand. This talk focuses on the innate musicality that is in all of us. Learn how our bodies are hard wired to be musical so that we can act as receptors for the music that is all around us. Then explore how being musical is just the tip of our artistic selves.
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