[NEohioPAL] Music Together Teacher Training Workshop to Take Place in Cleveland Heights

[Marjorie Preston]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*


 Contact: Lisa Chouteau

 Educational Events Manager

 (800) 728-2692 x329

 lchouteau at musictogether.com

 MUSIC TOGETHER TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOP  TO TAKE PLACE IN *CLEVELAND
HEIGHTS, OH*


*Disciples Christian Church*

*3663 Mayfield Road*

*Cleveland Heights, OH 44121*


 *May 31, June 1 and June 2*


 * **Music Together**®**,* the national early childhood music and movement
program developed in Princeton, New Jersey, is offering a three-day Teacher
Training Workshop at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights, OH,
May 31, June 1 and June 2. The teacher training is open to anyone desiring
an overview of music development, including parents, university faculty,
students, and preschool directors or teachers. Workshop participants will
learn Music Together’s* *research-based approach to teaching music and
movement to children ages birth through kindergarten.

Participants who successfully complete the training will be eligible to
teach Music Together parent-child or preschool classes, either at an
existing Music Together center or by applying for a license to open and
operate a Music Together center of their own. The flexibility of
challenging part-time work with young children and parents appeals to
musicians, actors, dancers, parents, and educators. No formal academic
degrees are required.

The workshop provides opportunities to assess children’s rhythmic and tonal
development, techniques for presenting musical material, and strategies for
lesson planning. There will be live early childhood music demonstration
classes on each day of the workshop, teaching children and their parents
using the Music Together curriculum.

Since 1987, Kenneth K. Guilmartin, Founder/Director of Music Together LLC
and coauthor of Music Together, has been a pioneer in teaching parents and
caregivers how to nurture their children’s musical growth. “The whole
purpose of the Music Together program is to enable children, as well as the
adults participating with them, to become more comfortable with musical
expression, and to develop musically at their own pace,” says Guilmartin.
He adds, “Childhood music development is a natural process just like
language development.”

Recent research shows that children’s innate ability to make music is
strongly supported as children observe the adults with whom they have an
emotional bond actively engaging in making music. This is possible
regardless of the adult’s own musical ability. Music making is fun and
engaging for children, parents, and teachers—and, as a highly beneficial
side effect—contributes to the development of language and other
intelligences, including spatial and mathematical.

The Music Together approach to early childhood music is taught worldwide at
more than fifty teacher trainings per year. (For more information, visit
www.musictogether.com.) Licensed Music Together teachers currently teach
children in parent-child and preschool classes in approximately 2000
communities in 49 states and over 20 foreign countries. In addition, many
teachers trained by Music Together apply the curriculum and philosophy in
preschools and childcare centers.

The cost of the three-day workshop is $475. Graduate Credits, CMTE Credits,
and CEUs are available for completion of the teacher training. For
additional information about the workshop or to register, visit our website
*www.musictogether.com,* or contact Lisa Chouteau at (800) 728-2692 x329 /
lchouteau at musictogether.com.

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