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Professional Development & Curriculum for Classroom Guitar

Professional Development and Curriculum for Classroom Guitar
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Upcoming Webinars

Upcoming Webinars
Whether you are a new or experienced classroom guitar teacher, you will benefit from this free professional development opportunity.
The webinar Essential Pedagogy for Classroom Guitar Teachers, conducted by Mike Christiansen, covers many of the key concepts presented in our more extensive multi-day workshops. If you haven’t been exposed to formal classroom guitar pedagogy you’ll leave this information-packed 60-minute session with concrete tactics that you can immediately apply to your classroom teaching.

Who should attend:

  • Music educators currently teaching or planning to teach classroom guitar
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  • Beginning to advanced guitarists
  • School District Fine Arts and Music Coordinators seeing professional development resources for teacher continuing education

Here’s some of things you’ll learn:

  • What you need to know before the students show up
  • Key skills for students, and the best progression for teaching them
  • Layered learning strategies for effective, differentiated instruction
  • How to organize and conduct student ensembles
  • How to teach effectively, even with minimal guitar skills
  • How to easily integrate blended learning technology into the classroom

While signing up for our webinar, be sure to sign up for a free Teacher’s Evaluation License for CMI’s blended learning courseware.

**We have worked on trying to find best times to fit into a busy teaching schedule. If you are not available for these dates/times, please let us know a better time for you and your staff and as we add these to our calendar we will try to make it work for everyone.

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Mike Christiansen – Curriculum Author

Mike Christiansen classroom guitar and ukulele curriculum authorMike Christiansen, classroom guitar & ukulele curriculum author, is Professor Emeritus in the Music Department at Utah State University. Mike founded the guitar program at USU and was Director of Guitar Studies at USU for 39 years. Read More...

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