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Professional Development and Curriculum for Classroom Guitar
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CLASSROOM GUITAR TEACHER TRAINING: WEBINAR

Whether you have already taught a guitar class, or are just considering adding guitar to your teaching repertoire; whether an accomplished guitarist or a beginning player, you owe it to yourself to attend this free training professional development opportunity. This 60 minute webinar presentation, conducted by Mike Christiansen, covers many of the key concepts presented in our more extensive in-person workshops and online training. If you haven’t been exposed to formal classroom guitar pedagogy training you’ll leave this information packed 60 minutes session with concrete tactics that you can immediately apply to your classroom teaching.

Who this course is of interest to:

  • Music educators currently teaching or planning to teach classroom guitar
  • 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:

  • All you REALLY need to know before the kids show up
  • Which skills students really need and the best progression for teaching them
  • Layered learning strategies for simple yet effective differentiated instruction
  • How to organize and conduct student ensembles that you can be proud of
  • How to teach effectively, even with minimal guitar skills
  • How easily integrate the benefits of blended learning into the classroom

Attendees will also receive an evaluation subscription to CMI’s Guitar Fundamentals – Beginning Level Course At the end of the webinar, you receive free access to essential CMI resources including sample blended learning courseware, ensemble arrangements, class lesson plans, and access to the Consonus Online Learning Site with its professional learning community.

The Consonus Online Learning Site offers video tutorials on multiple aspects of teaching classroom guitar, a forum in which to chat with your colleagues, and access to CMI’s blended learning guitar courses, which are carefully created to simultaneously improve your guitar skills and serve as a model for classroom instruction.

This webinar is taught by Mike Christiansen, distinguished author of over 40 instructional texts for guitar and one of America’s foremost experts in classroom guitar pedagogy.

Preview a complete workshop outline.

For more information on attending or sponsoring CMI’s Classroom Guitar Teacher Training Webinar, e-mail us at training@cmilearn.org or call us at 866-714-2633.

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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What Teachers Think

"This classroom guitar system will make my job as a teacher so much easier."

Cami Jensen Utah Valley University

"I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed your classroom guitar curriculum and classroom ukulele curriculum here at Lakeview Academy. The kids stay engaged and have progressed much farther than I could have ever taken them on my own."

Ruth Young Lakeview Academy

"We really like the Consonus Music Institute product and … I anticipate using this classroom guitar curriculum for quite some time."

Dwight Dodd Bartlett High School

"The classroom guitar course is very well organized and easy to comprehend. The students can work ahead as fast as they are ready with the help of the online resources."

Spencer Jensen Legacy Preparatory Academy

"I am an experienced guitar player, and yet CMI has provided me with a valuable resource in my beginning classroom guitar class. The sequence of concepts, structure of lessons, and choices of music are all well thought out, and the engaging blended learning platform allows me to provide more individual and small group support."

Richard Langham Chaparral Middle School

"The level of accomplishment of the class has certainly increased since I began using CMI's classroom guitar material."

Richard Langham Chaparral Middle School

"As a brass player and band teacher who has been asked to teach classroom guitar this curriculum is a life saver. Using video instruction to demonstrate guitar techniques and musical examples allows me to put my focus on helping the student’s with their performance."

Paul Dewey Legacy Preparatory Academy

"I really like the way tablature is introduced in this classroom guitar curriculum. It looks more like real music. I think it sets up the students for success when learning how to read rhythms and standard notation."

Brian Parker Granite Park Junior High School

"The Consonus Music Institute Classroom Guitar Curriculum guides the students to become better guitarists and musicians. It enables them to take responsibility for their learning."

Karen Straus Carrolton Christian Academy

"Consonus has the best 'pre-reading' guitar TAB approach for classroom guitar I have seen. Transitioning into standard notation is actually smooth. Kids quickly feel successful and motivated. I'm a fan."

Chris Frazer Pueblo Middle School

"I love how Consonus classroom guitar curriculum starts with tablature and incorporates chords from the beginning. The way the tablature incorporates aspects of standard notation, making that a little less scary when we get to it about halfway through the book."

Kelley Neudecker Fulton High School

"The developmental sequencing is the best of any published classroom guitar curriculum I've used. I love the emphasis on technique building."

David Jackman Alpine School District

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