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January 27, 2018 at 5:08 pm
in reply to: What was your most valuable takeaway from this weeks’ content?
ParticipantThat’s good to know, Erika. I think maybe making it into a “cheat sheet” would help- then I wouldn’t even need to have the book out all the time!
ParticipantI believe that what I will bring to early childhood music therapy based programs is my experience of working with children in various settings and being able to observe and learn about the different ways children interact with and through music. I’m also fortunate to have three children of my own, and have been quite active in learning about their development as it happens. Personally, I am quite child-like and am happy to jump, crawl, roll on the floor, and do silly things just for a giggle. The information in this course will support my work as music therapist by providing a developmentally based framework to build my approach on. It will help me to have a deeper understanding of what to look for in children’s responses to music and how to use that to support the child’s development and the family relationship.
Erin
January 26, 2018 at 9:27 am
in reply to: What was your most valuable takeaway from this weeks’ content?
ParticipantIt is difficult for me to identify the most valuable takeaway! I took an Early Childhood Development course before I had children, observed my own three going through these stages (with one still going through it), and observe with fascination the young children and babies around me in the community. Despite all of this, I STILL cannot recall what exactly happens when. I like the use of the scarf to mark the general picture of the baby in different stages. It does help to keep in mind what a child should sort of be like in different stages. Also, keeping them into broad categories of 3-6 month chunks when they are under age 3 helps because the development can vary so much from child to child. I’ve noticed a child can excel in one area while lagging behind in another, and then they seem to eventually even out by age 5 or 6.
ParticipantHi Cassie,
I am very interested to hear how Sprouting Melodies differs from the training you had with Music Together. Music Together is one of my favourite early childhood music programs, but I never could commit 100%. I think they also do a sort of extension for music thearpists, perhaps with Carol Anne Blank? Not sure…Please redirect me, moderators, if this sort of discussion is not appropriate for the forum (comparing early childhood programs).
ErinParticipantHi Haley, I went to Temple too! I graduated with my Master’s in 2008. What a lovely program with so many wonderful opportunities.
ParticipantHi Beth,
We are about an hour south of Glasgow- in Moffat. It’s a lovely wee town in the hills, though I’d live just about anywhere in Scotland. It is an amazing place 🙂 How nice that your daughter could spend so much time here!ParticipantHi all, I’m Erin Bullard. I am currently not practicing as a music therapist, however, I do teach early childhood music classes in my house! When my first two children were 0 and 2 years old, I joined a Music Together class in New Jersey. I loved it SOOOO much (we also had a really good teacher). Then we moved to Cincinnati and I signed them up for a Music Together class, and we had a not-so-great experience (oh, what a good teacher can do!). I couldn’t find any other classes near me, so I started my own! I roughly used the format of Music Together, since I was familiar with it (and read Edwin Gordon’s books). After 2.5 years, we moved to a small town in Scotland. I’ve been teaching parent-tot groups and young children here for just over 2 years.
My clinical experience is mostly in adult psych and older adults, though I have had some work in schools and Shriner’s hospital in Philadelphia. I have taught music to children on and off for about 23 years. I signed up for the course because I feel like I need something to help me organize all the information in my head and clarify some of the musical development. Also, I don’t want to base my classes on EDUCTION, but on CHILDREN. I think models of music education are great (Suzuki, Kodaly, Orff, etc), but I’ve found I can’t stick to one because my student’s / client’s needs keep changing! I was very attracted to the fact that Sprouting Melodies leaves so much room for interpretation and because it relies on the fact that we already have a foundation in development and meeting the individual’s needs- NOT the program’s needs.
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