The ABC's of adding world music to your classroom!

Today’s music classroom is becoming increasingly diverse at the same time when teacher's available resources and planning time is becoming more and more stretched. This workshop will help teachers discover many easy and fun ways to add diverse, multicultural and multilingual music to their classroom studies. Without requiring teachers to spend hours researching world cultures and finding authentic resources, we will look into many ways to bring these valuable and valued world music traditions into music class in a way that is respectful and meaningful…and also fun and educational.

Session Objectives:

  • Increase knowledge of general world music

  • Discover easy and free world music resources and ways to add diversity to music class

  • How to teach tolerance and inclusion through music

Daphne Wright