Teaching Music Literacy: Developing Independent Musicians

Phoenix Children’s Chorus is committed to quality music education within PCC as well as in K-12 schools. As such, we are excited to offer an innovative 3-day workshop for current and future music educators focused on research-based music teaching methods. Inspiring educator Dr. Carol Krueger will share her approach to building literate and independent musicians. J.W. Pepper is proud to provide reading session materials for this event!

These experiential workshops will focus on the acquisition of music literacy skills via a sound-before-symbol approach and explore specific techniques for developing audiation, dictation and improvisation. Helping individuals become musically literate is central to the school, community, and church music curriculum. Working from the premise that students learn musical skills in much the same order as they do language skills, participants will explore how we ‘learn’ music through hearing and imitating patterns before reading and writing. The pedagogy also includes sequential techniques for teaching improvisation and dictation, key components of music literacy. Workshop participants will also be presented with teaching strategies and techniques for integrating and applying literacy skills to appropriate repertoire. Special attention will be given to the development of music literacy curriculum maps and diction maps.

Link to more information or to the event registration: https://www.phoenixchildrenschorus.org/summerliteracy