Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:00-11:00 AM
9:00 AM-12:00 PM 9:00 AM-4:00 PM 10:00 AM
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Alabama Honor Choir Rehearsal - Exhibit Hall A All-State Show Choir Rehearsal - Exhibit Hall B FAME - Riverview 1
Grand Opening of the Exhibits - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall C - Open until 5:00 PM Featured Performance by the Birmingham Seven
AMEA General Session - Montgomery Performing Arts Center Choosing Excellence is Easy: Maintaining it is the Key to Success - Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Keynote
We are all committed to excellence in our teaching; however, the journey offers some interesting twists and turns. We lead our students to quality by constantly improving ourselves. Success begets success.
12:00-1:00 PM 12:00-1:00 PM 1:00-2:00 PM
Boaz Intermediate School Honor Choir - Miriam Richey, Conductor AMEA Past President’s Luncheon - Renaissance, Riverview 2 HED Luncheon - Renaissance, Riverview 4
AVA Performance Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Randolph School Concert Choir - Christopher M. Walters, Conductor Oak Park Middle School Unity - Stacy Owens, Conductor
1:00-2:00 PM
Interest Session - Embassy Suites Rhythm Instrument Fun - Denise Gagne, Clinician
Rhythm instruments are tons of fun. Learn strategies for using instruments that will give your students opportunities to make music with instruments --- without chaos! You’ll use instruments to keep a beat, to create sound effects, to create percussion pieces, to explore loud/quiet, fast/slow and to help develop listening skills. You’ll learn strategies for helping your students become better readers. You’ll use instruments to play along with classical music, and you’ll use them to create accompaniments for stories. You’ll improvise and create your own compositions. This session will give you many ideas for using non-pitched percussion with your preK - Grade 5 students.
1:00-2:00 PM
Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD A Successful First 5 Years in the Classroom - Gene Butler, Clinician
This session will cover steps to a having a successful first 5 years in the classroom. Many beginning teachers have missteps in their first few years of teaching. It is not the misstep that defines failure or success, it is the response you choose to take to the misstep. The session will give insight on how to react to some of these situations and other steps that can be taken to have a successful first 5 years in the classroom.
1:00-2:00 PM
Interest Session - Renaissance, Riverview 3 We All Perform On the Same Stage - Improving the Ensemble Skills Of Your Secondary String Players Joseph Brennan, Clinician
“We All Perform On the Same Stage” and "Just because you can play it by yourself, doesn't mean that you can play it with the rest of us”. If these phrases apply to you and your students, then this session is for you. Learn ways to improve rhythmic accuracy, intonation, and artistic expression of string players in secondary ensembles. Give your students the skills necessary to participate more fully in the ensemble. Rehearsal techniques, use of technology, assessments, and chamber groups will be discussed. Skills are given a hierarchy and related to specific musical elements. These skills are then directly related to the playing skills and technique of an orchestral stringed instrument. Musical examples are used to show how these skills are developed in each rehearsal. Rehearsal techniques are rooted in the concepts of Music Learning Theory with the goal being that each student has an ownership of the musical content and the skills necessary to perform better by design rather than by chance in any type of ensemble setting. Many of these rehearsal techniques can also be adapted for other types of instrumental, as well as, vocal ensembles. With this session comes a handout containing 30 phrases and analogies that can be used in the rehearsal to help students improve their participation and understanding of what it means to perform in an ensemble.
1:00-2:00 PM
Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Music Teacher Educator Roundtable - Ted Hoffman, Moderator
A roundtable discussion for music teacher educators and other concerned college and university faculty. Topics for conversation will include: Alabama State Department of Education mandates, innovative undergraduate and graduate coursework and field experiences, implementation of EdTPA, and the National Core Arts Standards.
1:15-2:00 PM 18
ABA Performance Session - Montgomery Performing Arts Center Grissom High School Symphonic Band II - Theo Vernon, Conductor
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