Hi all, Christopher here.
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One of the raps on Kodály-inspired teaching is that it can
be rigid. People think that there is
some prescribed method that dictates exactly what you have to teach and when
you have to teach it.
Not true.
The reality is that while Kodály-inspired teaching is
methodological and sequential, it doesn’t come in a one-size-fits-all
package. Every teacher has to take the
overall principles and apply them to their own setting.
For me, what that means is that each year, I re-visit my
teaching sequence in the fall, when I am doing my long-term planning (see
this link for a description of one way to do yearly planning). Lately, my basic sequence of teaching rhythmic elements has been something like the following:
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