Strengths, Skills and Requirements for Kindermusik Fundamentals Training

Music Strengths

• Ability to learn and sing on pitch short songs of various styles without musical accompaniment. While many of the songs in Kindermusik’s repertoire are familiar (25%), some are new, but easy to learn (55%), and a small portion are more challenging with complex melodies (20%).
• Ability to sing in the appropriate range and with a light, high voice quality suitable for young children.
• Ability to maintain a steady beat and move expressively to music.
• A natural sense of musicianship.

Teaching Skills

• Embrace a passion and respect for the child newborn through seven years.
• Exhibit a commitment to the development of the whole child (physical, social, language, emotional and cognitive development) through music.
• Maintain an energy level sufficient for leading 30 – 60 minute classes. You will move, sing, interact, play, lead and follow!
• Communicate and effectively interact with parents and other adults who are involved in classes and vitally important to the life and development of a child.

Requirements

• Maintain a valid email address and internet access – so that you can complete Kindermusik training and fully benefit from the support, personal communication and teaching tools the Kindermusik community provides.
• Adhere to your Kindermusik License Agreement.
• Require that every family enrolled in Kindermusik purchase from you a set of Kindermusik At-Home Materials.
• Use the Kindermusik materials exclusively for Kindermusik classes. These specially designed lesson plans and recordings are not to be used in other instructional settings.
• Manage your own business with wonderful support tools; Success Path, online training webinars and UK Seminars

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