Creative Ideas for Choir Leaders

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR CHOIR LEADERS

Know Your Children • Stay current. Read, listen, watch resources to help you learn. • Observe others who have experience with children. Learn from them. • Take note of children around you, their habits, their likes and dislikes. • Evaluate and choose the best and most appropriate experiences for your children. • Pray for God’s guidance as you prepare to minister to children.

Plan and Organize • Plan early-arriver and activity groups. • Include spiritual nurture, worship, vocal warm-ups, singing skills, familiar material, performance skills, body energizers, new materials, musicianships skills, and fun in the choral rehearsal.

Listening Strategies for Teaching Songs • Listen for specific textual content. • Listen for specific rhythmic characteristics or patterns. • Listen for specific melodic characteristics or patterns. • Listen for the identical, similar and different phrases. • Identify the word on which the melody stops. • Listen as melody is sung or played and lip sync” words (magic lips).

Singing and Speaking Strategies for Teaching Songs • Echo speak phrases of text. • Echo sing melody on neutral syllables (loo, doot, bah). • Echo sing melodic syllables (solfége). • Echo sing phrases of text. • Sing or speak in question and answer style, or isolated patterns or phrases.

Terry D. Taylor, Managing Editor, www.Growing-in-Grace.com [email protected] Moving Strategies for Teaching Songs • Pat, clap, or step the beat. • Conduct the meter. • Sing solfége using the body scale or hand signs. • Sing and draw phrases in the air, or with scarves. • Create motions to illustrate text, phrases, or melodic direction.

Reading Strategies for Teaching Songs • Read and speak rhythm syllables. • Play “Which phrase did you hear” game while looking at notation. • Read silently, developing inner hearing.

Evaluating Your Rehearsal and Sharpening Your Teaching Skills • Did you speak clearly? • Did the choir sing unaccompanied sometimes? • Did you call each child by name? • Did you communicate encouragement through smiles and eye contact? • Did you use a variety of accompaniments for the choir? • Did you acknowledge appropriate behavior more than negative behavior? • Did you vary the inflection and tempo of your voice? • Did your body language communicate the mood and style of the music? • Did you know the music well before presenting it to the children? • Did you move smoothly through transitions from song to song? • Did you hear each child sing alone? • Were your comments mostly positive?

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reading, computer games, writing, puzzles, problem spelling, solving, thinking listening games to words

Plays with Nature Plays with Music outdoors, music, animals, rhymes, plants, using singing, natural playing materials instruments

Plays with Movement Plays with Images sports, visual dance, art, motor painting, skills drawing, building,

Plays with Others

Plays Alone enjoys presenting, enjoys social and independent group projects, activities, works leader well alone

choosy adj. Careful in choosing; committed to excellence

Text Is the text true? Does it present age-appropriate theology? Is the text worthy of staying in the child's memory bank for a lifetime? Does the text offer opportunities for spiritual growth and "teachable moments?" Does the text have rhyming patterns that will aid memorization? Does the text avoiding excessive symbolism or abstract concepts?

Melody Will the melody encourage singing in the head tone? Is the range of the melody age-appropriate? Does the melody have lots of repeated pitches or descending patterns which may encourage flatting? In what range do most of the notes lie (the tessitura)? Are most notes midrange? Does the melody complement the mood of the text? Does the melody offer opportunities for rise and fall of a phrase? Does the melody offer opportunities for children to be expressive and experience excellent musicianship? Will the song encourage good vocal habits? Does the melody place appropriate vowels in ranges where they can be sung with beauty? Is the melody memorable and engaging? Does the melody have good voice leading, avoiding awkward intervals? Where are the half-steps? Where and how are fa and ti used in the melody? Does the melody provide variety without having tricky similarities?

Rhythm Do the rhythms fit the natural inflections of the words? Are the syncopations natural, and seem to fit and flow?

© Copyright 2014 Celebrating Grace, Inc. All rights reserved. Accompaniment Does the accompaniment complement the mood of the melody and text? Does the accompaniment support the melody at the beginning of the song, and in other strategic areas? Does the accompaniment support harmony parts? Does the accompaniment "do its job" with the fewest notes possible? Does the texture support without being overpowering? Is this anthem within the ability of my accompanist? Will you use taped accompaniment? How will taped accompaniment impact the quality of the singing?

Harmony/Part Singing Is the harmony optional, or is it vital to the success of the song? How difficult is the harmony to learn and sing with the melody? (Parts like ostinati and rounds are easiest, and parallel thirds and sixths are the most difficult.)

Form Is the form clear and logical? How does the form impact the ease or difficulty of learning and memorizing the song?

Overall.... Does the song offer rhythmic vitality and interest? Does the song avoid excessive chromaticism? Is there a passage in the song that offers the children a break from singing, to rest vocally and gather their thoughts? Will the song be easiest caught or taught? How does this song fit the ability of my choir? What will be the primary challenge of the song? What will be a greatest value and reward of the song? Will the song allow you to teach musicianship? Will the song enrich the worship of the congregation? What is the dominant musical feature of the song? Melody, rhythm, harmony, form, text, other? Are you enthused about the song? Has it captured your imagination and the imagination of the children? Does the song offer something intangible or unique? In what ways can I make this song appealing to multiple learning styles and modes? Will this song grow with time, or will everyone be tired of it by the third rehearsal?

Make Discipline a Team Effort Use Seating Assignments • Discuss your classroom management • Use a seating chart as a part of your expectations with your co-workers, so classroom management. Allow plenty of everyone can respond consistently. space between seats. Move a child when necessary. Engage Children from the Beginning • Plan activities for children who arrive Create Purposeful Space early to focus attention. • Make sure your rehearsal space is attractive, well-lit, and well-ventilated to Maintain a Balanced Pace promote successful rehearsals. • A rehearsal that is too slowly paced will foster restlessness. If the pace is too Cooperate with Parents fast, children can become hyper. Use a • In a caring, loving manner, ask a parent purposeful pace to maintain interest and or guardian for information. Your gentle, control. concerned approach will offer valuable insight, and let the parent know of your Have a Recovery Plan appreciation for their child. • When chaos erupts, have a activity or signal that will refocus attention. Praise Often • Praise should be immediate, specific, Use Humor and sincere. • Healthy laughter can ease many awkward moments, but avoid ridicule Be Positive and sarcasm. Laugh at yourself! Take • A misbehaving child is a discouraged your work seriously, but don’t take child. Demonstrate Christ-like love. yourself too seriously. Evaluate your tone of voice and non- verbal signals. Do they affirm children? Make Big Projects Seem Small Do you smile? Ask a trusted friend to • Present big projects in small segments help you evaluate your approach with so children are not overwhelmed. Give children. children opportunities to achieve many small successes. Keep Cool • Do not take bad behavior personally. Ignore Some Behaviors Be consistent. We all have undisciplined • Use your intuition to determine when areas in our lives. you should let a situation run its course. Sometimes, a child just needs a little Pray attention. Ignore the action, and offer • Pray for your choir children. Pray for some positive attention. sensitivity to understand your children and relate to them redemptively. Pray Explain Why that each rehearsal will be orderly, well- • Help children understand the purpose of disciplined, and affirming. an activity. Sometimes, children may not understand why something is worthwhile.

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