Music Count Us In
Welcome to Music Count Us In - 2011
| Music Count Us In gives principals, teachers, parents and students an opportunity to collectively celebrate music education. Music Count Us In involves whole school communities and culminates with the National Song Day on 1st September when students and teachers from across the nation sing one song together. Last year, this national initiative involved more than 500,000 students, teachers and parents from 1600 schools - double the number that had participated previously. HOW TO REGISTERSchools can register for one of our professional learning video conferences to support teachers with teaching the song in their classroom. Both courses are FREE. View our promotional PDF to learn more about each of the professional learning courses. |
We are encouraging schools to submit an expression of interest (EOI) for the whole school staff to attend the 1-hour video conference as part of your weekly staff meeting.
DOWNLOAD the EOI to register your school.
Once you have submitted an EOI for your school, each teacher is required to visit MyPL@DET to register for the appropriate Staters or Continuers course. Both of these courses are registered with the NSW Institute of Teachers as 3-hour courses. Please note, each course includes pre and post video conference activities.
Teachers can use the following links to register on MyPL@DET:
PLEASE NOTE ALL VIDEO CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. IF YOU ARE A TEACHER FROM A SCHOOL WHO HAS ALREADY BOOKED THE WHOLE STAFF FOR A VIDEO CONFERENCE VIA AN EXPERSSION OF INTEREST, PLEASE CONTINUE THE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR THE DATE YOUR SCHOOL HAS BOOKED.
REGISTER ON THE OFFICIAL MUSIC COUNT US IN SITE:
Teachers who have enrolled in one of our 2011 video conferences, are also encouraged to register on the Music Count Us In site in order to receive updates and gain access to further resources to support the National Song Day on 1 September.
Other Music Count Us In resources
The following movie clips and PDFs were created to support teachers participating in the Music Count Us In (MCUI) 2009 program.
The movie clips demonstrate a process and provide strategies that teachers can use for teaching a new song to their students. In the clips, Margie Moore - one of our MCUI presenters, is recorded as she teaches the 2009 song The Music is Everything to a group of teachers in NSW during one of our first video conferences for the program in 2009.
The PDFs include support materials such as lyric sheets that can be used to support strategies suggested in the movie clips.
Click on each of the following links to view the movie clip. You may need to download QuickTime to view the clips.
Download QuickTime
Teaching the CHORUS
Adding body percussion to the CHORUS
Adding percussion instruments to the CHORUS
Adding percussion instruments and body percussion to the CHORUS
Reasons for adding accompaniment to the CHORUS
Looking at the STRUCTURE of the song
Unpacking the STRUCTURE of The Music is Everything
Teaching the PRE-CHORUS
Adding actions to the PRE-CHORUS
Joining the PRE-CHORUS to the CHORUS
Teaching the VERSES
The song so far
Sing the whole song from the Introduction to the end of the 2nd Chorus
Teaching the BRIDGE
Demonstrate singing the BRIDGE
Sing both sections of the BRIDGE
Approaches to teaching a new song
Teaching strategies for teaching a new song
The Music is Everything lyrics
The Music is Everything Chord chart
The Music is Everything Piano chart
The Music is Everything Classroom activity kit
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