If you wish to learn more about one of Dr. Feierabend’s programs in a more thorough way, you can take one of the 3 different courses offered by FAME. Each course is 24 (or more) hours and usually takes 1-2 weeks to complete. Upon completion, you will have a much better grasp on the “how’s and why’s” of using Dr. Feierabend’s materials in your own classroom. The courses are led by Dr. Feierabend or one of our Endorsed Teacher Trainers and take place around the US as well as internationally. Here are the 3 available levels of FAME certification:

1.   First Steps in Music for Infants and Toddlers
2.  First Steps in Music
2. Conversational Solfege I & 2
3. Conversational Solfege Upper Levels

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For more information on Graduate Credit opportunities, more information coming soon!

Once you have successfully completed all three courses and have received your certificates, you are considered fully certified in the Feierabend Approach. After you have completed three years of teaching following your last FAME certification course, you may apply to become a FAME Endorsed Teacher Trainer.

For more information on applying to become a FAME Endorsed Teacher Trainer, please click here.

 

First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond provides activities for children as young as three but appropriate for any aged child that needs to further develop their tuneful, beatful, and artful abilities. Folk songs and rhymes as well as classical music are the primary source materials that are used to develop their musical minds and abilities.
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Conversational Solfege™ is a pedagogical method to be used with children who have already developed their tuneful, beatful, and artful skills and are ready to develop a deeper understanding of melody and rhythm. Conversational Solfege™ develops an understanding of music through the use of rhythm syllables and solfege syllables at a conversational level, then gradually evolves into traditional notation. Through carefully sequenced activities, Conversational Solfege™ enables students to joyfully assimilate the skills and content necessary to be musically literate. Through various techniques, Conversational Solfege™ allows the acquisition of musical reading and writing, dictation, improvisation, and composition in an intuitive manner. This course is applicable to general music, choral, and instrumental teachers.
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Conversational Solfege™ Upper Levels further explores the development of music literacy through analyzing songs and creating a sequence of learning based on song content and skill development. Strategies include listening, reading, writing, writing lesson plans, and establishing yearly goals and an introduction of how to teach harmonic function in major and minor tonalities as they apply to improvisation and composition. This course is applicable to upper elementary general music, as well as middle school and high school choral, and instrumental teachers.
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