Course Number: 2001400





Goal:
To train the course participants in child-centred, holistic methods of creative education in the areas of
Musical Education - Dance / Rhythm - Art
 
Course participants should be able to implement, in an interdisciplinary manner, holistic working methods, which take into account distinct regional features. The participant should also be in a position to help the children in his or her care, make decisions, learn to foresee the consequences of their actions and accept and carry them out in a socially acceptable manner.
 
We take the music, art and dance media as a basis and develop completely holistic methods of creative education in accordance with the latest findings.
 
Target Group:

• Nursery school teachers
• Primary school teachers
• Music school teachers
• Art school teachers
• Ballet or dancing school teachers
• Interested people over the age of 18

Duration:
On-going training course for 8 months, comprising of approx. 200 lessons (of 45 minutes each) over 8 weekends
 
Location: Gera - Langenberg
 
Certificate:
Diploma in Creative Education or Certificate of Attendance
 
Seminar Topics:

• Musical Education:
  Improvisation, harmony, song accompaniment, singing, voice training, theory of music, listening training, methods of song arrangement and interpretation, fundamentals of the theory of teaching music
   
  
• Dance:
  Interpretation of movement, improvisation, pantomime, contact games, perceptive dances, circular dances, meditative dances, expressive dances, fundamentals of rhythm
   
  
• Art:
  Painting and creative techniques, methods of arrangement for collage, colour, painting, graphics, sculpture and appreciation of art
   
  
• Fundamentals of Learning Psychology:
  What is creativity? Creativity as seen by various schools of psychology. Creativity and intelligence. Motivation for creativity. The creative process. Encouraging creativity.
   
  
• Holistic Working:
  From the intensification of perception through the linking-up of the senses to an increase in expressiveness
   
  

Working Methods Employed:
in the course: plenary sessions, work in small groups, individual work, literature
at home: study of literature, keeping an educational diary
 
Requirements for Admission to the Diploma
Examination:

• Completed training in education / teaching
• Children's nurses with reservations
• Or: work at a music, art or ballet school
• Elementary instrumental skills (You are used to using a musical instrument, e.g. accordion, recorder, guitar, keyboards, piano, etc., in your work with children.)
• Every week you have the opportunity to translate the topics learned into practice. (Unless you are already working in a teaching sector you must work in a corresponding facility for at least one hour as practical training, and unpaid, as required.)
• Participation in all seminar activities
• Delivery of the seminar paper in due course
• Delivery, on time, of at least six reports of your practical tests, in each of the three major subjects
• Payment of the seminar and examination fees when due

Examination:
The examination consists of three parts, each in a different subject.

• Seminar paper
• Practical teaching session with participants
• Colloquium

The candidate may assign the subjects to the individual parts of the examination.
 
Registration:
in writing up to 10. December 2004