Guitars in the Classroom

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Guitars in the Classroom
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Train a Teacher Inspire a Generation!
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• This school year, GITC is
• Reaching Over 3000 Classroom Teachers
• Reaching Over 200,000 Students

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Carol Bronson with GITC-Michigan

• We provide curriculum, songbooks hand-outs that
  make learning fast, easy and fun!

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• Theres
• no experience
• necessary!
• EVERYONE
• has music inside.
• (We love shower singers!)

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Teachers begin playing with guitars
tuned Hawaiian- style. Just strum
down and youre making music.
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If you can wiggle one finger you can play
guitar.
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Most songs for the classroom only take two
fingers to play.
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Even if teachers dont have time to practice,
they get better every week. Our mottoJust
Show Up!
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And lessons are ongoing

• Anyone working with children
• in an educational setting
• can join a regional GITC class!

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Here are some examples of songs that are
already helping hundreds of GITC-trained
teachers enrich and reinforce social studies
lessons in accordance with the national
standards
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Simple GiftsWhen Johnny Comes Marching HomeThe
Battle of New OrleansThis Land is Your
LandShenandoahSweet Betsy from PikeThe Ballad
of John HenryThe TitanicFollow the Drinking
GourdOh FreedomThe Farmer is the ManBlowing in
the WindWe Shall Overcome
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And Science Songs.Dirt Made My LunchThis
Pretty PlanetSomeones Gonna Use it After
YouThem BonesMy Roots Go Down to the EarthThe
Green Grass Grew All AroundTheres a Hole in the
BucketWhat Have They Done to the RainInch by
Inch, Row by RowThe Banana Boat Song
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Language Arts SongsApples and Bananas(vowel
sounds)Down By the Bay(rhymes)When I First
Came to this Land (stories)I Wanna Be a
Dog(humor)Fooba Wooba John(vowel sounds,
rhymes) Math Songs Five Little
Pumpkins(counting)Inchworm (addition)
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What do teachers learn from participating in GITC?

• To confidently lead students In song using a
  guitar
• To choose integrate songs into lessons and
  transitions as well as artistic activities
  assemblies
• To facilitate song lyric-writing with students
  (extension of language arts) on a variety of
  topics.

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To help all styles of learners focus and succeed!

• Singing and strumming captures the full attention
  of kinesthetic and auditory learners! It also
  helps predominantly visual learners stretch!

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To facilitate high yield learningduring music
times

• Social/Emotional Development
• Self Control
• Listening Skills
• Cooperation
• Creative Risk-Taking
• Leadership
• Self-Esteem
• Boosts Motivation

• Cognitive Process Acadmic Learning
• Memorization
• Sequential Info
• Parts to Whole Thinking
• Whole to Parts Thinking
• Personal Relevance
• Auditory Learning
• Auditory Sequential Memory
• Kinesthetic Learning

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To inspire teach English Language
Learnerswith songs in English Spanish
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• Some Simple Facts
• 95 of GITC Teachers are first-time players. Many
  are self-conscious singers in the beginning.
• 73 borrow a guitar from GITC.
• These guitars are supplied for Teacher
  credentialing programs by the Godin Guitar
  Company of Canada.

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• Student Teachers who join up with GITC receive
  the added benefit of becoming part of
  a national group of teachers
  who are already strumming and singing in their
  classrooms. GITC Teachers love to share ideas!

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Best of All?

• GITC is FREE to Educators!

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Free Music Guitar Lessons For Teachers!

• Guitars in the Classroom (GITC), a non-profit
  organization, brings guitar classes to teaching
  professionals. All you need is a great attitude!
  The classes are designed for those that want to
  learn how to play and sing and use these basics
  in the classroom. Instruction is targeted to the
  absolute beginner.

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Who funds GITC Teacher Credentialing
Classes?GITC Instruction is being provided to
student teachers training on college campuses as
part of a teacher credentialing programby Mr.
John DAddario Jr.of DAddario Strings
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All other supplies are generously donated by
these sponsors

• NAMM, The International Music Products
  Association
• GAMA, Guitar and Accessories Marketing
  Association
• The Guitar Center Music Foundation
• The Milagro Foundation
• American Sejung Corporation
• Boss
• DAddario Strings
• Dunlop Manufacturing

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Hal Leonard Corporation Levys Leathers MBT
Musicorp The Martin Guitar Company Planet
Waves Renaissance Guitar Company Roland
Corporation U.S. Samick Music Corp. String Letter
Publishing Vanguard Records
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For more information, please visit us online at
www.guitarsintheclassroom.com