Sue Trainor

Sue comes to your early childhood school, library or community center  with her 45-minute interactive program of music and story, called "Good Vibrations Everywhere!" Each musical selection is lively, engaging and has a connection with children's learning. Sue will share the developmental and learning connections briefly so that families can put the ideas to work at home!

Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts   http://education.wolftrap.org

Young Audiences of Maryland   http://YAMD.org

Sue is a Master Teaching Artist, offering training and coaching to Teaching Artists through the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts and through Young Audiences of Maryland (YAMD). Sue also is available to coach TAs independently. Contact Sue at Sue.Trainor.Music@gmail.com to discuss your goals.

 In addition to the classroom work - which also is professional development - Sue offers several professional development workshops for teachers through Wolf Trap.  Visit the Wolf Trap website  to learn more about including Sue in your PD plans.

Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts   http://education.wolftrap.org

•  Early Arts Learning (EAL) Workshop:  Whether or not you've had a music lesson or feel comfortable singing, this workshop offers you the very basics for using musicality with young children. The words we all use to describe sound also describe elements of music - the vocabulary will be familiar. Learn how the elements of music and sound can be used with intention to meet early childhood classroom objectives, and add some repertoire to your musical tool box.  Up to 60-minutes; available in person or online.
• Great Musical Adaptations for Memorable Teaching and Smooth Transitions:  This workshop focuses on developing music strategies that are multi-sensory in order to address non-music objectives and to lead the strategies using best practices for singing with young children. Participants will gain an understanding of how beat, melody, and lyrics create focus, improve motivation, affect mood, and foster emergent literacy skills. Workshop repertoire can be targeted to a focus or topic of your choice, for example, STEM or Creative Curriculum themes. Available in person (up to 3 hours including small group work time), or as a 60-minute online workshop.

• AHA READING: Developing Artful Strategies to Create Prior Knowledge:  When adults read, we have lots of prior life experience that we bring to our experience of a story - perhaps we've had similar problems or we've visited a particular setting or we know a person with similar qualities. Young children don't have that experience. This workshop is designed to create prior knowledge about a key idea and supporting details in a story, deepening comprehension and ability to retell. Of course, the strategies we explore will be arts-based and multi-sensory! Available in person (up to 3 hours including small group work time).

• Developmentally Appropriate Song and Chant Repertoire: It's What You Do With It That Counts! Take a tour through Sue's thinking as she creates developmentally appropriate musical classroom lesson strategies. How you present a song or a chant is as important as which song is chosen for use with young children. We'll talk about a few things one might consider when choosing songs, but even more importantly, we'll talk about how we can adjust our song strategies to support developmental stages.  Available in person (up to 3 hours including small group work time),

• Making Music with Children Who Have Special Needs:  How do we adapt our strategies for songs and singing games to address various physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities? Principles of Universal Design will be discussed as they relate to planning music experiences for children. Participants will have the opportunity to develop creative new strategies for "music time" that accommodate a wide range of special needs and address variations in learning styles. Available in person (up to 3 hours including small group work time)

Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts   http://education.wolftrap.org