Break Forth and Sing with Joy Presenter: Sara Goodman
Expand your musical repertoire and group management techniques with tips from this fast-paced music workshop. During the session will discuss the following questions: What works and doesn't work in music class in the religious school setting? What are the joys and frustrations that come with teaching music? What musical selections work well with different ages? Participants will leave this session ready to begin a new year of engaging students in the joy of singing. This session is designed for music teachers, as well as teachers who love to incorporate song into their teaching.
Sara Goodman is the music director and Hebrew specialist at Congregation Hakafa in Glencoe, IL, where she has worked for 26 years. She teaches private Hebrew lessons and also tutors bar and bat mitzvah students. For the last 10 years Sara has been directing the music and t'filah program at Ramah Day Camp in Wheeling, IL. She has a degree in anthropology, with a minor in art, from Northeastern Illinois University. Sara's camp experience includes 11 years at OSRUI as a camper and then as a counselor. She also spent seven years at Camp Shorashim in Israel: as a camper, a counselor, and then as the art director (yes, she is also an artist!) and music director. Sara is a Hebrew and Jewish music teacher at Chicago Jewish Day School, where she has worked for five years. Sara lives in Skokie with her husband Dan Meir and they have 8 children between them; Aviv (17), Elan (15), Ahava (13), and Abir (12), Jonathan (18) and Amanya (15), Arielle (24) and Avital (21). PHEW!!!
