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This workshop is commissioned by National Arts Council.
Agoo is a West African word from Ghana that means “to pay attention, or listen.” It is a call for attention. Amee is a response to Agoo. It means, “You have my attention.”
This call and response can be used in different situations and for several purposes, including classroom management and gross motor coordination skill-building. Call and response corresponds to the pattern in human communication and is found in many traditions. In West African cultures, call and response is a pervasive pattern of democratic participation in public gatherings as well as in vocal and instrumental musical expression. In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first.
This workshop offers early childhood educators to look at how “call and response” enhance emergent literacy, language concepts and foster skills such as memory, concentration, listening, math concepts, patterning, sequence and symmetry.
Goal: To enable participants to use carefully selected call and response techniques and experiences to engage children and enhance their emergent literacy and language concepts and other developmental skills.
Conducted by: Kofi Dennis, Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist
Recommended for: Arts Educators and Early Childhood Educators
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Date: Friday, 10 May 2019
Time: 9am to 12pm
Fee: $10
Venue: Music Studio 1, #01-02
Aliwal Arts Centre
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Click here to register a spot for the workshop. Please email learning@srt.com.sg or call 6221 5585 for enquiries.
About Kofi Dennis
Kofi Dennis has been a Master Teaching Artist with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts since 1998. As a professional percussionist and storyteller, Kofi provides Arts Integrated classroom residencies and professional development workshops in music and creative drama for early childhood educators both locally, nationally and internationally.
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts—the flagship education program of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts—supports over 75,000 children and early childhood educators across the nation and around the world.
Arts integration can inspire children with a lifelong love of learning and of the performing arts. When you bring the arts into the classroom, you create joyful, active learning experiences that engage children in ways that can increase academic and social-emotional development for all kinds of learners.
Wolf Trap Institute’s professional development empowers infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten teachers to integrate the performing arts into their classrooms. For more than 35 years, Wolf Trap has worked with early childhood educators to provide the training and tools they need to use the arts to teach and inspire.
“The Wolf Trap method is the golden key to engaging a child’s curiosity and imagination in a focused, fresh, and fun manner.”
- Joy Jimenez, Wolf Trap Teaching Artist, San Antonio, TX
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