Finding Your Teacher Voice

How can you find your teaching voice? Whether you are an experienced singer or a “non-singing” instrumentalist who must teach choir, Finding Your Teacher Voice is a handy resource to help make rehearsals and classroom instruction successful! Even if your voice isn’t perfect, you can use your voice to train and inspire your students. Each chapter in this book offers strategies to achieve singing goals and provides exercises to teach skills such as posture, pitch, diction, and notation.

Contents

• Introduction/Acknowledgements

Prelude: Discovering the Singer Inside

• The Body Builds the Voice - Posture & Breathing
• Finding the Fun in Phonation - Exploring Vocal Play
• The Cathedral in Your Head - Refining Vocal Tone
• The Tip of the Tongue - Deciphering Diction
• Monkey Hear, Monkey Do - Vocal Modeling and Why It Matters
• The Psychologist Is In - Working with Beginning Singers

Intermezzo: THe Journey from Rehearsal to Performance

• The Three-Ring Circus - Managing the Choral Classroom
• Busy Bodies - Embodying Musical Concepts
• All Shapes and Sizes - Making the Most of Rehearsal Formation
• I Sing, You Sing - Teachign Songs by Rote
• Pulling It Off the Page - Transitioning to Score Reading
• Pitch Hitting - Solfege Strategies
• You Can't Stop the Beat - Everyday Rhythm Hacks
• How Do I Get There from Here? - Planning for Performance

Chorale: Priming Your Program for Success

• More Than Just Singing - Creating a a Choral Culture
• Picky, Picky - Choosing Repertoire
• Work Smarter, Not Harder - Getting the Most Out of Repertoire
• Rome Wasn't Built in a Day - Goal Setting, Growth, and Self-Care