Nisha Heath is director of World Beat Learning, a company that assists music teachers to integrate world music into their curriculum, and provides quality teaching resources to generalist and specialist teachers alike. She is the author of the Tapas Series, consisting of six booklets of lesson plans (P-2, 3&4, 5&6, 7&8, 9&10) linking practical activities with music appreciation, each with accompanying CDs of world music recordings. Nisha was Head of Junior School Music at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School from 1999 – 2004, and continues to teach classroom music part time in Melbourne schools for The Song Room.

World Music Activities for the Classroom

Session Abstract

Nisha will help teachers to “warm up” by singing through some catchy African and Latin American musical refrains with them. She will then demonstrate some ways in which teachers can integrate quality musical recordings with practical activities to enhance students’ appreciation of world music, using examples from Paraguay and Crete. The session will finish with an overview of some texts, recordings and web-sites that can be useful resources for the classroom music teacher.