Zoë Austin – Music in the Early Years: examples of easy, effective, inclusive activities

Name: Zoë Austin – Music in the Early Years: examples of easy, effective, inclusive activities
Start: 2024-11-13T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-13T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Online webinar

Wednesday 13th Nov @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

£5

In this webinar, Zoë Austin will be exploring the importance of live interactive music-making in Early Years environments. She will also be equipping webinar attendees with practical musical ideas to support development of overall child well-being and in all areas of learning and development:

– Personal, social and emotional development (children discovering their place in the world and how they may relate to others);

– Physical development (which instruments and activities can help nurture fine and gross motor skills),

– Communication and language/Literacy/Mathematics (using song, Makaton, simple instructions etc.) – Understanding the world (exploring music and instruments from different cultures)

– Expressive Art and Design (children as young composers)

About the speaker

Zoë Austin is a freelance neurodivergent educator living in Cambridgeshire and working across East Anglia. She divides her time between providing group and individual music sessions, 1:1 tutoring for autistic/ADHD school-age children, mentoring autsitic/ADHD university students, and writing/presenting on the subjects of neurodiversity, child development, and music-making. Part of the Pen Green Schema Group, she contributed to the book Schemas in the Early Years (Routledge, 2022), and presented on ‘Schema theory and children’s emerging musicality’ at EECERA, 2023. Zoë uses her past experiences as a (Pen Green-trained) classroom teacher, Music Therapist and working in children’s social services to inform her position as a holistic practitioner, creating learning opportunities to meet the needs of the individual child as a whole person.