SKU: GI.G-9932
Composed by Heidi Nelson
and Jacob Prosek. Music
Education. 210 pages. GIA
Publications #9932.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9932).
ISBN
9781622773787.
The
number of
Spanish-speaking students
in the United States
continues to grow
dramatically, leaving
many English-speaking
teachers—especiall
y music
teachers—searching
for tools to effectively
bridge the communication
gap. In Spanish for Music
Teachers, authors Jacob
Prosek and Heidi Nelson
draw from their studies
abroad and years of
classroom experience to
present practical,
ready-to-use strategies,
vocabulary, repertoire,
and reproducible
materials for K–12
music educators who serve
English Language Learner
(ELL) populations. The
authors provide an
overview of ELL
instruction, including
insights into ELL
terminology and an
explanation of the ELL
program models present in
schools today. They also
recommend
easy-to-implement ELL
strategies that will
significantly improve the
music classroom
for all students.
Throughout the book,
teachers will find
hundreds of practical
Spanish words and
phrases—alongside
their English
translations—that
cover everything from
specific musical terms
and instructions to basic
conversational Spanish.
Additionally, Prosek and
Nelson provide bilingual
vocabulary cards
ready-made for
photocopying and
convenient templates of
bilingual letters to send
home. The authors also
dedicate three chapters
to selecting repertoire
with the ELL student in
mind. Prosek and Nelson
discuss how to choose
linguistically and
culturally diverse songs,
and they include a
carefully selected list
of fifteen Spanish songs
and fifteen English
songs—complete
with music notation,
teaching suggestions, and
translations—to
put to use in the
classroom right away.
Designed for music
teachers with any level
of experience with
Spanish, Spanish for
Music Teachers is the
perfect music curriculum
companion. This
much-needed resource
equips teachers with the
practical tools to
immediately make a
significant and lasting
impact on all students.
Jacob Prosek is a
general music teacher and
choir conductor in
Lombard, Illinois,
and Heidi Nelson is
a fourth grade Spanish
Dual Language teacher in
Naperville, Illinois.