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GIML is pleased to announce the following dates and locations for the Summer 2026 Professional Development Levels Courses.
Quarterly Workshop
In this workshop, we will explore a roadmap for general music and choral teachers who are striving to help their students learn to audiate harmonically and express their own ideas through improvisation. Participants will engage in carefully sourced lesson plans rooted in a sequential model (resting tone, audiation, chord roots by rote and audiation, harmonic audiation, and improvising over harmonies, then chord roots), its application to major and minor tonality with tonic and dominant functions, the addition of subdominant functions, and supplemental materials, including harmonic tapestries and folk/popular music. Teachers also will explore ways of improving their own improvisation skills.
Upcoming Faculty Hangouts
Join GIML faculty member Natasha Sigmund on January 12th from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET, for Improvising In and Out of Context: Ways to Respond to Music Babble.
Join GIML faculty member Sarah Boyd on February 8th from 4:00-5:00pm ET to explore the Music Moves for Two book from the Music Moves for Piano series.
Join GIML faculty member Carin McEvoy on March 8th from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm ET.
Join GIML faculty member Andy Mullen on April 26th from 7:00-8:00pm ET for Rhythm Sequencing in the Secondary Ensemble.
Upcoming Quarterly Workshops
Join Sharon Saul for an Instrumental Online Workshop on February 28th, 2026, from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET.
Carol Gordon Professional Development Scholarship
The Carol Gordon Professional Development Scholarship was created by GIML to honor Carol
Goodridge Beccue Gordon’s contributions to Music Learning Theory. The purpose of this
scholarship is to advance the mission of GIML through supporting university faculty interested
in learning more about Gordon’s Music Learning Theory and incorporating it into their
teaching of future music educators.
Eligibility
1. Must be a college/university music faculty teaching early childhood/general music,
instrumental or piano pedagogy, or choral methods courses within a music education
program.
2. Must be a first-time attendee of a GIML Professional Development Levels Course
(PDLC).
3. Must submit completed application form along with one-page narrative statement.
Information about GIML PDLCs and specific dates/locations can be found on the GIML
website. If you have questions or would like more information about GIML PDLCs and/or the scholarship, please contact the GIML Professional Development Commission at professionaldevelopment@giml.org.
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