About Mrs. Holtz
What is Kodály? A research-based method of teaching music literacy. |
Kodály is the education of the ear, mind, hands, and heart.
It is the language of the mind and the heart. This language develops musical literacy, sequential learning, conscience knowledge, represents many cultures, and uses folk and art music of intrinsic value. It makes an art of teaching. It builds learning, literacy, and life skills. It teaches creative and innovative thinking through music. It allows the child to become a musician capable of reading, writing, improvising, and performing music at a high level. It promotes individual confidence in expression and independence within the framework of group responsibility in a nurturing environment. It challenges the gifted and encourages the weak to risk participation and overcome fear of failure. It cultivates the next generation of leaders through a community of learners, creative thinkers, composers, and stewards of cultural heritage from one grade level to the next.
It teaches students to see music when they hear it and makes music learning fun.
My goal is to positively influence, educate, and enrich children's lives through music. I aim to develop their musical literacy while helping to instill a sincere love of music that will serve them the rest of their lives.
It is the language of the mind and the heart. This language develops musical literacy, sequential learning, conscience knowledge, represents many cultures, and uses folk and art music of intrinsic value. It makes an art of teaching. It builds learning, literacy, and life skills. It teaches creative and innovative thinking through music. It allows the child to become a musician capable of reading, writing, improvising, and performing music at a high level. It promotes individual confidence in expression and independence within the framework of group responsibility in a nurturing environment. It challenges the gifted and encourages the weak to risk participation and overcome fear of failure. It cultivates the next generation of leaders through a community of learners, creative thinkers, composers, and stewards of cultural heritage from one grade level to the next.
It teaches students to see music when they hear it and makes music learning fun.
My goal is to positively influence, educate, and enrich children's lives through music. I aim to develop their musical literacy while helping to instill a sincere love of music that will serve them the rest of their lives.
"I am a strong advocate of the importance of approaching learning as a process, not a product. In music especially, the process becomes the product. A process-oriented approach must be thorough, effective, thought-provoking, enlightening, expressive, and above all creative. Music is designed to be innately enjoyable. It is incumbent upon us as teachers of music to amplify that joy!" ~ Eugene Corporon