Teaching Jazz Chants to Young learners
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With Carolyn Graham
pronunciation
classroom techniques
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Table of Contents
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Foreword
About This Teacher Training Video And Manual
This manual accompanies the video Teaching Jazz Chants® to Young Learners which demonstrates the techniques employed by the creator of Jazz Chants®, Carolyn Graham, in teaching English to non-native speakers. The video is meant to be a supplement to regular classroom teaching material. It can be used with any age or level of language learner, but the target audience is English language teacher-trainers or teachers of young children. In this manual we refer to the teachers as “participants” since they are participating in a teacher-training session. The videotape is 27 minutes long.
In the video, Carolyn Graham first introduces jazz chant methodology to English language teachers in a training session, instructing and practicing along with them. She then models the chants in the teachers’ classrooms with their students. Finally, the English language teachers adapt and create new chants with their students in their classrooms.
We suggest that you—the teacher trainer—plan for a training session of about two hours (see Appendix 1 for suggested plan). In that period of time, the participants will have time to learn and practice some jazz chants, discuss the technique, create their own new chants, and demonstrate their chants to each other.
This manual is divided into the following sections for each part of the video:
Synopsis
Main Points and Video Examples
Extended Activities
The sections called “Main Points and Video Examples” repeat and emphasize what is demonstrated in the video, while the sections called “Extended Activities” give suggestions of additional activities that you might do if it is appropriate for the participants or for their students.
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