BCMA FALL CONFERENCE
Friday October 23, 2020
Fall 2016 Conference - Friday October 21, 2016
Promoting Peace From Within
KEY NOTE SPEAKER:
Shelley Murley - Sing Peace Around The World
Shelley is a musician, composer, public speaker, Montessori teacher and most importantly, a pancake-flipping mother of five. She studied music at the University of British Columbia and graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in piano performance. Her endeavors to bring music into the classroom has been her passion since the day she graduated from Montessori training twenty years ago. Shelley developed training programs for Montessori teachers to learn some of the basics of music in rhythm, instruments, composers, and music history. She produced a simple music manual to help teachers with no formal musical training bring music into the daily classroom experience. Shelley composed three albums of beautiful children's music designed for young children to learn basic concepts quickly and used in the Montessori classroom. "Quick little songs to help little ears learn lickety-split". In 2008, Shelley came up with the idea of writing a song about peace and sharing it with the entire world so that children everywhere could sing together and Sing Peace Around the World was born. The song was given to Montessori teachers in over 80 countries and sung by over 65,000 children to help celebrate the United Nation's Day of Peace. The song begins on the shores of New Zealand and travels from school to school and country to country until it finally reaches the shores of the Hawaiian Islands 24 hours later. This year Shelley has returned to the UN project and Sing Peace is set to be sung by children in every time zone across the planet on September 21st by over 75,000 children and counting! www.singpeacearoundtheworld.com
KEY NOTE ADDRESS: “The Power Of Peace” - with Shelley Murley
8:45am - 10:00am
In an ever-increasing conflicted world, we bear the responsibility as teachers to instill, teach and inspire peaceful hearts and minds in even our youngest students. Dr. Montessori addressed this responsibility very clearly when she said, "establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Establishing "lasting" peace is no doubt the goal of every Montessori teacher who signs up to educate our future generation. However, the reality of building a meaningful "peace curriculum" around the constantly demanding responsibilities of an average teacher can sometimes seem overwhelming and insurmountable. In 2009 and today in 2016, Sing Peace Around the World brings together a community of teachers around the globe that although don't share similar customs and language, share the noble desire to celebrate the ever-important concept of peace. Teachers in small rural African towns and large Metropolitan capital cities are sharing their successes and failures in bringing a peace curriculum to the classroom. We can learn so much from each other as we travel on this journey of establishing lasting peace for the students in our little corner of the world.
Afternoon Session: “Beethoven and the Binomial Cube” - with Shelley Murley
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Most people simply love music. We listen to it in our car, it accompanies our favourite movies and television programs, we cook, we clean and we dance to it, but when we go to work and school...most of us, turn it off. The scientific community has proven music's powerful effects on children's ability to focus, retain, facilitate multi-sensory learning, develop rapport, change brain wave states and energize listening and learning. (And this is the short list!) Yes, the sound cylinders, a few songs at circle-time and for a lucky few, the Montessori bells brings about a few musical moments for our children in the classroom. However, when music is integrated into more of the daily curriculum and work cycle, children can benefit immensely from it's far reaching and powerful attributes. Learn how to bring music into the daily life of the Montessori classroom with hands-on activities designed specifically with the Montessori child in mind.
GUEST SPEAKER:
Cathy Goss - The Virtues Project
Cathy Goss is an inspired and experienced Montessori directress who has been actively and joyfully involved in Montessori education as a parent, and preschool and elementary directress. She has presented successful workshops for the BCMA and school districts in this province and for the Canadian Association of Montessori Teachers in Ontario. She leads with the conviction that Montessori serves children, families and professionals in a rewarding, wonderful way. Cathy has given countless Parent Education Presentations to inspire and educate parents who discover what an opportunity Montessori is for their family. She is a Virtues Facilitator who meshes The Virtues Project with Montessori education at all age levels...yes, including adults! Trained in William Glasser’s Choice Theory, Cathy has learned how to ask the right questions to get what you want. Cathy gives workshops that are lively, fun, informative, and easy to implement!
Morning Session: “The Virtues Project” - with Cathy Goss
10:30am - 12:00pm
The Virtues Project™ is a global grassroots initiative to inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life, sparking a global revolution of kindness, justice, and integrity in more than 100 countries through Facilitators, Master Facilitators, Champions and Virtues Connections.
The Virtues Project empowers individuals to live more authentic meaningful lives, families to raise children of compassion and integrity, educators to create safe, caring, and high performing learning communities, and leaders to encourage excellence and ethics in the work place. It has inspired and mobilized people worldwide to commit acts of service and generosity, to heal violence with virtues.
The Five Strategies™ awaken the gifts of character, through inspiring programs, books, and materials that help us to remember who we really are and to live by our highest values.
The Virtues Project was founded in Canada in 1991 by Linda Kavelin-Popov, Dr. Dan Popov and John Kavelin. It was honored by the United Nations during the International Year of the Family as a "model global program for families of all cultures". www.virtuesproject.com
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VanDusen Gardens, 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC
V6M 4H1
Friday October 21 -2016
Doors Open at 8:00am