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If we could harness this energy and this expertise
and identify these people nationally,
they could work immediately with teachers in classrooms.
So we can employ these people as mentors
so if I go in to the classroom, work with the classroom
teacher, reignite in the classroom teacher
the capacity to sing and the capacity
to sing with the children, reignite in the teacher
the idea that he or she can teach so many aspects of music,
even though they may not be musically trained.
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What I'm hoping this program will achieve
is that every child in Australia will have access
to quality music education.
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I've got so many great ideas now that I
don't have to go searching.
I've got it, boom.
Throughout the music mentoring program,
I've not just learned how to teach it
to kids which was one of the main things,
but actually how to develop those skills
in a sequenced order.
It's more explicit and in depth.
And that's it for me because then I
have gained a better knowledge.
I can teach the kids so they're not missing out on anything.
It's about singing.
It's about music literacy, the reading and writing
music, and the inventing of music, the composing of music.
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It was really, really important for our ESL children
to have this exposure.
Because we found that children who came to us,
and we had a number of new arrivals
with no English whatsoever, they actually
felt comfortable to use their vocal chords
in this environment.
And they had a go at English words singing them
where I would never attempt them to just make them.
Structured music education with singing,
music literacy has an impact on all learning, particularly
literacy and numeracy.
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It's good having each other to bounce off
each other in the classroom.
I suppose we're not overly confident with singing.
So it's nice to have that support
and bounce off each other.
So we definitely have developed musical knowledge
which is good.
We feel a lot more comfortable in teaching it to our own class
and hopefully extending that to the stage as well.
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Working with those teachers to help those students
be successful in everyday learning in the classroom
not just in music.
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[CHILDREN SINGING]
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Music education is vital in the early years of a child's life.
Twinkle, twinkle,
Little star,
How I wonder,
What you are.
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