Tonalis is playing an increasingly active role today in Music Education through offering flexible support to:
i) TEACHERS, ii) SCHOOLS, and iii) L.E.A. MUSIC SERVICES
in order to empower primary, instrumental and singing teachers to teach music more effectively.

The support ranges from:
Inset Training Days School Based Music/Singing Days
After School Sessions & Weekend Workshops to 1 Year Advisory Programmes.

Our In-service Days and Weekend Workshops Address a Wide Variety of Clients Needs
from:
seeking to develop their music teaching, voice skills and musicianship, etc.
to:
wanting to broaden their expertise, develop new skills and gain new perspectives.

They offer participants the opportunity to learn and practice new skills
- with the emphasis on effective teaching -
and are designed to empower teachers’ confidence in their musical self.

Our stunning repertoire of songs and instrumental pieces you will find are full of wonder and imagination,
with music of the highest quality drawn from both World and Western sources, from:




Just as significantly participants will have the opportunity to try out
the whole range of New Classroom Instruments Tonalis uses which are full of glorious colours and textures.
     





Explore the Role of Movement in Children’s Musical Development
from Hearing with the Ears to Listening with the Whole Body.
Young boy plays a Lur (wooden trumpet)
A New Guide for Charting a Journey of Discovery through Global Musics

How Social Ideals can Inspire A New Art of Musicing in Schools

Explore an Exciting Orchestra of Newly Designed Acoustic Classroom Instruments
from New Forms of Lyres, Bowed Psalteries and Flutes to Lap Xylophones & Gongs

Learn an Exciting Progression for Teaching Music Reading Creatively
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Explore Social Therapeutic Aspects of Group Music Making in Schools


Tune Music Education to Harmoniously Meet the Needs of
Children’s Innate Musical Development 		Hanging wood chimes & iron rods
 


A Modern and Creative Approach to Singing in Schools

Voices for Life - How to Help in the Birth of Healthy Adult Voices

Explore an Exciting Comprehensive New Approach
to Help Children Move Harmoniously into Singing in Parts
     
  
Integrate Visual, Aural, Movement
& Creative Learning into Song Teaching

Learn New Exciting Methods to Help Pupils who have been told they are either Tone-deaf, Can’t Carry a Tune, or Uncertain in their Pitch Matching, and transform these children's lack of vocal confidence into a life long love of singing.



Our In-service Days and Workshops are appropriate for participants with all levels of musical experience.
Clients find that they offer plenty of new ideas to encourage creative musicing with children
that they are thought provoking with a balance of
practical creative and informative teaching.

We hope you will feel excited about these Tonalis Music Education In-Service Days.
From our student feedback (see Testimonials) we are confident that participants will return to work and
life inspired to work confidently and professionally with creating the ‘Musical Future of Children’.
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If you are interested in a Tonalis Training Day/Workshop
you can book Michael for any of the following:
½ day 1 1½ 2 days.

His daily fee is £330 £385 (depending on geographical location).
For 2 days his fee £625.
+ travel expenses & accommodation if necessary.

Please choose from any of the listed themes.
(N.B. MAX. 2 THEMES per DAY).

For further enquiries, or a brochure on each of these themes,
        please contact the Tonalis office, or download the
‘Musical Future of Children’
leaflet from: pdf leaflets 'Other Work'.

Tonalis provides a Music Advisory service to empower teachers’ confidence in their musical selves so that
they can actively help in creating the ‘Musical Future of Children’ and teach music more effectively.

The service we offer is for both Generalist Teachers and School Music Co-ordinators in:

This service ranges from:
coming into a school to observe music lessons and advise individual teachers
a one week residency
a one year ‘Music Teaching Foundation Programme’ - 6 visits/year.

Both the 1 week residency and the 1 Year Programme encompass the entire school -
i.e. we work with both the children and the teachers.
HOW?

Firstly, we model Tonalis music education methods through working with specific age ranges / classes of CHILDREN.
Secondly, our advisory teachers support the TEACHERS through a combination of:
i) Inset Training Days, or After School Sessions (see Tonalis in Schools themes),
ii) Classroom Support tailored to meet the different needs of bothChild playing Pentatonic Psaltery (maker B.Weyeneth)
      the Music Specialist/Co-ordinator in Your School
      the Generalist/Class Teacher
iii) Mentoring with individual teachers.

The programmes are delivered by Michael Deason-Barrow and Pia Poulsen.

Benefits include:
            - increases in children’s confidence and self esteem
            - the development of children’s social skills
            - improvements in children’s enthusiasm for music
            - improvements in children’s singing
            - dramatic increases in teacher’s confidence, both in their teaching of music and in their singing.

     
If you work in a school, or are a school governor, or a parent,
and would like to bring our In-School Programmes into your school,
we would be delighted to talk with you and discuss
how we can work with you to bring the benefits of our work to your children.

For further information, please contact the Tonalis office.
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