Early Childhood Music Hub

Whether you're starting from scratch on your journey, or you're an established expert in early childhood music looking to expand your impact —

the Early Childhood Music Hub is the perfect place to nurture your dreams and make a new career

What Do You Gain?

Becoming an Early Childhood Music and Movement Specialist is more of a jigsaw puzzle than a straight path.

What could be involved? What might you learn that you didn't think you were going to learn? How is your puzzle a reflection of the uniqueness of you?

Like any heartfelt desire, once you start pursuing this dream, the gains are immense.

Here's a starting list of the 11 puzzle pieces we'll fearlessly scrutinise:

Skills
Knowledge
Resources
Experience
Mindset . . .

Who is This Course For?

You may be an early childhood educator, a school teacher, a music /dance /drama teacher, a librarian, a singer or other performer, a speech /occupational /family therapist, a parent /carer /grandparent, or an early childhood student.

Maybe, you're none of the above! All you need is an interest in the well-being of young children, curiosity about the power of music, and a love of community-music-making.

You don't need to be able to read music to do music (ask Sir Paul McCartney!)

You do need to clarify where you are heading, save yourself from making mistakes, minimise the learning curve, stay up to date, feel like you belong to a community, and gain validation and reassurance

5 Learning Outcomes for YOU and the Children

Skilful delivery of musical experiences affects everybody's

1. IDENTITY

strong sense of personal, group, and cultural identity

2. BELONGING

strong sense of belonging, social connections, and respect for diversity

3. WELLBEING

strong in social, emotional, and physical wellbeing

4. LEARNING

strong dispositions and strategies for learning in, through and about sound, music and life

5. COMMUNICATION

effective communication and literacy in musics and 99 other languages

ECh Music Hub Membership Contents

Monthly Q&A Workshops on Zoom

Systematised/ Flexible Learning - Your Choice

Recordings You Can View Later or Revisit

Access to Paid Courses and Articles

'1 X Monthly Sessions with Carol '- Use this Q&A session with Carol Biddiss and other members on Zoom to ask anything about your programs, students, career, planned innovations, premises, equipment and more (Value $227-$2,724)
'Video Vault' - All of our past Zoom recordings, on-demand access to each monthly live session as the year progresses.
'Course Vault' - You'll have access to two of our courses, the brand new 'Preschool and Junior Music Curriculum' and the popular 'Story Songs - 10 Benefits from Sharing' along with other free resources such as 'In a Cottage' and '9 Popular Preschool Music Activities'. (Value $649)

If your goal is to become an early childhood music specialist,

then you have every chance of success because you are affecting your identity.

Your focus is ‘I want to be’, not ‘I want to do’.

The way you become a specialist is by doing certain things
effectively but the emphasis is different for each person. You might be really
great at teaching people to play your instrument but you don’t know how to
handle little kids. On the other hand, maybe you’re great at getting children
engaged and staying fascinated but you’re no expert at playing an instrument.

Rather than tell you what to do, I want you to have the chance to become

well-informed about what’s going on in the world of early childhood music and movement.

There are thousands of practitioners, researchers, YouTubers, therapists, performers,
business owners, music teacher associations, childcare centres, schools, dance
and drama academies, clubs and cultural communities — each with a different
angle.

That’s why I’ve chosen eleven ‘topics’ to steer you down your career path,

eleven jigsaw pieces for you to pick up and piece together in your unique
way.

My goal is that you deepen your commitment
to this fundamental statement of identity

— "I am an earlychildhood music specialist.”

Along the way you will connect with others, gain new skills, learn new knowledge, see what others
are doing and find that you do belong as an important contributor in the
wide world of early childhood music — in your own special niche.

Monthly Q&A Workshops on Zoom

January— Resources
February — Materials
March — Knowledge
April — Networks
May— Mindset
and more to be advised on The Q&A Page when you join

'Monthly Session with Carol '— Join the LIVE Call. Use this Q&A session with Carol Biddiss and other members on Zoom to ask anything about your programs, students, career, planned innovations, premises, equipment and more (Value $227-$2,724 depending on how many months you stay)