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Guitars in the Classroom
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Guitars in the Classroom (GITC) helps bring music into public elementary and middle schools around the country by giving regular classroom teachers free lessons in guitar, music education, song leadership, and music integration.
GITC helps teachers make learning at school especially fun and creative by teaching them to play guitar, sing, lead children in song, and giving them ways to integrate music into daily studies and activities.
GITC helps teachers find new ways to build students' musical self-esteem and self-confidence by offering practical skills and lesson ideas for daily musical activities.
GITC addresses the learning styles and strengths of students across the ability spectrum, bringing out the best in children who often struggle with more traditional modes of learning.
GITC trains teachers to boost student literacy skills as well as multi-cultural awareness through the inclusion of songs in Spanish and English as well as other bilingual songs from a variety cultures.
GITC trains teachers to boost students' language arts skills through songwriting and lyric writing activities as well as through literature-based songwriting activities.
GITC trains teachers to engage children in every subject area through the inclusion of songs that introduce, reinforce or extend learning across the elementary school curriculum at all grade levels.
GITC supports the health and future of the musical manufacturing industry by creating free musical ''gateway'' experiences for children during their most formative years, guiding them onto and along the path of musical curiosity and learning each day of the school year.
GITC keeps programs local, supports them to become locally funded, and eliminates the possibility of incurring overhead expenses by teaching classes only in free public spaces, advertising classes only through free announcements and feature articles in local newspapers, and keeping all accounting and administrative costs at or below 10% of total contributions.
Learn more at www.guitarsintheclassroom.com
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