Early childhood Music and Movement and Emergency Remote Teaching

music teacher training in Extension Project

Abstract

Since March 2020, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, teachers of different levels and contexts have had to reinvent their pedagogical practices and adapt to Emergency Remote Teaching. This was also the case with the early chidhood music and movement classes at the Centro de Musicalização Integrado (CMI), a complementary organ of the School of Music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), that offers music classes to the community through extension projects. Thus, it was necessary to readjust the entire structure of the institution to the on-line mode and the need arose to carry out a study system with the objectives of understanding how the classes were being received by the families and to contribute to the training of music teachers to on-line format. An action research was then carried out, from the classes of 4 groups of children's musicalization, with the participation of 40 volunteer families in the virtual classes at CMI during 8, from May to July 2021, taught by interns. From the results of the reseach it was possible to affirm that the music classes for children through Emergency Remote Teaching aroused exchanges of experiences and alternatives of practical solutions. Thus, even in front of the limitations, we can consider that the on-line children's music classes were efficient and provoked positive transformations, as much as the teachers and the children and families.