Effective Transitions Essentials

Online • Live • 10 PD Hrs

Turn transition time into sound-and-play-based learning opportunities you and your students look forward to every day.

Overview

Do you wish that you had a better way to get through all those challenging transition times during the day? Learn to treat those minutes as a precious resource—a special time to explore a joyful mini-curriculum over the course of the year, building skills that are crucial to academic success.

This course focuses on best practices for educators in using sound (and silence) to help children develop and enhance their active listening, executive function, and social-emotional skills.

Date: New cohorts accepted on a monthly basis

Course Level: Beginner

Requirements/Prerequisites: None

Target Audience: Instruction and Effective Practice, Support Services

Course Meeting Times: Three mandatory meetings on Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET

Completion Timeline/Duration: Eight weeks

Head Start Alignment: This curriculum supports young children’s learning across various Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) learning domains, including:

Approaches to Learning
Social and Emotional Development
Language and Communication
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Cognition

Course Outline

Module Topics:

Introduction to Creative Sound Play and the Greenfield Method
Putting Theory into Practice: Using the Three Basic Elements of Sound
Using Sound Sculptures for Transitions
Counting, Clapping, and Stomping
Counting with Pitch and Duration

Learning Objectives:

Understand the role of active listening skills and sound play in creating social-emotional learning environments that enable children to feel safe and enjoy learning.
Develop the fundamental ability to create and communicate sound and silence using the three basic elements of sound (pitch, volume, and duration).

Course Facilitator

Hayes Greenfield

Hayes Greenfield is a New York City based producer, composer, saxophonist, filmmaker, bandleader, and educator. Hayes has recorded and produced a number of critically acclaimed albums, received awards in all of his endeavors, and played throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Hayes began developing the Greenfield Method in the early 2000s while working with special needs high school students. While at the Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Hayes created a three-year pilot program for Detroit public school pre-K teachers to work with sound as part of the PNC Bank Grow Up Great early childhood education initiative.

In 2012, Hayes contacted Clancy Blair and Cybele Raver—two acclaimed developmental neuroscientists working at New York University—who immediately recognized the Greenfield Method's potential and introduced Hayes to the award-winning Early Childhood Center at Lenox Hill NeighborHood House. Over a five year period, Hayes worked with the Center’s teachers and students to implement and codify his method.

Hayes is also the creator of Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, an award-winning family CD, and interactive, K-12 jazz performance/workshop assembly program that has performed internationally for over 300,000 young people. His second award-winning family album, Music for a Green Planet, celebrates Green, Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

Registration Rates

Regular Rate: $425

NHSA Member Rate: $295

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Includes

Online, Self-paced Coursework
Live Coaching from Instructor
Access to a National Cohort of Peers
10 Hours of Course Material
Video Content
4 Months of Access to Online Course
Digital Badge
Discussion Forums
Certificate of Completion
24/7 Access to Transcript

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