Professional Development
Using Sing Song Yoga® in the Classroom:
Improve literacy through movement by integrating yoga/movement into the curriculum you’re already using.
- Are your students unfocused, off-task, fidgety, and distracted?
- Are you looking to enhance the learning taking place in your classroom?
- Are you longing to find ways to provide optimal movement experiences within your already jam-packed school day?
As educators, we know that kids need movement breaks during the school day. We understand that children learn better when they are fresh and restored. Most of us even plan movement breaks — which is great! This PD, however, goes beyond using movement as simply needed breaks during the day. We explore ideas and tools to use movement within instructional practices to enhance learning in addition to simply giving bodies the breaks they need. You will learn about basic brain and body systems that are stimulated with purposeful movement to allow for deeper levels of learning.
If you’ve ever considered incorporating yoga into your school day or if you’re intrigued by the possibility of combining yoga with literacy, we’d love to have you join the growing number of teachers and schools who are deliberately seeking out and finding methods to move our classrooms a tad bit closer to optimal learning environments for kids.
Participants will…
- learn to easily incorporate yoga with literacy, to transform from a primarily-sitting classroom to a moving-with-purpose classroom
- learn important basic brain and body systems and how to best stimulate them for more efficient learning
- learn how to skillfully use the Sing Song Yoga® App within the classroom setting*
- experience SSY poses and yoga-based activities best suited for instruction and classroom management
- learn some benefits of yoga and basic pose effects
- learn to use brain breaks and test prep sequences
- receive a PDF of the teacher resource guide“Using Sing Song Yoga® in the Classroom: transforming instruction through movement and the Sing Song Yoga® DVD
- Michigan educators have the opportunity to earn 6 SCECHs for participating
Contact us if interested in our PD
Sing Song Yoga® is an award-winning international kids’ musical yoga program in which song lyrics instruct children how to get into the poses. Our offerings include an iOS app, a DVD, a School Program (Book/DVD), a full Sing Song Yoga® Teacher Training, and our professional development.
Deb Weiss-Gelmi found her roots as a school teacher using songs and movement for classroom management and literacy instruction. It became obvious to Deb that music and movement make learning easier, more effective, and more fun. The research supporting her teaching experiences makes her training applicable to a wide range of teachers. Her major in child development and her work with Sing Song Yoga® in a variety of settings has further deepened her understanding of developmentally appropriate practices for children and fuels her passion for transforming primarily-sitting classrooms into moving-with-purpose classrooms. This type of learning environment provides children with experiences that regularly stimulate the brain and body systems through movement and music naturally enhancing learning, rather than only using movement as a break. Deb is thrilled to pass on her rich knowledge and passion for yoga, literacy, and developmentally appropriate practices.
* The Sing Song Yoga® iOS App is only available for Apple Products (iPhone, iPod, iPad). Most of the training will also be applicable for those teachers using the DVD to teach SSY, but a portion of the training will be demonstrating the app. Furthermore, it is assumed that the facility, in which the participants of the SSY PD intend to use our program with children, will have a means for projecting the content of the App or DVD onto either a large TV or a screen for children to experience the program learned through this SSY PD.