After our first-ever Ward course at Duquesne University, I would love to hear more feedback from the participants and also comments from others who are either using the method or would like to learn more about it.
Hello, Janet, although I did not attend this one, I felt it was a wonderful idea.
I attended the Ward 1 training in France in 1995 and managed to teach 3 children about 10-year old on a weekly basis (on Saturdays) for 2 years, but at this rate we only went to chapter 14 before the boys started changing voice. Then in the early 2000s I taught 3 children, about 6-year old, 4 times a week in a homeschooling family and covered about the same material in a few months.
I attended Ward 2 in 1998, but did not complete book 2, so I am longing for a training on the end of book 2 (and may be start book 3). For future teachers' information, book 2 has much fewer new gestures, languages and training techniques than book I, but a lot more material (intonation exercises, rhythm patterns, drills, songs, etc) and the very fundamental auditive rhythmic recognition.
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