Howdy, Teachers, Specialists and School Staff Members!
Whether you are teaching online or in person, these classes will prepare
you to engage students in learning through music.
GITC courses are offered on a quarterly schedule. Our Fall courses will begin in September.
CEUs are available through UCSD Extension. Your instructor will fill you in.
As of July 11, BEGINNER, BEGINNER Plus, NEW STRUMMER,
STRUMMER PLUS and AMAISE courses are full and closed.
If you got here after courses filled up. we are sorry our capacity is limited.
Since COVID-19 started we have doubled our services and tapped our budget.
We hope you will visit us again in September to enroll for a Fall course!
If you'd like us to keep your information on file for future class notifications,
please fill out this little surveywww.surveymonkey.com/r/FallInterest
and we will email you a week before we open new classes so you can be first in line.
To empower GITC to do more, we hope you will donate to our non-profit when you can.
Please visit our YouTube Channel- Better Learning Through Music.
Courses Here Are for Educators, Specialists & School Staff Members ONLY,
But FUN MUSIC TIME with Mr. JAY at the end of this list is FOR KIDS ONLY
GITC provides a free ukulele to beginners in our programs.
We also LOAN a guitar to teachers who would like to borrow one.
We ask that participants cover the cost of shipping these instruments.
If you wish to purchase your own guitar or ukulele to play,
we recommend calling your local music store to see what they have for sale.
We can attest to the quality of Kala Brand ukuleles, Korg's Tanglewood ukuleles and Cordoba Ukuleles!
We also recommend Martin and Godin guitars for steel string guitars.
If no local music store exists in your area, we recommend shopping at
a reputable online music store such as
Musician's Friend, Sam Ash Music or Sweetwater Music
Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom shares our "SmartStart" Open Tuning approach through books that are available for sale to the general public. SmartStart Guitar is available from Hal Leonard Publishing. Smartstart Ukulele is available from Korg/Soundtree.
However, our GITC programs encompass much more than an instrumental approach to beginning guitar and ukulele.
Only certificated GITC faculty members teach music integration that includes employing music making and song-based learning to enrich and deepen literacy and math learning, social-emotional growth, cross-curricular connections, and more. If you are looking for an official GITC program, it will be listed at this website or it will be known to us. It must be taught by one of our trained and certified faculty members. Anyone else saying that they are teaching Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom may be using some version of our instrumental approach to teach music in some way. They are not providing endorsed or official GITC training. For example, Special Olympics uses our method in Arizona and Texas, and they are calling it Unified Ukulele. This is not a GITC-endorsed program and we cannot endorse their work since we are not involved- but we are glad they are sharing music with Special Olympians.
If you want to check on someone's standing with our organization or alert us to possible copycat programs, we ask that you please REACH OUT HERE. Thanks so much for the help keeping our charitable work safe and ensuring the quality of GITC instruction!
However, our GITC programs encompass much more than an instrumental approach to beginning guitar and ukulele.
Only certificated GITC faculty members teach music integration that includes employing music making and song-based learning to enrich and deepen literacy and math learning, social-emotional growth, cross-curricular connections, and more. If you are looking for an official GITC program, it will be listed at this website or it will be known to us. It must be taught by one of our trained and certified faculty members. Anyone else saying that they are teaching Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom may be using some version of our instrumental approach to teach music in some way. They are not providing endorsed or official GITC training. For example, Special Olympics uses our method in Arizona and Texas, and they are calling it Unified Ukulele. This is not a GITC-endorsed program and we cannot endorse their work since we are not involved- but we are glad they are sharing music with Special Olympians.
If you want to check on someone's standing with our organization or alert us to possible copycat programs, we ask that you please REACH OUT HERE. Thanks so much for the help keeping our charitable work safe and ensuring the quality of GITC instruction!