Gergely Szabo

Do you find yourself humming songs from class, or belting them out in the car when no one is around?

You might be a Music Together teacher!

Do you feel tempted to sing to crying children in public when their parents seem exasperated?

You might be a Music Together teacher!

Do you find yourself singing along to other parents singing to their children on the bus?

You might be a Music Together Teacher!

We’re Hosting a Music Together Teacher Training November 14-16…

…and we want you to join us!

This year ABC more than doubled its Music Together locations, from 5 to 11!

As part of the expansion we need more teachers, and would like to invite you to think about taking the teacher training.

What’s involved?

The Music Together Teacher Training is 27 hours over 3 days. It is a very intense experience, and must be fully attended.

It is followed by a 10-week, single class, paid apprenticeship, which would run from January through March, in one of our regular classes.

Are There Pre-Requisites or Qualifications Needed?

The simple answer to this is no.

Obviously we have some basic criteria, such as availability to teach, clearing a Vulnerable Sector Record Check, and having a pleasant and patient disposition, but you do not need to be a musician or musically trained to do the training and become a teacher.

We have teachers who come from Theatre, Dance, ECE (early childhood education), public school teaching backgrounds, or who were just parents in one of our classes! All of these folks are great teachers, and we’d love to add to their ranks.

Singing in tune and in time is necessary to pass the training, however.

Nervous or Unsure About This, But Excited About the Idea?

Don’t be! We provide a lot of support, ongoing training, and availability of our team internally.

We support each other, and we’ll support you.

Is There a Cost?

Typically there is a cost for these 3-day trainings, but ABC can cover part of the cost itself, and the remainder through a grant, making the training free for you. In exchange, the trained teacher agrees to join the ABC teaching team for 2 years.

How Do You Sign Up?

First thing to do is to call the office at 416-651-7529 and ask to speak to Barnaby. You’ll have a preliminary chat about your availability in general, your background, and to give you some information about what you can expect to experience, pay rates, time commitment, and more.

Still reading? Call us now! 416-651-7529

Hello Everybody!

As you know, we are now officially CD-Free for Music Together and Rhythm Kids!

This means that you have to use the Hello Everybody App, available for download for both iOS and Android.

Open the front cover of your family music book (or bilingual Spanish Translation book) to find your unique access code for the music and collection assets.

Using the App

Watch this video to get a brief overview of how to access your music.

Remember – if you are a Music Together (not Rhythm Kids) family you also received the bilingual English-Spanish music translation booklet with your regular book. We are strongly recommending this as another tool for developing your Child’s ear. Use the download code from this booklet to access this bilingual music and use it as you primary listening.

An area to watch out for is the setting at the top right-hand corner of your screen when listening to music. There is a switch to have the music stream, or download. We recommend that when you put in your download code, you go right to the new music and set this to download, so you don’t eat up you data streaming the music.

Family Music Zone

If you are like your teachers, you probably want to have this music in iTunes, or your Android music player, rather than the app.

To port the music over, you’ll need to download the music from the Family Music Zone at musictogether.com. Click ‘Login’ at the top of the screen, and be sure to use the same email you use(d) in the app.

Once logged in, you’ll see the main welcome area:

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Take note of the Access Code link in the menu at the top right of the screen.

From here, all you have to do is scroll down the page to find the most recent collection of music you have entered a code for:

If you can’t see the current collection’s music haven’t entered the code yet. Go back up to the top of the page and use the Access Code button to enter your code and unlock your music and resources.

To download the whole collection of music to your computer, use the dark blue Download Collection button instead of going song by song.

Questions, Confused?

Call us! We’ll help get you sorted out.

If your code doesn’t seem to be working, or logging in is a problem, we also recommend you reach out to [email protected] – they are very speedy and helpful with these things.