Education Through Music is a unique teaching program offered through a series of sessions throughout the year across North America as well as intensive summer institute sessions each season. 

Once you experience ETM and use it in your classroom, you will find that ETM benefits all your students — in all their classes — not just music. Don't just take our word, check out our testimonials and read what others have to say!

We will teach you how to:

• enhance your students' natural learning process
• heighten their perceptual awareness
• improve their self-confidence
• develop their musical skills, knowledge and musicality
• improve their social awareness
• increase their ability to focus and widen their attention span

all through the unique ETM blend of movement, language, song, social interaction and thought process.

Whether you are a new graduate or a seasoned professional looking for a new approach, an early childhood educator or care-giver, or if you work with seniors, studying ETM can help you motivate, excite and refresh your outlook. Using your ETM training will challenge those you work with, in all areas of learning and, subsequently, it will have a profound effect on all areas of their lives.

You can come to our courses or we can come to you! As well as our courses throughout the year and our intensive Summer Seminars, we often hold mini-seminars as professional development or in-service training for as long or short a time as you need - just contact us and we will arrange it! It's a great way to learn more about us!

A recent addition to our program offerings is our Adult/Youth summer sessions.  This is a coming together of adults and youths for ETM play along with art/crafts and story telling. The adults can be parents, aunts,uncles, grandparents or god parents who bring a child who is 8 years or older with them.  It is amazing the amount of song-games and crafts that can be experienced in 5 days!

DIRECTORS AND INSTRUCTORS
Barbara L. Shaw, BA (Psychology)
Barbara Shaw is the Assistant Director of the Richards Institute of Education and Research, Canada.

She holds an Ontario Teaching Certificate as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree. Barb brings over 10 years of classroom teaching experience. She began studying Education Through Music with Dr. Mary Helen Richards in 1972 and is an Instructor and clinician of on-going workshops, seminars and courses with teachers, children and parents throughout Canada, the United States and Japan.