If you can speak, you can sing: Singing skills for educators

Inspire children to sing beautifully by being a good singing role model. Here are a few tips:

• Start with songs you know how to sing - revisit the songs of your childhood, especially traditional nursery songs.
• Practice singing these songs: In your car, in the shower, anywhere private. 
• Try to sing nearly every day. 
• Explore youtube to find singing warm ups for young children and use them yourself, as well as with children.

Singing is a physical skill, so technique and practice will improve performance, just as they do for fitness or sports. Singing is described as a perceptual motor skill, as it involves aural perception (listening), memory and production of sound. 

To develop your listening and musical memory, listen to quality recordings of children's songs. Hit the repeat 'button' several times for each song. Sing along with the recording at first, then try pausing it and singing solo. 

To develop your sound production, there are simple techniques you can use. Below is a website with suggestions for physical exercises which will quickly improve your singing. 

http://blog.discmakers.com/2013/05/singing-tips-sing-better-right-now/

Happy singing.