When we think of leadership in schools, we most often look towards principals, instructional coaches, or to other leadership roles outside the classroom, such as teacher mentors. When it comes to our work inside our music classrooms, we commonly refer to it as...
Strategies for Reaching Kids Who Don’t Care Having spent the bulk of my music education career working in schools known for students with challenging behaviors, I can attest to the truth in the old maxim, “Kids don’t care what you know until they know that you...
As musicians, we spend all of our schooling years working to perfect our musicianship craft so we can participate in the top ensembles. We strive to gain musical skills in order to contribute to an awesome musical group experience. We love making music TOGETHER!...
How difficult it is to assess music skills when we have hundreds of students! We are all familiar with the traditional analytic rubric. You know, the one with 3-6 different dimensions and 3-4 different criteria for each dimension. While this is a nice...
Have you found that video is very engaging for students? My students are even super attentive when I make a video of myself presenting lesson information. I could be standing right there next to the screen and they pay more attention to the video than to me! (I...