Just last week, I caught a bit of a cough, and the next thing I know I’m a music teacher with no voice. So I pulled from my bag of tricks (and dug into some others) to survive teaching music with...
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Do you want to push your teaching to better reach all of your music students? Has your administration been asking you to explain how you differentiate in the music...
What Is The Story Behind Carmina Burana? 3 Lesson Activities
I played some of Carmina Burana for my students recently, and one of them asked me about the history. So I did some research and found out what the story is behind Carmina Burana. Carmina...
A few years ago, I started to hear about this new term at a conference and went around asking people: What is a music informance? A music informance is an alternate way to run a musical...
Importance Of Folk Songs In Education: Your Students’ Inheritance
Have you gotten sick of teaching certain songs to your elementary music students? Are you struggling to sort through the thousands of songs available and pick ones that can make an impact on...
Are you looking into teaching music, especially elementary music and want to know how people do this? Did you get moved into a music position with no idea where to start? I get it,...