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Tag Archives: high school
Music Curriculum Standards and Pacing Guide
Hi all! I’m currently sitting in a chorus/band summer training institute for teachers and we are discussing music standards, and how to work with them. Some useful websites for planning lessons and exploring standards are: 1. http://www.CPALMS.org, the site for … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Band, Teaching Chorus, Teaching Elementary, Teaching Guitar, Teaching Orchestra
Tagged arts, band, choir, chorus, cpalms, elementary, essential learnings, fine arts, guide, high school, incomplete curriculum, marzano, middle school, music, orchestra, pacing, perform, Race to the top, standards, strings, sunshine state, vocal, voice, winds
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Resource: Vocal Warm-Ups and Sight-Reading Exercises
I found a fantastic book that every voice teacher should have in their collection, it is called The Private Voice Studio Handbook, written by Joan Frey Boytim. The author is well-known for her many solo compilation books and it is … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Private Lessons
Tagged adult, beginning, book, boytim, business, children, class, exercises, help, high school, home, how-to, Joan Frey Boytim, lesson, lesson rates, lessons, look inside, middle school, music, new teacher, pedagogy, practice, private, rate, sample, sheet, sheet music, sight-read, studio, taxes, teach, view, vocal, voice, warm-up, warmups, young adult, youth
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Middle School Composition Assignment
This is an assignment given to me by a teacher when I was substituting her orchestra classes for two days. I don’t think she’s mind if I shared this basic composition assignment. I also have some rules for composing floating … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans & Ideas, Teaching Band, Teaching Orchestra
Tagged .net, assignment, band, blank, compose, composer, composition, easy. staff paper, high school, instructions, lesson, manuscript, middle school, ochestra, rough draft, sheet music, staff, sub, substitute
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Choral Music Scavenger Hunt
This is a scavenger hunt I borrowed from my colleague Miss B.; we used it when I substituted for her class, but it can also be used as a great way to get the students to become familiar with the … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Chorus
Tagged choir, choral, chorus, coda, crescendo, education, Elementary Music, elementary school, fermata, flat, forte, high school, mezzo-piano, music, music scavenger hunt, piano, ritard, scavenger hunt, school, segno, sharp, spiritual, teaching
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It will get better!
As I was subbing the other day, and lamenting the behavior of the terrible chorus children I had in those classes, I longed to have my own classroom. Then I thought to myself, “why would my own students be any … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management, Neutral
Tagged band, beginning, behavior, chorus, class, classroom management, elementary, ensemble, Finding, high school, lesson, lessons, magnet, management, middle school, Mrs., music, new teacher, orchestra, piano, strings, sub, subsitute, teacher, teaching, Warneke
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Adventures of a Music Teacher 