Getting Started Why are you even doing this??? Teachers make a difference. Top 10 Tips for Student Teachers http://www.tmea.org/ |
| Finding a Job MENC Career Guide Finding a job in music education Texas Academic Excellence Indicator Provides statistics on Texas school districts. Know what you're getting into! MENC open forum An open forum for future music educators. Woe Is I Get this book and clean up your speaking and writing grammar; a painless way to sound like an educated adult Get Training! AOSA Approved Courses Orff training OAKE Kodaly links | First Year MK8 List Whatever you do, subscribe to this list for great ideas and advice. Check out their archives. Your concerns are probably there. MK8 Archives Teacher Tools Scroll down to the very bottom of this page Tips for New Teachers very helpful links from TMEA First Week of School Thoughts from the experienced Six Ways to Be a Bad Teacher Music resources for teachers just starting out Actually, these are great for any experience level! |
General Music Education Sites |
Music Education Madness many great resources for elementary music Marthabees Music Site Music Ed Resources Idea Library | General music education links everything you ever wanted to know! Music at School from the UK |
| Classroom Management |
The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resouces Over 400 sites, but no longer updated, so some broken links The Really Best List of Classroom Management Resources A pared-down version of above, again, some broken links. The Teacher's Guide to Class Management Many articles, hints and resources Concert Etiquette | Music Sites for Kids Easy navigation for kids, but great resources for you also. Music K 8 Home site for mk8 forum. Check the archives and ideas as well as supplies and materials to purchase. |
| Assessment |
Rubric Template A template to create your own rubrics RubiStar a free tool for making rubrics Rubrics Rubric construction set | Teacher's Tools Scroll down on this page toward the bottom to "Teacher Assessment Tool Sites" Education World 99 ways to say "Very Good!" Teacher-created Rubrics |
| Templates/Forms |
Microsoft Education Templates (schedules, calendars, awards, attendance, seating charts, hall passes, sign-out sheets, signs, feedback forms, parent letters, rule sheets, permission slips, emergency contacts, newsletters, staff paper, graph paper, lesson plans, planning sheets, grade book, test templates . . .) Brainybetty.com Make your own PowerPoints with these great templates Teacher Tools Include bookmarks, puzzle-maker, flashcards, worksheets and another list of even more links. Latitudes Behavior modification charts and coupons | Teacher Vision Charts, forms and contracts for use with behavior management Renaes Room Very cool fonts Game Templates Jeopardy Template Jeopardy Template II Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Template Family Feud Template Hollywood Squares Template Pyramid Template Question Gameshow Template Weakest Link Template Wheel of Fortune Template |
| Pedagogy |
National Standards for Music Education Content Standards Explained The Ultimate Guide to Music Education Standards K-12 What should they know? 1st grade: http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/musicatbangert/id35.html 2nd grade: http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/musicatbangert/id36.html 3rd grade: http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/musicatbangert/id37.html 4th grade: http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/musicatbangert/id38.html 5th grade: http://bangertmusic.tripod.com/musicatbangert/id39.html | Organization of American Kodaly Educators Kodaly in a nutshell Orff in a nutshell Orff instruments Curwen hand signs Kodaly rhythm syllables |
| Lesson Plans |
ilearnmusic.com 1001 Free Lesson Plans for the General Music Classroom Lessonplanspage.com/Music Choose your level and plan to spend some time browsing. JazzSmithsonian Jazz lessons from the Smithsonian. Find more resources by clicking the "Teacher Lesson Plans" link at the top of the page. Edmusic Lesson Plan links Teach-nology.com Lesson plans Rock Hall Rock & Roll lesson plans geared toward interdisciplinary learning. Mrs. Lukow's Plans Scope and sequence for K-6 | MENC Guide Index Online searchable lesson plans, also often geared toward interdisciplinary learning. Keeping Score San Francisco Symphony site; Lesson plans cross-curricular ArtsEdgee 97 Arts-Integrated Lessons which focus on music. Teachers.net The music section of their Lesson Bank The Educator's Reference Desk Music Lesson Plans Beacon Learning Center Lesson plans from Florida Music Lesson Plans Lessoncorner.com Lesson plans and worksheets |
Teaching Materials |
MusicTeacher.com So cool!! Lots of games and flash files whackydoremi Boomwhacker cards - single measure cards for ostinato or flashcards k12/sound/index A unit on the science of sound for 2nd grade musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes Quizzes and games for kids to play which teach music concepts Songstory List of children's song storybooks with lesson plans marthabees/Grid Music grids for rhythm lessons Piano Mouse Cute cartoons and a skill drill for learning lines and spaces in 3 clefs | BooksforMusicEducators List of children's books for music educators - that they can read themselves, or that you can read to them Colin's Teaching Resources Great music lessons PracticeSpot Sightreading Chef Build custom sight-reading pages PracticeSpot Rhythm Machine Create and print out randomly generated rhythm drill sheets PracticeSpot Theory Center Reproducible Theory sheets Music worksheets Web-based Musical Activities |
| Ideas |
Music K-8 Idea Bank Search this archive for ideas on EVERYTHING Music Bulletin Boards Bulletin board ideas for the music classroom http://upstagereview.org/index.html Have to do a program? Lots of ideas, costumes, etc. | Ideabank This is an idea archive of the mk8 forum mentioned under "First Year". Search by any keyword and get great ideas that have already been tested in the music classroom. Music Education Resources All of the material here has been contributed by many different music teachers from e-mail discussions. Pentatonika Many links to more real teacher submissions |
| Songs |
Kididdles Many many children's songs and midi files. Also a good resource for printed material. NIEHS kids music Lyrics and midi files to songs for children. Childrens Songs the teachers guide Lyrics and midis The Schoolbell Songs and poetry for kids SongPowerpoints Use these to get the kids' heads out of the book Suzyred.com Curriculum songs and learning parodies Official state songs For all states with sheet music and midi Nursery rhyme origin info Some you might share, others, maybe not! | Musicnotes.net Graded list of songs Songs4teachers.com Theme-related songs and poems MsMillerRounds Quality rounds to teach your children Elementary songs and poems Songs that teach Songs for Teaching A wealth of lyrics, CDs for cross-curricular teaching Original Rounds Free to download and use Songs you can play with only Three Chords Classic-kids-songs.html Many songs including curricular cross-overs |
| Listening Maps & Lessons |
Classics for Kids Links to radio show, but you can listen from the website Karadar.com Free archive of legal MP3s to download for listening plus associated resources Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures | World Music The Teacher's Guide to World Music - a list of links Audio Program Index list of audio programs on specific pieces/composers |
| Symphony/Instrument Resources |
Instrument Encyclopedia great launch point Monica Autry's Powerpoint on Instruments Elementary lesson including pictures and sound Music Battleship Musical instrument Battleship game Introduction to the Recorder Playalong videos for recorder Students play with a cool track Bands and Wind Ensembles Intro to the Orchestra | sfskids San Francisco Symphony – great site for kids, could also use in teaching situation if AV tools available DSOKids Dallas Symphony - interactive site for kids NYPhilKids New York Philharmonic Kid Zone rhythmweb.com Homemade instruments - how to make them and other instruction resources More Homemade Instruments Orff Level 1 Example Orff Level 2 Example Orff Level 3 Example Posted on YouTube |
| Composer/Musician Resources |
Classical-composers.org Classical Composer Database Karadar.com Composer biographies with links to photos, works, sound files, etc. Composers Kid-friendly composer profiles at the Dallas Symphony site | Composer Gallery New York Philharmonic Kid Site PBS Composer Profiles American composer resources, good info, but more challenging PBS Jazz Biographies of jazz musicians |
| Composition |
Creatingmusic.com Several different composition activities Folksong.org.nz/composing Writing story songs for older children Improvising Midi loops in various modes and scales designed for students to use while improvising Fraction Pie Rhythms Teaches rhythm and fractions while composing | Christmas bells A Flash of handbells - kids could improvise on this set or just experiment with the sound Musearts.com A whole scale of guinea pigs to demonstrate scales, to play a tune or improvise A Musical Sketch Pad Drum keyboard make up your own drum part Jamstudio.com More complicated, but VERY cool |
| Games |
See Game Templates above under "Templates" Music at Bangar This music teacher has a great list of links of online music games that kids can play. There is also a curriculum check-list for every grade! Free Online Musical Games Try the Elastic Frog! | Singing Games Games to play with songs they know Musictechteacher.com Games and quizzes - awesome list! PowerPoint Games templates you can use Parade of Games in PowerPoint |
| Cross-Curricular |
| Teaching With the Arts Folkdance Resources | Integrating folk music |
Resources |
Music in Motion Music education resources and gifts Peripole The best recorder and other instruments Music Fonts StaffWriter (type rhythms, notes, music symbols, etc. into Word docs) & SingASign(Curwen hand signs and stick rhythms) | Music K-8 Wishlist Music teachers can log items they need in their classrooms There is also a flyer to print announcing the wishlist if fundraising is available. Technology in the music classroom |
PowerPoints |
Mrs. Lukow's PowerPoints Patriotic songs and a great "Music Room" intro | http://www.marthabeesmusic.com/index_pages.html Using PowerPoint to teach |
| Miscellaneous |
Exploratorium Great site on the science of sound with questions, experiments, exhibits, etc. for children Music Education Madness Powerpoints to download - sing-alongs, listening, lessons, flashcards, music advocacy, etc. Kellyskindergarten.com More PowerPoints Concert Manners Teach this to your students!! Concert Etiquette A great page on concert etiquette Mama Rocks Here are some great sound files. Your children can move to them, learn a dance to them, compose words to them, learn to distinguish popular styles. They sound very cool and will loop for an extended activity. Boomthang Make your own sound files. sfasu.edu/distance/music Stephen F. Austin University offers a Master's degree in Music Education online, geared to those who are currently teaching. Bloom's Taxonomy Holiday music activities | Music Centers Set some up in your own classroom Nursery Rhymes Kidscolorpages.com Pages for kids to color on every subject - huge Music Advocacy Musick8.com If you ever find that you have to "officially" justify a school music program, here is a PowerPoint called "The Value of Music in our Schools". It is at the bottom of the page on the left side. Classics For Kids 12 Benefits of Music Education (another resource to justify school music programs) Music Education Online Several resources in the fight against cutting music education Standards for Basic and Quality School Music Programs Resource prepared by the Texas Music Administrator's Conference Use these standards as a resource to justify improvement of your program Special Needs Students |
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