Happy New Year! I know many teachers are beginning this new semester with student teachers from local universities. The experience of having a student teacher can be exciting, daunting, and stressful all at the same time. You never know what it is going to be like when handing your classroom over to another person. I… Continue reading Starting Out With Student Teachers
Tag: Organization
Performance Based Testing
This week I have been starting my beginning of the year music assessments. I'm Ohio, and in my district, we have to complete Student Learning Ovjective assessments. Luckily, I get to create my own test for these. My principal and colleagues have to review the tests and approve them, but it is nice because I… Continue reading Performance Based Testing
Assessment Ideas
In the past I have felt uncertain about how to assess my students that helped them and helped me. I had done singing assessments and written assessments at the beginning of my career that just did not fit with the kind of teaching I was doing. I was having to stop the learning to do… Continue reading Assessment Ideas
Curriculum, Planning, & More
Curriculum I started a very basic form of curriculum in my first few years, but it wasn't helping as much as I had hoped. Then, I took a music-curriculum course. It was lead by Arvida Steen and Jay Broeker, Orff-Schulwerk legends. They helped us to start out with just a basic list of things to… Continue reading Curriculum, Planning, & More
I Can Statements
Mallets & Music : I Can Statements There are never enough hours in the day, and there are especially never enough minutes in a music class it seems. Over the past few years it has seemed that the minutes of "music making" keep decreasing due to the various other educational things I have been asked to… Continue reading I Can Statements
Mallets, Music, Movement and More 