Learning Centers in the Music Classroom

Learning Centers in the Music Classroom

A couple years ago, I wrote this blog post about learning centers in the music room. Since then, I've been asked a few times to write another blog post about learning centers, so here goes!It wasn't until a few years ago that I began to really try to implement centers in my room. Although I was initially nervous, I have had so much fun (as have my students!) My lessons had been admittedly pretty teacher-centered...

Audacity Tutorial

Audacity Tutorial

Hi everyone!I recently did a technology workshop for VOKE (Virginia Organization of Kodaly Educators), and we briefly discussed Audacity. which you can download for free here. It's a great program for editing music quickly. Some of the workshop attendees wanted to know if I would do a video tutorial about taking a track from itunes, editing it in Audacity, then exporting it back into itunes so you...

Five Favorite Pins of June

Five Favorite Pins of June

Today was my first day teaching for this summer's Kodaly Level I at DePaul University! It was a fun day; I'm looking forward to the next two weeks. I've been a bit busy preparing for it, so I realized I needed to post about my five favorite pins this month!To see the pin, click each picture. Here goes!#1: Kindergarten Xylophone IntroductionI absolutely love this You Tube video about introducing students...

Dazzling Discipline

Dazzling Discipline

Today, I am very excited to blog about discipline strategies! I received so many great comments and ideas from my 1,200 Followers blog post, and many of you asked for discipline ideas. I'm naming this linky party "Dazzling Discipline"!A couple disclosures before I offer discipline strategies: I work in a school district with very supportive parents and overall, well-behaved kids. However, there are...

Planning in the Music Room

Planning in the Music Room

Today I'm very excited to participate in Lindsay Jervis' blog hop, about Perfect Poolside Planning!Planning is a passion of mine. Through my Kodaly levels, I learned so much about long and short-range planning, and how to best develop plans that could meet all of my daily, monthly, and yearly goals.It is hard for me to talk about lesson planning specifically without looking at long-range planning....