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A great resource for your last minute lesson plan needs!  There are plans, activities, and quizzes!

Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. I love this resource primarily for the fun and interactive nature that the games provide to my classroom. There are plenty of resources such as lessons, pre-made assessment, and videos. However, the games allow students to enjoy learning through assessment and interactive scenarios.

This website is a great resource for beginning to integrate technology into your classroom. There are ready-made lesson plans, as well as fun activities to do with your students. There are worksheets on theory, lessons on piano, and so much more.

An all around great site for piano teachers. Lesson and teaching ideas in plain English without all the teacher speak. This particular article applies to Group Piano / Class Piano, but there are other resources for private instructors. Very well done, and a great source for lesson plan ideas.

This is a blog full of resources for piano teachers. Susan Paradis blogs about everything from games and worksheets for students to teaching techniques. She offers free resources and has a store. This can be used by piano teachers to enhance their creativity in lesson planning.

This is an excellent resource for piano teachers. There are articles about books to read, piano pedagogy, studio management, and other pertinent topics for piano teachers. This would be a very useful resource for teachers of all experience levels to learn more about how to fine tune their teaching.

This site contains lessons, worksheets, and quizzes for young music students. In addition, there are links to other music tech related resources and suggested reading materials and other supplies

Amazing resource for lesson plans, worksheets, and games to teach students about a wide variety of music topics. This website would be great for creating lesson plans for subs and would also be a great resource if you can't find printed worksheets that address theory. The games are also fun and educational, asking students to identify instruments, tempos, etc. and can act as quizzes that can be scored and printed out. Great resource!

Music Tech Teacher is an open resource offered by Karen Garrett as an extension of her own music classes she had previously been teaching. Ms. Garrett offers free lessons, worksheets and assessments that can be downloaded as .pdfs and used by any teachers looking for materials that could be used within their own classrooms. Ms. Garrett's resources also have a strong focus on teachers looking to specifically make use of technology in their classes.

This is a podcast designed to help piano teachers of all experience levels. They discuss different teaching techniques, studio information, practice ideas, and other helpful information. This can be used by piano teachers to enhance their teaching knowledge and learn ways so successfully run their piano studio.

A resource that helps teachers to help their students recognize the students' strengths and weaknesses. Encouraging strengths in students instead of only identifying weaknesses can help build musical self-efficacy. The article is technically written for piano teachers, but could be applied to all music teachers.

A resource that helps teachers to help their students recognize the students' strengths and weaknesses. Encouraging strengths in students instead of only identifying weaknesses can help build musical self-efficacy. The article is technically written for piano teachers, but could be applied to all music teachers.

This website has many piano/keyboard resources that can be printed. It has great, colorful visuals for students to use that are decently explanatory on their own.

This website provides many resources pertaining to teaching piano. There are games, worksheets, improv help, and ear training resources to help teachers and students.

This site is stocked full of useful features for students in the form of games, quizzes, and a great flash keyboard with music to match. Using the number keys, students can practice even if they don't have a piano keyboard. There are also lessons and resources for teachers, too.

This website is suitable for teachers who give students free time to work on music games. Many different music topics are taught by the music teachers and a better way for students to retain the information would include turning some of their assignments into competition. One thing i have learned, elementary students love to be competitive, so if the students are able to get high scores on music games, then they are retaining and getting the information.

The creator of this site, Karen Garrett, has compiled different games and quizzes to make her music class more interactive. Students can access games about different instruments, note naming, rhythm, and even composers. There are also theory quizzes and worksheets that anyone can access.

The purpose of this resource is to gain resources and ideas for piano students. This source is mainly for piano teachers and provides them with resources and ideas that will help inspire their teaching.

This site includes scale sheets, rhythm charts and bowing examples for orchestra students and teachers.  I have used this site with my school students and private students.

This string specific website has lots of great resources for working on different skill-sets. I particularly like this for the finger pattern exercises and rhythmic reading tunes. This helps to work on rhythm, intonation, sight-reading, and scale work.

This website is a comprehensive resource for string teachers which includes etudes, scale sheets, bowing resources, and more. Many resources are available for printing and sharing directly with students.

This explains why students who study piano for years quit and become 'the other 80%' when they reach puberty. Great ideas here for the piano teacher.

This a rhythm game that can be used as a fun activity in private lessons. This allows piano teachers to add some new activities to lessons that will also help students review rhythm.

This a rhythm game that can be used as a fun activity in private lessons. This allows piano teachers to add some new activities to lessons that will also help students review rhythm.

This website offers worksheets, games, and tutorial videos for teachers to use with their younger piano students (K-6 to) to enhance student engagement and understanding. Some basic theory is taught in the form of colorful dittos for students, and other theory or technique is taught by game-based worksheets. There are a number of resources to accommodate major holidays and calendar events as well. There are many link that branch off into different other sites to facilitate the sharing of ideas with other educators. Videos are also included to demonstrate how various games and lessons should be structured for maximum efficiency.

Great resources from the Piano Technician's Guild - from word find on piano parts to the history of the instrument.

Free podcasts available online, also on iTunes, to learn how to play jazz piano. There are a lot of episodes and it starts simple and easy before it gets a bit more advanced. There's an easy progression of increasing difficulty. These podcasts are a great resource for students and teachers for increasing their jazz piano abilities.

This website provides valuable resources for piano teachers. It can be used as a group class or private teaching. It contains worksheets, games, sheet music (easy and intermediate level). It is suitable for early childhood and elementary students.

This is a website owned by a married couple who teach and own their own music studio. There site contains blogs and everyday they share ideas from teachers around the world as well as give suggestions for current teachers. Their site includes printables which can be used for teaching. They also have an online store with the products they have written for teachers.

Yousician is a great resource for learning the guitar, bass, ukelele, or piano. Students can watch video tutorials and move up when they pass levels while playing songs with fun background music. The program/app provides instant feedback on pitch and rhythm. Teachers can use Yousician with a class on a Smart Board. In a group setting, Yousician cannot provide feedback, but it does provide lesson plans and even has a SongCreator. It is free to use with time limits on feedback, or can be upgraded to premium for $9.99/person with unlimited feedback. Students can sign up for their own account and teachers can track their progress through a Teacher account. It is fun, engaging, and provides a well rounded education in these instruments. There are knowledge tracks for each instrument which cover music theory and ear training.

Offers a good variety of lessons, for both beginners and advanced students, from notes' duration to Neapolitan chords. Also tools such as chord calculator, metronome, pop up piano window etc., are available for free.

A great free cite for notation practice exercises and lessons.

Music Theory Learning to read music