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The instrumental standards as derived from the Core Arts Standards developed by NAfME.

This webpage provides information relating to music advocacy both for educators and parents. This site also provides encouragement to teachers and administrators as they work to provide quality music programs in their schools.

Kevin Lynch is a first-year band director in Stafford County, VA. He started a podcast that features interviews with both younger and experienced educators as a way to share different perspectives on music education. A wide variety of topics are discussed, depending on that week's guest.

This website is a great resource for classroom music teachers! It is a collection of posts about music teaching and resources. The resources are free and include items such as free manuscript paper to use in class, posters to print, game instructions, and lesson ideas. You can search with keyboards or filter the posts.

This website is a great resource for band students to better understand note names, fingerings, and musical terms.  It is structured as a flash card game.  Students are racing to get all answers correct and into the Top 50.  If students answer incorrectly, the correct answer is shown to help students learn the correct answer. Students must answer all questions correctly in a certain time to move on to the next level.

This website is speed game for reinforcing terms, note names, or fingerings for students. It can be specialized to different instruments and has an option for teachers to keep track of scores by school.

Music racer is a tool to help users practice their note names and/or fingerings. Users select which instrument they would like to practice, and are given eight questions per round. Scoring is based on both speed and accuracy.

This can be used by any educator including music educators to create flashcards for their students and do a class review. This would be great for a music vocabulary quiz or something similar such as instrument families.

There are 12 activities that can be used as teambuilding. They are new, fun and innovative. Used with Middle school or high school aged students.

Skills Map for the Arts. Developed by Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Gives examples of activities for developing 21st century skills such as creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking through the arts.

This is a website from PBS that chronicles the evolution of music recording from the phonograph to iTunes. As you read through the different stages of music production, there are interesting facets of information regarding the progression of copyright laws.

Video lesson: Little Liza Jane This link is a video of Dr. Robert Amchin as he demonstrates the teaching process for "Little Liza Jane." Amchin posts videos of his elementary music classes in his Youtube channel.

The purpose of this TED talk is to explain creativity as it pertains to the human characteristics. McManus (2015) explained that we were created to create, our imagination should be explored, and we should celebrate this creativity. This video is inspiring for creative teaching and learner in music and other disciplines.

This is a list of overarching Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for the New National Standards. I use this as a reminder of what meaning goals I truly want my students to be learning!

These are the new 2014 anchor standards. I reference these often to make sure my lessons are not just meeting district standards, but national standards as well. They also help give me ideas if I am struggling with lesson ideas.

This resource is a web-based program which can generate polyrhythms. The graphics help visualize the rhythms in a pleasing and logical way. Specific polyrhythms can be generated in many layers, or random ones may also be generated within specific parameters. This might be used as an enrichment tool for aural skills courses.

Free trial of this program. It will add a simple accompaniment to your melody line as you sing it into the microphone.

This site includes resources, curriculum, and blog posts designed primarily for elementary general music. A few resources for choral, band, and private studio are also available. Blog posts include many practical topics and issues faced by music teachers such as strategies for working with special needs students, technology, and mental health of teachers. Many of the blog posts feature a video that includes a question and answer segment addressing specific questions from teachers.

This website, from the National Association for Music Education, highlights the "Top Most Read Music Education Blogs of 2016." The blogs pertain to various topics including the benefits of the arts, lesson planning, concert etiquette, music technology, and classroom management.

The purpose if this site it to create easy access to the most read blogs of 2016 in one location. Topics such as: What Students Have to Gain From the Arts, Effective Lesson Planning for the Secondary Choral Director, 3 Reasons Music and Arts Education is a Shining Light, Music Teacher Resumes Revisited: Planning, Creating, and Maintaining, Ten Tips to Transform a Flutist into a Piccoloist, Teaching Concert Etiquette, How to Teach Your Students the Attention They Need to Succeed...etc. are explored. All these topic are related to student success in the music classroom.

A great resource for learning note names. This website can be customized to fit the needs of your students. Change the clef and set a range of notes, including limiting to just lines or spaces. Present it to your students as a game and you're ready for a fun lesson.

Sight Reading Factory offers a web based version and an app. You can create your own sight reading exercise or let the app create one for you. There is a playback feature as well

Here is a wonderful music education podcast. There are a number of important topics discussed in this podcast such as planning, reflecting, rehearsal strategies, and student leadership. This is a great resource for beginning and experienced music teachers alike.