Group items tagged

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.

The Carnegie Hall Corporation provides free resources to music educators. This website has lesson plans, student guides and worksheets, assessments, teaching videos and audio recordings, games and sheet music for the general music classroom. This website is a great resource for music teachers and provides various ways to search and find specific resources to various concepts.

Classics for Kids is a website featuring high quality weekly radio shows/podcasts about classical composers and their music. The service is provided by Cincinnati Public Radio. Excellent biographical information along with quality excerpts of composers' works are included. There is an extensive catalog of previous shows available for listening which are child friendly and is a great resource for music educators. The website also includes games and a section under the "For Grownups" tab for educators featuring music lesson plans.

A comprehensive list of Peter and the Wolf resources for teaching about all aspects of this work. This list includes videos, worksheets, teacher lesson plans, and interactive whiteboard resources to keep students engaged and interested while learning about Peter and the Wolf.

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 feature excellent resources for educators related to "the Blues". PBS offers various resources for classroom instruction including lesson, recordings, and other resources to provide students with a better understand of this style of music. This website would be beneficial for general music and music appreciation. 

This site is a resource for anyone looking to add technology to their classroom. It posts conferences, webinars, and has a database of over 400 lesson plans that involve technology.

For lessons based on music listening and intervallic training, this website is a helpful tool. It takes popular songs and uses them to help students identify intervals and provides links to blogs and information on music advocacy.

EduTech wiki is a music technology wiki featuring resources like music notation software suggestions, computer-based learning software, online interactive music learning services, and piano lesson software. It is a fairly new wiki, so information while good is limited.

This website offers high-quality educational videos that can be filtered by content type, student education level, video duration, and subtitles. The music videos are good for developing students' ability to respond and connect with music. These are not tutorials, but discussions about various music-related topics.

Slidearea.com is the website for the principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, Joe Alessi. Within this site are resources that may be used to supplement lessons for trombone students. The tips that are listed are very practical and assist with developing tone, range, and technique. Within the website are also links to information regarding the Julliard School, recordings, mentor professors, Griego Mouthpieces, Smartmusic, Edwards Instruments, Aleesi Publications, and the Alessi Seminar.

The home of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. OAKE members can log into the website for resources including lesson plans, choral repertoire, and discounts on OAKE publications. Members can also access information for auditioning singers for the National Conference Choirs and register to attend the annual conferences.

This notebook began in 1995 as a compilation of notes taken from lectures during "String Pedagogy," a class offered by Robert Culver, Professor of Music Education at the University of Michigan School of Music. In addition to Professor Culver's course, a t

This is a great website for information about strings pedagogy. I also enjoy he teaching strategies  and informations on books. This will be great to check back throughout the year!

This website has a wealth of information on string pedagogy. Here you can find videos and sample lesson ideas on how to teach concepts range from bow hold to vibrato on all of the string instrument

This website provides information related to jazz and jazz history. This website, under the education tab, provides multiple jazz recordings. Additionally, lesson plans are provided to help align the tracks with classroom activities.

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.

The Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute provides music educators with many invaluable resources. The Digital Library provides lesson plans, videos, and other material for teachers to look through and stream or download for their own classes. This is a very thorough website from a giant of musical performance and education.

This is the official website of the new national music standards. It includes the standards for different types of music classes and grade levels and will be helpful for designing lesson plans.

This article presents ways teachers can integrate technology into the music classroom. It suggests software and pedagogy with examples in current settings. It includes music experiences such as composing that lead to creative thinking and teaching.

This article is geared towards the non-music classroom but has much to offer to the music educator. Music teachers could incorporate the suggestions for songwriting into their own lessons. Ever more, they could use this resource as an example and a guide to collaborate with core subject areas engaging in cross-curricular instruction.

This site is the home to Huei-Yuan Pan - one the most influential marching percussion education specialists in the United States. The site offers media, lessons, sheet music, and links to Huei's educational social media pages