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This website provides as a wonderful resource for elementary level lessons on composers. It includes historical information and YouTube listening clips.

This website provides as a wonderful resource for elementary level lessons on composers. It includes historical information and YouTube listening clips.

Great teacher resources to start a successful school year; for first year teachers to veteran teachers.

Great article on using technology strategies in performing ensembles

From the National Association of Teachers of Singing, this site offers great resources to share with students. A wealth of information regarding vocal health is available here.

This resource provides information for anyone who plays or teaches the french horn. You can subscribe to their publication - The Horn Call. This is a great resource for all teachers to learn more about the horn and for all horn students to be a member of.

This website offers resources for brass players, including: advice, news articles, etc. This is a place for all brass players regardless of age or level of experience to learn new techniques and find resources for becoming a better brass player.

Rubrics are great ways to have clean, concise ways to assess our students.  This resource shows educators how to use Google Forms to create and develop rubrics for your classes.

Blog dedicated to analyzing jazz and the pioneers that established the art.  Provided with rich historical context and a wealth of pictures, this could be used really well with a high-level jazz course.

The article discusses insight on intonation and ways that teachers and students should approach intonation. The answer is, not with a tuner.

The woodwind fingering guide is the best resource for finding specific fingering charts for every woodwind instrument.  The woodwind fingering guide provides multiple fingerings for every note and specific fingering charts for every instrument relating to alternate fingerings, trill fingerings, and other extended techniques.  This resource is excellent for students who are starting a new instrument or wish to learn new notes.

This site has in depth fingering charts for each woodwind instrument. There are handy trill and tremolo fingerings. Also, there are alternate fingerings when pitch issues need to be corrected. This is not an updated site or pretty by any means, but it gets the job done and is a good resource for instrumental teachers.

Awesome collection of jazz transcriptions. Students can learn solos played by great jazz musicians.

This is part of a video series showing beginning instruction on each instrument. This is a great video to share with students (and parents) to help them out in the first few lessons. Some information needs to be explained more completely, but this provides good basic knowledge and helps students remember what was taught during lessons.

This page has videos describing and showing basic snare drum technique. Even if you do not use the book with which this is associated, there is some great information available that can improve your student's playing. Everything from the very beginning steps of holding the sticks, through bounce strokes, and into rolls is covered.

Professional organization that provides educational resources and advocacy for choir directors. Main focus is choirs and they offer a national conference with plenty of professional development opportunities.

This slow blues jam is a great resource for those teaching improvisation to beginners or demonstrating the skill to a class. The video is approximately 8 minutes in length allowing the listener/performer to repeat without having to start the video over once more.

I attended an Arts Integration Workshop this past summer (2015), which is designed to train general education teachers how to incorporate the arts into their lessons. This wiki has many, many examples and lesson plans for arts or non-art teachers to use!

The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge site contains a wealth of lessons, activities, and supporting information to enhance arts education. There is an extensive media library containing audio stories, performance clips and other viable information for students.

This could be good for small ensembles and combos. Creates a melody, harmony, and bass part customized to instrumentation needs. Also provides lyrics.

This is an interactive website focused on clarinet fingerings and tone tendencies. It can be used as a game to determine fingerings and tendency tones, or it can be used as a reference. It not only shows fingerings, but also note placement on a staff.

This is an interactive website focused on clarinet fingerings and tone tendencies. It can be used as a game to determine fingerings and tendency tones, or it can be used as a reference. It not only shows fingerings, but also note placement on a staff.

This site provides numerous rhythm and movement activities for young children with the help from rhythm sticks. Such activities help to develop fine motor skills and their sense of rhythm, which will greatly benefit early elementary students, as well as students with special needs.