GoNoodle is an interactive website that offers activity songs for different classrooms. The videos can be used as brain breaks, but it also has songs that could be use in cross-curricular settings (English, history, etc).
A great website for step-by-step theory instruction, exercises, and quizzes. This website would be great to offering out-of-class instruction or assistance to students who may need extra help. The instruction is organized by concepts (ex. key signatures, chords, etc) and gives helpful tips and tricks to understand the concept being taught.
The American String Teachers Association is filled with helpful resources for string teachers specifically. The "teaching resources" page includes tips for working on string specific content such as bowing technique and left and right hand position.
Percussive Arts Society provides many resources for educators with an inexpensive yearly fee. There is a magazine subscription that provides articles from professional percussionists and educators, as well as several videos and resources on the website.
Rubric builder designs a rubric for teachers using parameters that can be set. This is a great tool for busy teachers that need a quick rubric. Rubrics are necessary for students to understand what they are getting graded on and Rubric Builder makes the rubric making process easier.
Reference videos, podcasts, and interviews by professional string educators. These pedagogues specialize in Suzuki Method string teaching. They offer modern pedagogical techniques utilizing technology. They also offer recorded accompaniments for young students.
Wendy Higdon's website provides useful resources for the band classroom, including recruitment tactics, practice guides, and a blog with further guidance. This site is geared towards the elementary and secondary ensemble setting.
This website offers several different resources that any band director could find useful. The blogs section has a variety of posts detailing the experiences of other educators as well as the different techniques they employ in their classes. It also has a section for materials and different .pdf files that can be used as helpful resources for lesson plans.
The Army Field Band provides a free jazz resource to the public. It is called Perspectives: Resources for Jazz Education. They provide royalty free big band charts from grade 1 through 6. They also have posters and other multimedia resources that include videos, education reference recordings, and a video series on the history of the big band and the individual instruments roll in the band.
I first became familiar with this resource while enrolled in the Creative Thinking course, and it has tremendously helped me fine tune my lessons and procedures. The National Core Arts Standards is a resource that every Music Educator should be familiar with. Educators can reference this resource often to make sure that their planning and activities align with these standards.
The purpose of this resource is to provide a detailed breakdown of the National Core Art Standards. Here you can find standards by subject and strand as well as model cornerstone assessments and student work. This is especially useful if your school district aligns to national standards.
This video provides modeling for developing vibrato for violin players. The instructor is slow, methodical, and clear. This video will be used for my WebQuest.
This video will be a reference for my WebQuest. Hilary Hahn is playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and her type of vibrato will be analyzed by students.
This is an online space where you can hear what you type, played by a variety of sounds. This program is fun to experiment with and one can create a variety of patterns, and share as well.
This site provides an immersive experience for students to get the feeling of what it's like to play in an orchestra. You can view live performances from different camera angles, as if you are playing in the orchestra. They also include functions that allow you to switch views and explore facts about the different instruments and orchestral sections. This would provide a great visual support for active listening group activities in the classroom; the sound and video quality is excellent. This would also be tremendously helpful for students of conducting.
This site provides teachers and students with a rich history of jazz music. Teachers and students can find videos of jazz musicians, repertoire and resources for Jazz Appreciation Month and tips and tricks for teaching jazz concepts such as swing and improvisation.
Smithzonian Jazz has a vast resource of archives, recordings, timelines, lesson plans, and interactive resources support Jazz Education and Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM).
Jazz in America is an all encompassing Jazz education website.
It offers everything from what jazz is and how it began to lesson plans that examine characteristics of all different jazz styles. The website discusses important performers and composers. It also looks at how jazz evolved. Audio and visual examples are provided. Assessments are also provided in this website.
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