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National Association for Music Education for music educators. 

This is a nation wide, multiple chapters of the American String Teacher Association. Much like NAfME, ASTA give a wonderful string standards to use in lesson plans. Journals can be accessed from the site under the membership. There are competitions, conferences, instrument outreach and job posting. This is just for string educators with many resources and support around the nation.

This is a nation wide, multiple chapters of the American String Teacher Association. Much like NAfME, ASTA give a wonderful string standards to use in lesson plans. Journals can be accessed from the site under the membership. There are competitions, conferences, instrument outreach and job posting. This is just for string educators with many resources and support around the nation.

Here are some excellent ideas for introducing various tempo and rhythmic patters to students of grade levels K through 5. The examples go over steady beats, eighth not patterns, and dynamic changes of loud and soft. The first few examples do not specify grade levels but the later examples do. The grade levels are highlighted in yellow.

This article discusses strategies that can be used to continue to encourage students' creativity in music through pedagogical techniques.

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!

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.

This is a compilation of scholarship resources for music students currently in high school.

Great article about Wynton Marsalis' view on jazz and music education. He has entered a partnership to bring jazz music into music education. As an indigenous form of American music, we need to preserve and teach it to our students.

Great article about Wynton Marsalis' view on jazz and music education. He has entered a partnership to bring jazz music into music education. As an indigenous form of American music, we need to preserve and teach it to our students.

Here is a great website for teachers wanting to know about Orff. It includes lesson plans, NAFME standards, a link to the Orff website, and ORFF WITH TECHNOLOGY!

This site is the Mecca for music educators, and this is our Bible. These are our national standards for music education and are vitally important to the education of our students. Mathis is the foundation from which we teach.

This site has the 9 national music standards. The purpose of this resource is to have it bookmarked so I can look back quickly and make sure I am getting the most out of all of my lessons.

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

An education organization dedicated to all aspects of music education. They advocate at the local, state, and national levels. They support music educators of all teaching levels.

Core Music Standard vocabulary to incorporate in curriculum.

These four short videos give a quick and clear understanding of the basic concepts of Jazz.  

This sites contains downloadable links that contain very lucid and practical curricular ideas and suggestion for beginning and intermediate guitar classes and ensembles. The language is targeted at two groups: those teachers who are starting guitar programs and those teachers who themselves are not proficient guitarists yet are teaching a guitar class. The "further reading" at the bottom is icing in the cake.

This article brings awareness of diversity in students and activities music educators participated in to receive a different perceptive pf how to engage with students.

This article provides several ways to integrate technology in the music classroom. To aid in administrating, the article suggests Google Drive using Google Docs and Google Forms. I personally am a huge fan of Google Classroom. The article also provides software such as SmartMusic for instructional use.

Describes ways that the teacher can incorporate Google Classroom into the large ensemble classroom.

Using Google Classroom in a general music room makes a lot of sense. Your students can do research, turn in papers, forms, and tests, all online. How about a large ensemble though? Google Classroom is a tool that you will want to utilize for your playing tests. Students can record themselves and submit their recordings for you to view. This allows them to practice and record at home without taking up valuable performance time during school.

There was a big shift in the music education standards in 2014. Sometimes it's difficult to remember what standards we are supposed to teach as we try to plan our curriculum around performances. Here's a quick reminder!