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Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. Smartmusic is an incredible resource that can be used in the classroom to aid in individual assessment. It allows for a student to be accompanied and even record assignments to be turned into the teacher. This program greatly reduces class time spent on assessment!

SmartMusic is a great program on it's own for teaching music. But they also offer advice on other great resources, such as those on this page.

This website has many resources to learn and practice theory. there are tutorials and exercises to practice/learn as well as references and articles to read about analysis.

Teoria is a Music Theory website (similar to musictheory.com) that offers step-by-step instructions on a wide variety of music theory concepts. The quizzes are helpful in assessing students in their understanding of theory concepts and allow the teacher to edit the types of questions on the quiz, the time limits, and the opportunity to correct the answers.

This website is a great tool for students to work on their music theory and ear training skills. Students can work individually on this website to complete different exercises and review music theory concepts.

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.

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.

Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. Google classroom has become an incredible resource for me. I didn't fully understand the potential that the program offers but it truly takes a lot of administrative work off my desk. Google Forms will create student progress spread sheets. Students can record an mp3 file of themselves through a program like GarageBand and submit to the classroom for assessment. I can add lectures and resources to my class to allow them to study for written exams.

This site is FANTASTIC, and I hope it never goes away! It's got each instrument's preeminent part from Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" and I use it as review as well as for a summative listening assessment where students have to identify the instrument that's playing.

Blog Post by Ryan Sargent on how to effectively lesson plan as a music teacher. Ryan gives tips on standards, objectives and assessment music teachers can use to become more effective lesson planners.

Carnegie Hall provides music educators with resources to use with students in K-5. There are various activities, exercises, class games, and assessments that incorporate songs, instruments, and various styles of music. Some concepts taught include rhythm, meter, form, pitch, expressive qualities, and overall performance. Activities and resources are categorized by appropriate grade levels. This website also links to other educational resources, programs, and opportunities that music educators can utilize to benefit themselves and their music students.

Music Teacher Tools & Resources is a resource for teachers in grades K-5 and includes lesson plans, assessments, listening examples, activities, and videos. The resources also integrate the elements of music with engaging activities. A wonderful resource to use and/or complement any lesson.

The purpose of this website is to provide music educators with tools that address music fundamentals. The site also had digital music learning options that provide professional development for educators as well as connect students to diverse musical communities. The resource provides unique learning opportunities for elementary students.

This site contains lessons, worksheets, and quizzes for young music students. In addition, there are links to other music tech related resources and suggested reading materials and other supplies

Amazing resource for lesson plans, worksheets, and games to teach students about a wide variety of music topics. This website would be great for creating lesson plans for subs and would also be a great resource if you can't find printed worksheets that address theory. The games are also fun and educational, asking students to identify instruments, tempos, etc. and can act as quizzes that can be scored and printed out. Great resource!

Music Tech Teacher is an open resource offered by Karen Garrett as an extension of her own music classes she had previously been teaching. Ms. Garrett offers free lessons, worksheets and assessments that can be downloaded as .pdfs and used by any teachers looking for materials that could be used within their own classrooms. Ms. Garrett's resources also have a strong focus on teachers looking to specifically make use of technology in their classes.

This blog is written by Lindsay Jervis, a Kodaly trained elementary music teacher. She shares her classroom ideas, successes and failures, and so much more. Each blog post is also linked to her TeachersPayTeachers website so that you can purchase the resources needed for a very affordable price.

Blog and resources focused around teaching through the Kodaly methodology. The author also has substantial resources available for purchase through teachers pay teachers.

A series of annotations on the home page of a Kodaly inspired blog. Features 2 articles.

Understanding by Design Framework is an essential resource when writing and creating curriculum, assessment, and instruction. The stages are explained as well as examples given for each stage. Questions are also asked/given at the end of the article and other resources are listed as well.

Garageband lesson plan/ideas for middle to high school students. Can be adapted to specific needs, but is very well done with a lot of information, including plan outlines, scoring, assessments, and rubrics.

This is Jen Bailey's TPT store, and it is loaded with amazing material for Music Learning Theory teachers, as well as teachers who follow other methodologies. She has many resources for use with a projector or smart board, and other things that are printable. There are resources for assessment, audiation enhancement, movement, literature, holidays, rhythm games, notation resources, songs, recorder, ukulele, and so much more!

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.

This is the blog of an orchestra teacher. She gives advice for beginning and middle school orchestra programs. I have used this blog many times when looking for different resources. She has really great ideas!

This is a great blog for orchestra teachers to obtain useful ideas and information that they can utilize in their classroom. It comes with plenty of ideas, games, assessments, tuning techniques, and other strategies that could be helpful for a new and seasoned teacher.

This website is a resource page for Understanding by Design, by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Backward design aligns desired outcomes, assessments and planning to lead to student understanding.

The purpose of this website provides forums, educational videos and events for Marching Band. Musical content mostly focuses on Marching Band. 

This is a very comprehensive website with articles dealing with just about any topic a band director would ever need when it comes to the classroom. There are instrument specific sections as well as help with instrument repair. I found composer interviews as well as information regarding motivation of students to fundraise.

The purpose of this website is to compile links to access all things band director related. The website includes information and inspiration for topics ranging from fundraising to baton technique. Most of, if not all of the information is compiled to benefit students either directly or indirectly in their classrooms.

A great article showing how to take a well known tune and teach students how to compose their own melody. The article goes through the process of how to teach it. First you help students to write a base line, have them improvise a rhythm, then they can discover the notes of each chord, and write their own melody using chord tones.

This website describes a curriculum for teaching rhythm to instrumental music students. It includes playing exercises, assessments, theory information, games, and formal articles.

This site is a collection and review of multiple music technology resources. There are also curriculum, rubric and assessments designs to help music educator develop instructional design.