The Choristers Guild foundation promotes the music and spiritual development of young singers. I am interested in learning more about the organization. Members have access to online tutorial teaching videos, skype lessons, and monthly jounral subscriptions. Benefits of membership also include discounted rates on ordering music. This looks like a wonderful organization that would be beneficial to a choral educator.
Site offers educational rap music videos that cover a variety of subjects including math, science, history, and current events. Also provides interactive and online lesson plans, quizzes, and activities related to each video. Requires small subscription fee (~$1/month) but well worth it. Great way to use music for cross-curricular teaching.
This website contains valuable resources for music educators and students for all areas and educational levels. The webiste also contains links for other important websites one might be interested in.
This website is a collection of music websites that K-12 music educators can use in the classroom. The links are grouped by band, choir, orchestra, classroom, all music.
This is a collection of links to various sites and resources for use by music teachers and students. The purpose is to provide access to recordings, videos, master classes, tips, lessons, and a variety of other resources. The site contains links to fingering charts, videos, and musical recordings for various ensembles including band, orchestra, and choir.
A source for links to music education blogs. Blogs are categorized -- elementary, middle school, high school, kodaly-inspired, orff-inspired, technology, choir, orchestra etc.
A source for links to music education blogs. Blogs are categorized -- elementary, middle school, high school, kodaly-inspired, orff-inspired, technology, choir, orchestra etc.
The Music Education Blogs link contains links to blogs for all sorts of music educators. The links are catered to specific school settings, teaching methodologies, ensembles, and free online services. I enjoyed exploring several of the blogs because blogging is something I've just become acquainted to within my graduate studies with the University of Florida's Online Master of Music. For example, I clicked on the "Elementary Blogs" tab to see what some of my elementary music educator colleagues have to say/share. A handful of links to other teachers' blogs and websites were made available at a click of the mouse. I clicked on the first link, "Mrs. Miracle's Music Room," and was able to read posts from "Mrs. Miracle" about her teaching strategies for classroom management when utilizing technology. Her blog contained other features like a personal bio and links. My blog for this course doesn't contain those things, and perhaps exploring the blogger.com website more would allow me to make similar changes to my Blog.
Being able to share ideas within any online community, in this case a blogging community, could be so useful for any sort of educator. Considering we are currently enrolled in an online Master of Music program, we are capable of sharing ideas from across the country and even across the globe. This blog link just makes that possibility more accessible with more educators.
For persons that enjoy reading blogs, this is the place for you. Separated into pages from elementary to high school, Kodaly and Orff-inspired, choir or orchestra, there is something for everyone.
This site provides excellent resources for incorporating the history of rock & roll in a general music class. The digital classroom on the website includes lesson plans, listening guides, and teaching content.
This site provides a plethora of information for music educators. There are resources for guitar, instrumental at different levels, lesson plans, warm-ups, audio recordings, and more.
This is a flash-based musical game site that has several different activities that are appropriate for elementary students. The site is very engaging for that age student and easy to navigate.
a) The purpose of the resource is to provide interactive activities and games for students covering an array of musical subjects for use in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers EVERY national music standard! (c) I would use the free version of this site more for free-time activities and games.
Website offers a few free items for use on the IWB. I do not own a license for the paid items but the school where I student taught used this program on daily basis.
This is a fantastic flash-based website with many free music games. Students can create an avatar that moves around Quaver's music shop and studio, finding music games to play. Games focus on composition, ear training, and responding. The free games are just the beginning- Quaver Music offers a comprehensive, standards-based K-6 curriculum that is loaded with hundreds of interactive songs, lesson plans, assessment tools, video episodes, games, and more. An annual subscription is required, but teachers can purchase smaller sections of the curriculum to meet their specific needs.
This is a cloud-based music education software with lesson plans, project ideas, audio, video, games, and other special activities to assist teaching new content from note values, line and space identification, world music, and other content.
How to make accommodations for music students with special needs has always been a topic of conversation; however, as author Mary Rogelstad suggests, we have nothing to fear; among her list of recommended strategies for effective differentiation are items like teaching lessons that appeal to multiple senses and varying the speed of the content, or repertoire, to be learned and performed. As you can see, Rogelstad provides a sort of manual that helps us help our students to reach their maximum potential.
The FAME website provides information on the pedagogical approach advocated by John Feierabend, lesson resources, FAQ's, as well as locations for trainings and additional publications. There are thorough explanations on the First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege curricula developed by Dr. Feierabend for those who want to learn more or want to advocate for his methodology. A thorough explanation of the musical content and learning objectives (tuneful, beatful, artful) are also available. A podcast hosted by Dr. Feierabend himself is available to members. Some services, like teacher resources, are also only available to members but have incredibly valuable.
Violin Online is a website devoted to the violin. It includes information about violin basics, such as how to set up the violin and start playing the violin, violin fingering charts, violin care, violin practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the violin and online lessons for the violin. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history.
Online Practice Record is a fantastic tool to aide performers of all levels with keeping a record of their practice. The program is easy to use and tracks practice time, music practiced, and questions or comments the user might have to refer to later. The records can be printed or emailed to others, which is an important feature for teachers. The teacher even has the option of entering comments directly into a practice record.
This site is great for teachers looking to motivate students to practice more consistently. Its purpose is to make practicing more interactive by providing a record of student practicing and the opportunity for teachers to view and comment on the student's practicing. The recourses include practice logs, comments by teachers, student-set goals, and the pieces practiced. This site is very student-directed in the sense that the students set their own practice goals and must be motivated to be more successful in their practicing in order to make progress in their record of practicing statistics. Although you do have to register to use this site, there is no charge and it allows teachers to provdie students with some guidance in their practicing.
This is a website that students can use to track their daily practice habits. It tracks amount of time, what was practiced and all records can be printed off for students to analyze. The lesson teacher is also able to add comments on each post.
Classic Cat is a website that hosts over 6,000 classical recordings. The user is able to look up songs by composer, title and genre. It also houses a link to "Young Composers". Each recording is a full recording. This is perfect supplement to any Music Appreciation lesson plan while studying the Classical Era.
This is an ear training game using a "matching card" format. It looks simple and almost boring, however, once a person starts playing the game it becomes very interesting, This is well suited for middle school as it does not appear to "babyish".
Note pair is an online music game designed to help children read music notes easily and quickly. This game helps children learn to read music notes step by step, at their own pace. A child listens to a note, and tries to match it to a similar note. This ear training computer game lets you learn music notes and their pitches.
Students and pupils who play a musical instrument as a child have a better verbal memory than those with no music training. Aural listening skills enhance brain development and students who listen more to music are calm, critical thinkers, and confident.
Introducing such a game as a lesson starter even for classes that are not learning music fosters concentration and interest of the learners. Their brain becomes alert and ready to take in any information.
MusicTheory.net is a great website to teach theory to students. It has lessons on a variety of topics, interactive exercises to support the theory topics, and tools that could be used in conjunction with other activities in the classroom. There are also apps available for devices. The best part is that the exercises can be customized (scroll down to the bottom of the exercise or tools pages) with a permanent link so that students can take quizzes or have additional practice for specifics without having to change the settings for themselves. For example, note identification can be customized to the clef and range of a specific instrument and sent to those students for practice or quizzes.
If you teach Music Technology, you simply MUST check this site once a month at a minimum. The Splice community area usually has at least one active remix contest where you can download professional STEMs (multitracks) to use in your own DAW projects / lesson plans. Your students will LOVE this!
This website has hundreds of great resources for elementary education and often includes great lesson ideas. Faeries and Giants is one of my favorites to do with 4k when learning highs and lows