Teachnology offers music educators a vast assortment of planning tools for all subject areas, including music education. Plans are broken down by age levels to make planning easier. These plans could easily be taken and tweaked for any music classroom, more than likely leading to the creation of original ideas by educators.
This is a website that links to various rubric-creating formats, designed to save educators time and effort in making more visually-appealing assessment tools. There is a brief article that discusses the benefits of implementing a rubric in assessment, and there are multiple links to other articles that discuss the pros and cons of utilizing rubrics at various levels of education. Within the initial article are 25 different formats, some more topic-specific than others, to generate rubrics with pictures and descriptions. It is easy to use and much more efficient than creating a rubric from scratch.