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This page provides links to the All Star Orchestra education pages on Kahn Academy. Topics include masterworks, theory, instruments, and even conducting. This is a great resource to be used in the classroom.

Ways to get a 'giving Bach' organization started with your own ensemble. Although it does not help with curricular topics, it still provides a valuable resource for any teacher.

This is an excellent blog post detailing the steps for utilizing and more specifically creating a Kahoot game. Kahoot can be used for reviewing test questions, instrument families, pitch names, or rhythmic examples. This article details tips and tricks for creating a game for your class.

In this blog post, Bernadette describes the scenarios and performing experiences she has provided for her students. She focuses on the aspect of student confidence and how performance can build confidence.

This is the music educators association for the state I teach in. The resources will help me to keep current with state happenings.

This is the professional organization for music educators in my home state of Virginia. This site offers information about conferences, meetings, honors groups, and general information of importance to music teachers in Virginia,

(a) The purpose of the resource is to teach music theory in a sequential, visual way. It can be used from elementary age students to college level students. (b) The specific musical content addressed in this resource is reading and understanding standardized notation, rhythmic reading, scales, key signature, intervals,  and chord progressions (diatonic, neopolitan) (c) I would use this technology for instructional use in the classroom. 

This website is a great resource for music theory lessons. Works well on white board but even better with a smart board and involving student interaction. Starts with the staff and goes all the way through analysis.

Musicyheory .net is a good start for my students because in my program we rarely have time to go over any type of music theory. This online music resource starts individuals from learning about the staff all the way to understanding how to analyze a composition or arrangement.

The San Francisco Symphony has created a way for composers and their work to come alive for students. Through this site, students can learn about various composers, musical techniques, musical history, and scores by way of working through "evidence" to arrive at conclusions about given pieces.

An excellent interactive website designed to help students learn about composers, look at the score, listen to specific compositions etc.

The San Francisco Symphony provides a variety of engaging, interactive resources for students to learn about composers, instruments, music history, and repertoire.

This is resource for any music educator teaching violin (or other stringed instrument) to a student. This excellent one page information sheet provides vital instructions to beginning players on violin basics such as care for and maintain the instrument and great tips and advise on renting or purchasing the instrument. This is a quick and valuable information sheet for educators to print and give to beginning students.

Care and maintenance of string instruments.

This is a website geared for string musicians or educators. This website provides string teachers with many professional development opportunities! Educators are able to share information about their various programs, and offer suggestions to one another. There are so many teaching resources on this website and one of the best parts is as a member, you are able to watch the recorded sessions from the National Conferences which are sometimes hard to attend. These sessions are extremely important for string teachers to see what teachers from around the country are doing in their own program. It offers great opportunities for networking as well as for anyone who is seeking work in another location.

The website for the American String Teachers Association.

This website has a collection of information about teaching music with technology to the students not involved in traditional ensembles. It has profiles of programs in schools, articles, and research about reaching the other 80% of secondary students.

The web page for the Midwest Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference that takes place annually in Chicago. A plethora of resources about music teaching can be found here as well as information about the conference itself.

The website for the "President's Own" United States Marine Band includes many educational resources. Along with high quality recordings by a phenomenal ensemble, the site offers many other educational aspects, including three volumes of the marches of John Philip Sousa. The marches may be downloaded in PDF format and used by any ensemble. They include the scores, parts, and detailed information on each march. This is great to use in order to teach students about marches and their forms.

US Marine Band educational page. Including lots of information on Sousa marches (Sousa March mania, a cool activity to do with students), recordings, etc.

This website is Dr. Bauer's collection of professional articles that was shared with the students in the UFL graduate program. There are articles and resources on a variety of music and music teaching topics.