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Incorporate music into your curriculum, with these lesson plans. You'll find plenty of activities to keep your students interested and engaged while they sing songs, play instruments, and learn about musical genres.
SmartMusic transforms the way students practice and learn. This interactive tool, used by music educators across the country to enhance their programs, provides a way to dramatically improve students' skills. As students play along with music onscreen, SmartMusic gives them immediate feedback on their performance by showing correct pitches and rhythms in green and incorrect in red.
ISER is now offering this directory of software and assistive technology for special needs kids and adults. We are a new directory and we will categorize the software by type as the directory grows. We will be listing software for people with many learning disabilities, including dyslexia, ADD/ADHD issues, vision problems, auditory problems, as well as other disabilities.
Helping English Language Learners in the Classroom From urban to rural settings, most schools are responsible for educating English Language Learners (ELLs). For students who are learning English as a second language, school can represent a formidable daily task, both socially and academically.
One of the benefits of music is that it can be utilized to teach other subjects such as math and science. Music can be very effective when trying to learn a new concept (i.e. multiplication table) or memorizing facts (i.e. historical data).
Creating presentations and slideshows is one of the needed skills for both teachers and students. Unfortunately many teachers still find it hard to arrange data into a catchy slideshow to share with students. Below is a list of some of the best free tools teachers and students can use to create awesome slideshow and presentations.
I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure-fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade-level standards, accessing students' creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on .
Our Common Core Standards exist to support students' future success -- namely, college and career readiness. As a former K-12 music teacher now in charge of a music career preparation program for college students, I feel confident asserting that creativity and problem-solving skills acquired through arts training have prepared my students uniquely for their future success. I am truly honored to share with you my thoughts regarding integrating arts into your curriculum.
Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. In 2010, we covered our favorite 100 video sites for educators, and we've now updated our list for 2012 with more than 100 resources and more than 25 brand new entries.
1. To promote the education of popular music (advocacy) 2. To create educational opportunities for educators and students of popular music at all levels 3. To identify, develop, and promote best practices in the teaching and learning of popular music 4. To encourage a connection between the music industries and popular music education 5.
Having a background as a music teacher, I often get the asked what resources are available for homeschoolers to grow in their music studies. As such, today I'd like to share with you an Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games available for FREE to public and homeschoolers alike to have fun while learning more about music.
One humongous list of free online music education games organized by aural training, composers, composition, instruments, notation, symbols/vocabulary and variety.