Online Teaching Resources: Band, Choir, Orchestra, & Elementary!
Resources for Online Teaching Program Health Professional Development Yamaha Staff March 24, 2020 Updated 4/17/2020 at 1:48 p.m. PST During this trying and uncertain time, […]
Curriculum
The Hidden Curriculum: What are you teaching?
A hidden curriculum is an unavoidable issue for music educators that needs careful examination. Hidden Curriculum has been defined as “the unspoken or implicit values, […]
News from Kansas Orff
The Kansas Orff Chapter is a professional organization of currently 96 Kansas music educators and is a local chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Orff-Schulwerk […]
Recorder in the Schulwerk: Past and Present
This article first appeared in The Orff Echo Fall 2018 issue, Vol. 51, No. 1. © 2019 American Orff-Schulwerk Association: Chagrin Falls, OH. Used by permission. […]
Hire Music Students … They Have Training!
What do businesses look for in a potential employee? If asked most business owners might answer, “Someone who is punctual, can communicate, learns quickly, is committed […]
It’s Not about Perfection; It’s about the Journey
Over my four decades of studying how to create an ensemble culture that results in consistent levels of excellence, I’ve focused more and more on […]
Young Composers: Score for Success!
In the spirit of this year’s KMEA theme, “Mentoring New Teachers,” it seems appropriate to encourage all music educators, new and veteran, to consider mentoring […]
The Composer Diversity Database
For the last two years, my team and I have been building an online tool intended to help conductors, educators, and researchers find composers from […]
Why MCAs?: A primer on NAfME’s Model Cornerstone Assessments
Introduction A new year is in our midst and professional development certainly is focused on curriculum and new approaches for the upcoming school year. […]
Composing in Elementary Instrumental Music
Reprinted with permission from the Spring 2018 issue of the Maryland Music Educator Author’s Note: Since I only teach strings, my examples are from strings classes. […]
