Yay Storytime! Stompin At The Savoy
25 Music-Themed Children’s Picture Books for the General Music Classroom By Thomas Amoriello Jr.Immediate Past Chair of the NAfME Council for Guitar Education Reprinted with […]
Curriculum
Reflective Music Teaching
Guidance for Early-Career Teachers By NAfME Members Erik Piazza and John Mills Reprinted with permission from Music in the Minuet blog. https://nafme.org/reflective-music-teaching/ The start of […]
The Path to Greatness: Music Selection Grid and taking Ownership
By Angela Harman Reprinted with permission from the Orchestra Teacher blog http://orchestrateacher.blogspot.com/. I’ve been thinking a lot about the different playing abilities in my classes. […]
The Promise of Artistic Process: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Aligns the Standards
By NAfME Members Scott Edgar, Fran Kick, and Lori Schwartz Reichl Reprinted with permission from Music in a Minuet NAfME blog. Click here to access […]
Bitmoji Classrooms: Why Teachers Are Buzzing About Them
By Catherine Gewertz Partial reprint obtained with permission from Education Week. If social media posts are any indication, Bitmoji classrooms are becoming a teacher obsession. Since […]
Teaching While Social Distancing
By Aileen Miracle Reprinted with permission from Mrs. Miracle’s Music Room blog. Are you wondering how you will teach while social distancing? Struggling with what […]
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, […]
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. […]