Five Ways to Learn This Summer
by Aileen Miracle Reprinted with permission from Mrs. Miracle’s Music Room. With summer here, you may be wondering which classes and professional development to take, […]
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Teacher Routines for Concurrent Music Teaching
By Elizabeth Caldwell Reprinted with permission from the music blog Organized Chaos: Purposeful Creativity at Home & In the Music Room I’ve been teaching concurrently- […]
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 […]
Perfectionism in the Elementary Music Classroom
by Stephanie Owen I self-define myself as a perfectionist and it has often brought me feelings of failure, disappointment, and anxiety. Even as a child […]
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, […]
Growth Mindset in Elementary Music
As a young researcher in the 1970s, Carol Dweck studied how students encountered failure. Throughout her work, she realized that some students blossomed in the […]
Influencing At Risk Students through Routine and Procedure
Reprinted with permission from the Spring 2018 issue of the Oregon Music Educator. Are kids changing, or is it just me? I’m sure educators have […]
Music Educators: An Important Part of the Solution to the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
Reprinted with permission from the Utah Music Educators Journal, Fall 2018, Vol. 64, No. 2 Adolescence is a time of rapid physical, social, cognitive, and emotional […]
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 […]