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In case you missed it, the February 2009 edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival is up over at The Collaborative Piano Blog. The carnival is still going strong after its 8th edition, and it’s exciting to see it perpetuating! Join in for the March
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Please don’t tell me this picture represents your views! As a teacher, and specifically as a band director, I am not a big fan of Mondays. As a worker, I really love Monday. Why? Great question. Why I don’t like Mondays Kids generally don’t practice over
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My Christmas concert came and went. No, I don’t have a “winter concert” or “holiday concert.” We don’t play winter music at the concert. We don’t play Easter or Halloween or Arbor Day music at the concert. We play Christmas music. So it’s a Christmas
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I hear a lot of bands with good clarinet sections. I have a few bands with bad clarinet sections. I hear a few bands with great clarinet sections. What I will tell you in these next few paragraphs will definitely transform any bad clarinet section into
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My band sounds good. My band behaves very very well. My band is going to be great this year. This comes as the result of 6 years of learning from my mistakes. It wasn’t always that way. When I got them in August, I didn’t know how it was going to work
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The new Music Education Blog Carnival is up over at Elementary Music/Music Technology Blog. Go check it out! © SoYouWantToTeach.com - visit So You Want To Teach? for more great content.
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I’ve been meaning to take some time to reflect in writing about the conversation I’ve been engaged in recently with a cohort of National Writing Project colleagues concerning Content Area Literacy. I’m a former H.S. English teacher who now works in professional
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Greg recently commented on an article my site. As I typically do, I went to look at his blog Total Music Education and see what he’s all about. His blog intrigues me. I didn’t have time to read through his entire site, but what I can gather is that he
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Welcome to the very first edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival! I have sorted through the submissions, weeded through them some, and now present to you some absolutely terrific articles here! We’ll start out by sorting things out a little bit.
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On July 1st, 2008 the very first Music Education Blog Carnival will be featured on So You Want To Teach? This is something that Joseph Pisano over at MusTech.Net and I have been discussing for a couple of months, and we have finally gotten around to starting
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In the music performance world, we have concert and sight reading competitions. My band will be going to the UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest next week. In preparation for that, I have created a simple handout that I passed out to my band students.
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I recently got a little $20 voice recorded device for my iPod because I figured it might make good quality recordings of class. I was right. Here’s 25 minutes from this past Friday’s woodwind class for those who want to hear what goes on in my classroom.
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I returned home from the Texas Music Educators Association clinic and convention this weekend. It was different TMEA experience for me than what I have been accustomed to in the past. One of the primary reasons for this was because I desperately needed
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In the band world, we have a whole concept of bringing in a clinician . This is basically a chance for us to get another, more experienced teacher to come in and tell our kids all the same stuff we’ve been telling them in a different way. Until this morning,
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I have been blogging about teaching for a while. I came across a post by Joseph Pisano ( the original post is here ) where he is trying to get at least 100 Music Education Bloggers blogging about music education or music technology. Part of me has been
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