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Hal Leonard Corporation

One of America's best-loved musical personalities shares his passion, humor, and insights, helping to revitalize and reenergize teachers! This includes 366 short essays - one for each day of the year, including leap day - to help educators rediscover the energy and creativity that brought them to teaching in the first place, and inspire the artist within! Through the readings in this beautifully designed daily companion, a teacher will reawaken to the connection between one's personal art and the art of teaching, tapping the restorative power of creativity in nourishing the soul.

The Artist Within Me

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Ultimate Music Theory Ltd.

Ultimate Music Theory is a proven and complete system that uses an easy, step-by-step process along with accelerated learning techniques to help every level of student master their understanding of music theory. Designed to follow a student from beginning to advanced level, this series will help ensure each student comes to class with the same core knowledge. The Prep 2 rudiment book is coil-bound and includes the UMT guide and chart, 12 step-by-step lessons, and review tests designed to dramatically increase retention and understanding. The accompanying Level 2 and 3 supplemental books are designed to supplement the student's understanding through the study of form and analysis, melody writing, and music history. The Answer Books for the rudiment and supplemental books mirror the student books and make grading a breeze for the teacher. This level is appropriate for grades 5-6  or the advanced beginner student. The Exam Workbooks each contain four comprehensive summative exams, plus tips to help students score 100% on any music theory exam.

Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Level

Book Prep 2 Rudiments Workbook

Written by two of the world's leaders in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, this resource brings together all of the elements that make teaching movement with choral music such a success. This includes videos using choirs and students at every level from elementary to college and is endorsed by ACDA executive director Hilary Apfelstadt, who says "This book is well organized, clearly written, and broadly applicable to multiple teaching contexts. I highly recommend this as an essential resource in every choral educators' library." Video is accessible online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded.

Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the Choral Classroom

Book & Online Media

Ultimate Music Theory is a proven and complete system that uses an easy, step-by-step process along with accelerated learning techniques to help every level of student master their understanding of music theory. Designed to follow a student from beginning to advanced level, this series will help ensure each student comes to class with the same core knowledge. The Prep 1 Rudiment book is coil-bound and includes the UMT guide and chart, 12 step-by-step lessons, and review tests designed to dramatically increase retention and understanding. The accompanying Prep 1 supplemental book is designed to supplement the student's understanding through the study of form and analysis, melody writing, and music history. The Answer Books for the rudiment and supplemental book mirror the student books and make grading a breeze for the teacher. This level is appropriate for grades 3-4 or the beginning-level student.

Ultimate Music Theory Prep 1 Level

Book Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook

GIA Publications

Continuing the themes from the first volume Teaching With Heart, this second volume in the series exists to help teachers create a healthy culture in their classroom. With tools that will help teachers get to know their students better and get students to think more broadly about music and society, this book is less about notes and rhythms and more about connecting to each other and to the idea of conveying emotion and feeling through art. Developed with the help of ten outstanding contributors, it encompasses a variety of arts disciplines, including band, orchestra, chorus, theater, musical theater, dance, and visual art. Each module addresses National Core Arts Standards and social-emotional learning standards. They contain activities that can be modified to suit any grade level, thought-provoking suggestions for community engagement, and suggested choral and instrumental repertoire that inspires empathy, unity, and connection. The book also includes more than 100 digital links for learning and reference as well as Quick Direct Icons to Read, Watch, Listen, Respond, Discuss, Record, Perform, and Present.

Teaching Beyond the Music

This important book takes you through the steps needed to create an effective music education curriculum for you, your school, and your district. This second edition aligns with the national standards for music released in 2014. A sequenced music curriculum is the ultimate win-win for your program: it gives direction to your teaching, builds cohesion among your colleagues, engages students and parents in goals you set, and builds awareness and support from your school's administrators. This book contains the blueprint and examples to help you build the right curriculum for your music program, demystifying the processes of developing a standards-based curriculum with related assessments of student learning.

Music Curriculum Writing 101

Reichert Verlag

A practical handbook for working vocally with children aged 8 to 12 years. Singing means the development of the personality... and this involves more than just performing songs. Illustrated with vivid photographs, drawings and examples in musical notation and clearly organized according to topics this book contains: breathing, speech and vocal games; rhythmic and movement games; games for listening and invention; dances and songs; aids to acquiring a sense of pitch and intonation; models for the structuring of a lesson; detailed background information and explanation of all games and topics

Lively Children's Choir

C.F. Peters Corporation

Everything we do is music contains more than 50 fun, hands-on and thought-provoking activities, each taking a work by John Cage as a starting point and exploring the links between music, dance, visual art, poetry and nature.

Everything We Do Is Music

OAKE National Office

Lesson Planning in a Kodály Setting – A Guide for Music Teachers is a practical guide to provide music teachers with a means to develop their lesson planning skills by providing guidelines and structure for creating flowing, musical lessons.
 
Additional areas covered within the book include:
Value statements of teachers committed to Zoltán Kodály’s philosophy of music;
Long-term planning considerations;
Assessment and evaluation;
Goals in lesson planning;
Strategy planning and sequencing skills;
Developing a song materials list;
The three “P’s” – preparation, presentation and practice;
Designing a focus that includes a review, point and reinforcement;
Sample presentation lesson;
Transition types with examples;
Sample lesson planning forms and flow charts.
 
There are five appendixes:
Sample Lesson Plans for Grades 1 -3;
Practice Objectives for Rhythmic Skill and Melodic Skill Development;
Rhythm Duration Syllables;
Bibliography of Selected Song Materials and Suggested Readings;
Discography.

Lesson Planning in a Kodaly Setting

Routledge & Kegan

World Music Pedagogy, Volume II: Elementary Music Education delves into the theory and practices of World Music Pedagogy with children in grades 1-6 (ages 6-12). It specifically addresses how World Music Pedagogy applies to the characteristic learning needs of elementary school children: this stage of a child’s development—when minds are opening up to broader perspectives on the world—presents opportunities to develop meaningful multicultural understanding alongside musical knowledge and skills that can last a lifetime.

World Music Pedagogy Vol. 2 Elementary Music Education

World Music Pedagogy, Volume I: Early Childhood Education is a resource for music educators to explore the intersection of early childhood music pedagogy and music in cultural contexts across the world. Focusing on the musical lives of children in preschool, kindergarten, and grade 1 (ages birth to 7 years), this volume provides an overview of age-appropriate world music teaching and learning encounters that include informal versus formal teaching approaches and a selection of musical learning aids and materials. It implements multimodal approaches encompassing singing, listening, movement, storytelling, and instrumental performance.

World Music Pedagogy Vol. 1 : Early Childhood Education

Instrument

Oxford University Press

This is a comprehensive resource for general classroom teachers, music and drama educators. The book provides strategies for including musical theater across the K-12 curriculum, inviting teachers and arts specialists to utilize musical theater as an interdisciplinary art form within their own classrooms, or as collaborative projects throughout the school community. Typically relegated to after-school activities, musical theater can have a strong place both as an avenue for performance, creativity, and self-expression, or as a pathway for student learning about academic subjects. Act I: overview of the art form. Act II: outlines ways of integrating musical theater into the curriculum with considerations for the National Core Arts Standards. Act III: provides suggestions for auditions, casting, rehearsing, and presenting a complete production, with a specific focus on student-centered performances.

Musical Theater in Schools Purpose, Process, Performance

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Alfred Music Publishing

This journal invites music educators to focus on the positive aspects of being a teacher and musician. The flexible format allows for entries on your own schedule, and it will remind you of what's truly important and inspire positive change. Includes inspiring quotes, habit trackers, and simple yet insightful writing prompts that lead you to express appreciation, reflect on your teaching, and ignite the joy of making music. A perfect gift for every music educator!

A Music Teacher's Gratitude Journal

An accessible and practical guide for general music teachers interested in learning about and incorporating the innovative concepts and ideas of Music Learning Theory in their own instruction.

Navigating Music Learning Theory

This practical resource for music educators provides 15 fully developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans with assessments that are aligned to articulate learning from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons and adaptations for K-12 music and STEM classes, educators and administrators can better understand and immediately use tools for planning, assessing, and the practical integration of STEM with music.

Integrating STEM with Music

This book is designed to support K-5 classroom teachers as they integrate music throughout the elementary curriculum. It contains detailed, practical ideas and examples, including full lesson plans and over 100 teaching ideas and strategies for integrating music with visual art, language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. Following an overview of the interdisciplinary approach, the remaining chapters explore connections between music and other areas of the elementary curriculum. Each chapter also includes a section addressing national standards with tables showing the specific standards that are included in each lesson and activity. This text utilizes the most recent National Core Arts Standards (2015) as well as the most recent standards in mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. All the lessons in this book are designed to be fully taught by classroom teachers; the content is accessible to those who lack formal music training, yet is solidly rooted in research and best practices. While classroom teachers can teach these lessons on their own, this book may facilitate partnerships and collaboration between classroom teachers and music specialists. All the lessons and activities included in this text have been reviewed by practicing teachers and most have been field tested in elementary classrooms. Throughout the book, there is an emphasis on interdisciplinary lessons that demonstrate valid connections between disciplines while maintaining the integrity of each discipline involved, including a teacher-tested model that allows teachers to successfully create their own interdisciplinary lessons.

Integrating Music Across the Elementary Curriculum

Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think about the world around them, this book seeks to help implement social justice practices in music classes and ensembles at the elementary and middle school levels. Each chapter engages with important themes through music making and presents examples of dialogue with students, unit ideas, and lesson plans geared toward students between 6-14 years old. Tackling subjects often considered beyond the understanding of younger students, this book respects the voice and critical thinking of the student. Suggestions are given that help reflect and redirect dialogue, with questions that address bias, misinformation, and misunderstandings that too often stand in the way of coming to know and embracing diversity. The book also includes legally grounded arguments appropriate for school board presentations and ready-to-go classroom-tested lesson plans.

Music & Social Justice

This timely resource directly addresses societal issues in our music classrooms. Discussing both music and social issues, this valuable resource helps you address these challenging topics with your students and provides the context for meaningful discussions. Developed with the help of nine outstanding contributors and ten composers and arrangers, this tool will help students understand how diverse repertoire can be used for musical development as well as a way to enhance critical thinking and social-emotional learning. The book asks students to read, watch, and listen, and then respond and discuss. The course pack includes 25 digitally downloadable student textbooks; four hours of video interviews with composers featured on the album The Aeolians (available separately); 175 digital links for learning and reference; and Quick Direct Icons to Read, Watch, Listen, Respond, Discuss, Record, Perform, and Present. All modules address National Core Arts Standards and Social-Emotional Learning Standards and contain creative activities including pedagogy, creating video, visual arts, poetry, and text.

Teaching with Heart

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Schott Music Distribution

Why was Orff-Schulwerk created? What are its founding principles? How do these shape our understanding of elemental music and dance pedagogy? This handbook for both students and teachers provides the answers. It includes: the genesis of Orff-Schulwerk; the development of Orff instruments; the educational principles of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman; goals, content and methods of elemental music making; and lesson plan guidelines.

Orff-Schulwerk Handbook

Pentatonic Press

Orff Schulwerk in Diverse Cultures : An Idea That Went Round the World

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