DIY Instruments ideas and lesson plan examples for teachers on a budget
Via redtedart.com It’s time to throw away your rubber-band tissue boxes! Children love music as much as they enjoy making things! Having your students help to build their own…
Category: General Music Education
Tips and Trick to use when your students are having a tough time remembering lyrics
Holiday and Winter concerts are quickly approaching! What tricks can you use when your young singers are having a tough time remembering lyrics? Here are a few recommendations from NAfME…
Looking for some "spooktacular" Halloween songs and activities to use with your music students? Use these if you dare!
Halloween is right around the corner! We’ve put together a few classroom ideas, links to free piano sheet music, and even boomwhacker activities for you to use with your…
Seeking Applications for GMT Editorial Committee Members
Request for Applications for Editorial Committee Members:General Music Today General Music Today is seeking nominations for members of its Editorial Committee. Members of the GMT Editorial Committee will begin duties…
"Strategies for Working with Special Needs Students in the General Music Classroom"
by Dr. Michelle Hairston, East Carolina University Adapted with permission from “The North Carolina Music Educator” Fall/Summer 2013 Music classes in today’s educational system have changed substantially. With the implementation…
Websites for the Classroom – Opus #3 – Symbaloo
Symbaloo is a great way to share a series of links with your students or colleagues. Symbaloo has a great interface that you can use to organize your internet life using webmixes.…
I Heard That! Listening to Classical Music—a Video Resource
Peer teaching is an effective strategy for the music classroom. The Virginia Chamber Orchestra (VCO) has made a video, “I Heard That! Listening to Classical Music,” that uses students to…
New Instrumentation, Deadline for NAfME Student Composers Contest
The 2013 NAfME Student Composers Contest will allow student composers K-12, and Collegiate the freedom to compose for any combination of instruments and/or voices, or for instrumental or vocal solo. Compositions must…
Websites for the Classroom – Opus #2 – Class Dojo
Behavior Management. A term that can strike terror in the General Music Classroom teacher’s heart. But, fear not! ClassDojo to the rescue! I recently discovered this incredible positive behavior management tool. You can…
Websites for The Classroom – Opus #1
Are you looking for websites to engage and enhance your classroom? The Internet has a plethora of sites – some good, some not so good – that you can start…