It seems like programs for children not quite ready for kindergarten are popping up in my area of Michigan and music teachers are being challenged with this new class. These classes are called so many different names – pre-k, young 5s, DK, child development,...
Name: Jennifer Hibbard Store Name: Yellow Brick Road What I Have Taught: I taught elementary music (K-4) for seven years in Indiana. My degree allows me to teach K-12 general music, band, and choir, which means that I was involved in several areas outside of...
Teaching with classic games is a completely logical idea for me. I grew up in a family of game players. No joke – we had a wall of games and often played games that lasted several days. From a young age I was exposed to very educational and strategic games like...
Concert Season! Abandon ship! Once you hit concert season, it seems that all that very specific lesson planning you do with a great prepare/present/practice sequence gets thrown overboard on your ship of lesson plans (sorry for the corny analogy – stay with...
