Tag: music education
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How to teach time signature in elementary music Teaching elementary students about time signatures in music can be a fun and engaging experience. By incorporating hands-on activities, you can help them grasp the concept easily. Step 1: Understand beat It is impossible to start teaching time signatures without ensuring that students first understand the concept…
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September (and the back to school planning time in August) can be a hopeful but also stressful month for teachers, as we try to make sure that we are starting out on the right foot with EVERYTHING. Often, subjects like music can get pushed to the backburner, especially if you are a non-specialist who is…
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Teaching Music Online – Tips & Ideas
Although any subject is difficult to teach online, teaching music online has to be one of the most difficult. When so many of the curriculum expectations require not only interaction but also performance, having students on the other side of a screen can seem like an impossible hurdle. Tips for Teaching Music Online Focus on…
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Tips for Teaching Step Skip Leap Repeat
Teaching intervals such as step, skip leap and repeat is an essential step in helping students to learn to read music fluently. When students are able to recognize steps skips and leaps in musical notation, it is much easier for them to predict what the music will sound like as well as be able to…
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Trying to teach the Ontario Music Curriculum without the right tools? The Ontario Music Curriculum is an ambitious document that sets a high standard for teaching music in Ontario. But how do you teach it? Unfortunately, this standard is out of reach when the vast majority of teachers do not have the training or musical…
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Teaching the elements of music and looking for worksheets? Doodle-style notes are all the rage in science and math, but doodling notes are actually a natural choice for music classes as well – especially when you’re hoping to make music theory worksheets a little more interesting. What are doodle-style notes? Doodle-style notes are structured worksheets…
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Looking for emergency elementary music sub plans for now… or in the future? The single most important strategy for music sub plans (especially when it is a true emergency) is to have a substitute teacher kit (or “sub tub”) ready to go in advance. That way, you can just write “see sub tub” and feel…
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Beat vs Rhythm Grade 1 Looking for help with a beat vs rhythm lesson plan? Beat and rhythm, although a grade 1 expectation, can be deceptively difficult – especially if you are not a music specialist. Understanding the difference between beat and rhythm is the first and most fundamental concept in the “duration” element of…
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Opera lesson plans for elementary music: Have you introduced opera to your elementary students? A lot of music teachers are afraid to try to include opera in their lesson plans because they assume that elementary students won’t like it. If you aren’t a music specialist, you may not know much about opera yourself. But teaching…
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An orchestra conducting lesson is an excellent addition to your elementary music plans. Music teachers can use conducting to: Orchestra Conducting Lesson Plan Tips 1. Hook your students with a fun example of conducting. Of course, watching examples of legit conductors is an important aspect of a conducting unit, but watching a non-conductor’s attempts also…
