TAP 130 – The 4 Hardest Things About Being a Music Teacher
Knowing HOW to teach is almost or as much of a baffling thing as knowing WHAT to teach. Anne Mileski Riddle me this: have you ever had a conversation with…
Knowing HOW to teach is almost or as much of a baffling thing as knowing WHAT to teach. Anne Mileski Riddle me this: have you ever had a conversation with…
The goal of the transition is to keep our students engaged while also connecting one activity to the next in a meaningful way that is hopefully tied to a learning…
The purpose of the transition is to take the pieces of your lesson flow that flesh out your learning objectives and find the connecting thread to tie it all together.…
The most important part of a closing routine is to make your kids feel like successful, independent music makers. Anne Mileski In this episode, we’re going to piggyback off of…
The important piece of making an open routine isn’t having the same steps each time. It’s all about setting the context for your lesson, and actively making music right away.…
Maybe you're just looking for something more. And we have these master pedagogues who are sharing all of these beautiful ways of teaching, that just happen to be inspired by…
The question “what grade level is this good for” is a very different question depending on who you’re talking to, and depending on what their timebound, situational, always changing teaching…
It all depends on what your kids have done before, what they feel confident doing, what makes them feel like independent musicians, and how you can add in that next…
Is the goal really for my students to find partners? No, the goal is to get into formation so that we can all work together as a team to have…
I am a big proponent of treating your classroom 100% like a laboratory. This means that there have been more times than I can count that a lesson has flopped…