A Habit To Make, A Habit To Break: Music Teacher Happiness
Hey there music teacher. There’s a lot of negativity out there. I have an unrelenting missing to battle mission to battle teacher negativity and promote teacher happiness. I have teamed up with two of my fellow teacher authors to bring you… A Habit To Make,...
Dear Music Teacher, It’s okay to have a bad day.
Dear Music Teacher, It’s okay to have a bad day. Whether you’re in year 1 or year 30, you will always have bad days. And that is perfectly okay. For instance, this may have happened to you… technology failure during lesson observationangry parent email/phone...
Stop Disappearing Pencils
You’re running a rehearsal and you ask students to write something in. It’s almost inevitable that a hand will slowly raise and the question on the end of that hand will ask for a pencil. This small action eats up precious rehearsal time. Creating a simple pencil pan...
The Music Teacher Emergency Kit You Need in Your Desk ASAP
One of my teacher friends who was a few years older than me gave me an emergency kit for my desk during my first year of teaching and it was a life saver over and over. Here’s what you need to fill up your own kit… Start with a box It could be anything – a pencil box,...
Books that Should be in Your Library for Band Directors
Okay, confession time: I am a HUGE book nerd. When I free time in college, I would spend some of it devouring the relatively small section of music education books. I’ve read some good books and some not so good books. These are my top books for band directors. The...
Exit Tickets in High School Band: Assess in 5 Minutes or Less
Exit tickets are my faaaavorite assessment. They give me important insights into student learning, they satisfy the need for writing and data from my admin, and, most importantly, they don’t take up too much of my time to teach and then later to grade. Setting Up Exit...
