Music Education

We all have our strong and weak areas in learning. However, it is amazing to me, just how easy it is to find a way to use music to teach just about anything to anyone! If ever there was a "wonder-way" to teach and reach every student in the way they ...

The essence of improvisation and creativity reigns in this form of story telling. Hopefully, these examples will help to generate your own ideas in how to incorporate these creativity sessions with your students.

The Music Educator has to wear many hats in order to fulfill the needs of multi-faceted special needs programs nowadays. While that is all well and good, sometimes, especially those of us who have been in the profession before these special needs programs were instated, may feel a bit behind the ...

The first musical I reviewed was "Jack and the Beanstalk". The table of contents lists the teachers guide pages and the song lists. Each song in the list also gives reference as to whether it is a choral piece or a solo.

The songs supplied in the review kit have wonderful pages ...

As far as lessons go, what works for me, may or may not work for you, but here are some thoughts on how I go about laying out my ideas for the week, month and semester. Hopefully, some of you will find them helpful.

As we are preparing this year's choir, ensemble or perfoming group, I thought it might be helpful to dig into my resources and find something for the director.

I came across an outline for becoming a better director and have decided to use this information as a type of checklist for ...

Parent/Teacher conferences are supposed to be encouraged. However, sometimes, teachers avoid them like they're the plague. I will do practically everything else to resolve an unfortunate situation before I set one up. It's like the absolute last straw with me. I guess some of the reasons some teachers don't pursue Parent/Teacher ...

Finger pointing in this day and age has become common place. While this may make one feel better at the time, it does little to rectify a serious problem. When we assume we know what the problem is rather than take the action to investigate and get the facts, we usually ...

You can turn those blues into music and have a great time doing it. Music is a perfect way to express yourself, your feelings and emotions, into a song or a dance. Let's take a look at some things on the Internet to get those creative juices flowing.

In this time where school violence has become so prevalent, an educator begins to wonder if there is more that can be done to "soothe the savage breast" within us. Fine Arts does that very thing better than any other resource.