TAP 120 – How I Teach Vs. How I Was Taught
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or good or bad, it's just the way that I thought about creating music when I was a student is completely different than…
TAP 119 – The Music Teacher Burnout is Real
It comes down to having meaningful music making experiences for your kids. So if you are doing that, the best that you can do, it is enough. YOU are enough.…
TAP 118 – Active Embedded Assessment with Victoria Boler
The reason we do active assessment is because our music room is active. Every activity is tied to a larger learning goal. The assessment doesn't happen after the activity, it…
TAP 117 – Start with Music Making
By allowing our students the opportunity to do that sing, say, dance and play PRIOR to including notation, we're allowing them to speak before they read and write. We are…
TAP 116 – A Community Conversation about Intentional Teaching
Here's the truth: teaching music is hard. You have a ton of kids to teach, and not a lot of free time to figure out how. But my entire music…
TAP 115 – My 5 Best Tips for Music Lesson Planning Magic
Teaching is time bound, situational and always changing, but good teaching is good teaching. And having those foundations in place is absolutely essential to stay grounded in good teaching. Anne…
TAP 114 – Technology for Student Engagement with Jennifer Timidaiski
It's turned into really easy assessment for me and I have real data from this game that kids love and will play over and over and over. Jennifer Timidaiski Truth…
TAP 113 – REAL Assessment for the Music Room
Assessment is literally observing, gathering responses from your kids, watching what they are doing, taking notes about their musical interactions, and relating that back to your lesson objective so that…
TAP 112 – Creating Goals for 2021
Whether it's changing your lesson flow, writing new songs for your students to sing and play, or breaking out the barred instruments when they usually take up space in your…
TAP 111 -Not “Next Year,” But Right Now
Focusing on the kids makes every decision easy. "Does this serve children best" is always the filter I run everything through, even now. It's not about making my life easier,…