TAP 129 – Creating Transitions in the Music Room
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…
TAP 128 – All About Transitions
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.…
TAP 127 – How to Create a Closing Routine
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…
TAP 126 – How to Create an Opening Routine
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.…
TAP 125 – What’s in a (Pedagogy) Name?
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…
TAP 124 – What Grade Level is This Good For?
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…
TAP 123 – How to Teach a Singing Game Part II
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…
TAP 122 – How to Teach a Singing Game Part I
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…
TAP 121 – What to do when a Music Lesson Flops
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…
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…