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…
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.…
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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…
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…