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…
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…