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Why Teach Music?
We are being bombarded by articles in the press, on the internet and everywhere in between, about why music is such a valuable subject to teach our children. There are reasons both musical and non musical for including music as a core subject in our very crowded curriculum. Plato said “I would teach children music, […]
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How to Extend Your Most Musical Students
Something I love about teaching music literacy, musicianship, aural and theory using the Kodály method is how easy it is to create extension ideas and activities suitable for the HUGE range of student abilities within our classes. As any music teacher who has taught the first year of high school will know, our student’s abilities […]
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Teaching Key Signatures by Jeremy Howard
Sound before symbol! Welcome to our very first guest post, kindly written and shared by Jeremy Howard. Jeremy is a Kodály teacher in Kentucky, USA. You can follow Jeremy’s fantastic Kentucky Kodály Classroom blog here.Thanks so much Jeremy! Teaching key signatures can be difficult since there is no associative “sound”. How does one then teach key […]
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Report Comments
For many teachers throughout Australia this time of year means one thing: REPORTS!!!! I can’t reinforce more what Denise Gagne from Music Play says (http://www.musicplay.ca): “Report cards are not anyone’s favorite job, but it’s important to communicate how the students have progressed in music. If we don’t assess, evaluate and report on what we’ve taught, […]