Teaching Tips
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Please Help Me Find This Book – Band Fundamentals in Easy Steps
I hope you can help me out here. I am looking for a book that is out-of-print and very hard to find. It’s an excellent resource that I want to use next year in my teaching practice. Band Fundamentals in Easy Steps: A Method for Beginning Class or Individual Instruction by Maurice D. Taylor I…
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Reflect Now to Improve Your Teaching Next Year
The school year comes to a close next week and I am already thinking about next year. Why? This is the best time to reflect on our teaching practice. We can look closely at the things that went right, what went wrong, and what we can improve on for the new school year. I had…
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Exams, Grades, and Marks Miss the Point
This spoken word artist captures what is wrong with education today. Suli Breaks really makes some great points in that piece. . I especially like what he has to say about timelines. We have artificial deadlines in school and some students truly need more time to complete a task. I shared a video a few weeks back…
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Musical Futures – Free Teaching Resources
Musical Futures: An Approach to Teaching and Learning I went to a training workshop about the Musical Futures program and was completely blown away. This is a program that can truly engage reluctant learners in the music classroom. We were thrown right into the thick of things for this workshop. We were divided into small…
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Teaching Tip – Guest Posts
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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My Classroom is a Laser Field
“My kids have been getting really stir crazy the past few weeks… between bad weather, a muddy playground, and spring break jitters, they’re all too bored of the classroom. So I had to get creative.My TA and I took red streamer paper and made the room into a laser field.” How cool is that? “The…
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Teaching Tip – Drama
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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Middle Schools Should . . .
What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know by Trudy Knowles and Dave F. Brown This book advocates for a change in the structure of learning in our schools. It’s time for us to have a serious discussion about this. The current way of learning in schools isn’t conductive to the modern world. It’s old-and-outdated and…
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Teaching Tip – Math
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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Lessons We Can All Learn From Skateboarding (and how to apply it to school)
I love skateboarding and I am passionate about teaching. As such, I found this video quite captivating. I really agree with what Dr. Tae has to say, especially . . . FAILURE IS NORMAL “In skateboarding, failure is normal. Failure is expected. . . It took me 58 tries to get that trick . .…