Tag: teaching materials

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What I Wish I Had as a First Year Teacher

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Getting your first teaching job is so exciting! If you’re anything like me you had 1,001 thoughts running in your head about all the things you needed and you didn’t know where to start.  Pause, take a breath and breathe deeply. If you’ve finished a degree program then there really isn’t a whole lot that… Continue reading What I Wish I Had as a First Year Teacher

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Music Snowball Fights

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A classroom snowball fight is a novel experience to have with your students before the holiday break. You can practice many skills during a snowball fight to reinforce and review previously learned content. And honestly, it’s just a fun way to spend a few minutes during class. 

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My Students’ Favorite Review Game in Music Class

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Are you giving a test soon? Do you need to briefly check to see if students understand a concept you just taught? Do we just need a break from rehearsals? (I won't tell anyone if you do). Then its a good time to play a review game and make learning fun again! I'm going to… Continue reading My Students’ Favorite Review Game in Music Class

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How I Organize My Teaching Materials

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If you're like me and teach all the things then you definitely have a lot of "inventory" in your classroom. It's taken me well into my third year to figure out how to organize all of my stuff so that I have a more functional classroom, so today I am sharing how I organize all the things so that you hopefully don't take as long as I did to get organized.