Ever wonder how to get your school noticed worldwide and become the coolest high school teacher ever overnight? Recently (January 2015) theatre teacher, Scot Pankey and his 200 students did just that - not with some fancy computer school program or high maths or english test scores, but with one single music clip where
Welcome back to Music Teachers' Q and A for 2015 - Where Music teachers connect and share ideas and strategies to improve their teaching career. Today's topic is a common one in schools all around the world - technology! The question comes from Lillian in Melbourne, Australia, and she writes: "I would like to know
Now, I know this video is probably staged, but it’s just good fun and I thought it could be a great one to show your music classes as an incentive to get them to their lessons on time! A couple come up to the gas pump to fill up and find themselves singing karaoke of
A little while ago, this small London Based Salvation Army Brass Band got seen with well over 1 million views on YouTube and recently their story has been picked up by big media. Want to know how they did it? It’s simple……Someone sneezed into a trombone while trying to play it in a performance! As
Most teachers are well aware that multiculturalism is a requirement of many curriculum documents around the world today. Music, because of its very nature is asked to cover this by curriculum writers, because we're one of the subjects that CAN do this - I mean you can’t exactly address multiculturalism in Math or Science, can
What would YOU do in this situation: You've taught music at the same school for several years. You enjoy the job, you have a good relationship with your students, and everything is going well. Then one day at the end of the year the principal calls you into their office and says "I think we
Music educators, researchers and clinicians have suspected links between music and language learning for a long time, but now there’s even more evidence. Researchers based at Liverpool University have just confirmed that musical training can increase blood flow in the left hemisphere of the brain, suggesting that the area of the brain responsible for music
Welcome back to another edition of Music Teachers' Q and A - where Music Teachers all over the world help each other with ideas and resources for music Education. Today's question comes from Liz, and she writes: “I was just wondering if you would know of some amazing role model musicians and performers who my
Its time for another issue of Music Teachers' Q and A. In this episode we cover a very important issue: the importance of music lessons. Today's question came from Doug, from the USA, and he said: “I am a general music teacher who teaches 6,7,8 and high school students. My question is: How can
Most of these Q and A sessions so far have been around topics related to classroom music. However we know that a lot of people on our mailing list aren’t classroom teachers.. they are private studio teachers, teaching instruments like piano, guitar and wind instruments. That is why today's session is a little bit different,