Ukulele Lesson Plans: What to Teach, When to Teach It, and How to Make It Work Here's a scenario that plays out in schools all over the world. A teacher gets access to a class set of ukuleles — maybe they've just been purchased, maybe they've been sitting in a cupboard for years.
Most students today have never bought an album in their life. Instead, they press play and music appears out of thin air. It just exists. And that one simple shift in how music is experienced has created a gap in understanding that every music teacher needs to know about. In today's episode, I explore why
What's Changing in the Western Australian Music Curriculum — and What It Means for Your Classroom If you’re a music teacher in Western Australia — whether you’re a specialist or a classroom generalist — you may have heard that the music curriculum is being updated. Perhaps you’ve seen the documents circulating, or received
Does Starting Music Early Really Matter? Here's What the Research Shows. Does it really matter when children start music education? Or does it all even out in the end? It’s a fair question — and one that gets asked more often than you might expect, usually at budget time or timetabling time, when
The Research Behind Primary School Music Education: What the Evidence Actually Says If you spend any time in conversations about music education, you will encounter two recurring claims made with great confidence by people on opposite sides of the debate. The first: music education makes children smarter. It improves reading, boosts mathematical ability,
The Belief that's Costing Most Music Teachers their Weekends (and how the best ones let it go) Most music teachers I know all do this one thing, and most people assume it means the opposite of what it does. I've spent over twenty years working alongside music teachers. I've watched the ones who
Kindergarten Music Activities: Fun Ideas for Early Years Music Classes Have you ever stood in front of a room full of young children and thought — what on earth do I actually do with them in music today? It’s one of the most common questions we hear from teachers. Whether you’re a generalist
Australian Curriculum Music v9: A Complete Guide for Primary Teachers The Australian Curriculum v9 for Music is the national framework that defines what music education should look like in primary schools from Foundation Year through to Year 6. For classroom teachers — whether you’re a specialist music educator or a generalist primary teacher
Boomwhacker Lesson Plans: Everything You Need for K–6 So you’ve got a set of boomwhackers. Your students have seen those colourful tubes in the classroom on their way in, and by the time they’re seated they are barely containing their excitement. The colourful tubes are out, the energy is high — and then
What Is Bucket Drumming? The Complete Classroom Guide for Teachers Picture this: thirty students, thirty buckets, thirty pairs of sticks — and every single one of them completely locked in, playing together, and you can see that they're enjoying themselves, without being silly. No one is off-task. No one is checking the clock.
