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How to create primary music lesson plans
How do you create effective, easy to use primary music lesson plans? What are the steps to creating Primary Music Lesson Plans? What curriculum, learning outcomes, intentions and assessments should be in music lesson plans for primary? How can you create all the primary music lesson plans you need, and still have time
Feel like a fraud? What to do about those thoughts
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I can’t do this” or “I’m not expert enough at this” or “I don’t deserve to be doing this” and then proceeded to melt into a puddle of self-doubt …You’re not alone! Many music teachers question whether they are prepared to do the work they do. Here’s how to
How to teach Grade 1 Music Lessons
Teaching grade 1 music lessons? This article gives an overview of a typical grade 1 music lesson plan. Then it shows you how it can be implemented. Creating a lesson plan to teach grade 1 music lessons Creating a music lesson plan is difficult enough! Getting a lesson to fit curriculum requirements
Pineapple on Pizza?
Here at the Fun Music Company, we really value the interactions with our customers and clients. We’ve just put together a brand new ebook with a collection of nine of what we feel are “work every time” ideas for Music Education. These are tried and tested ideas which we’ve learned from the best in the
music composition lesson plan for grade one
Looking to create a music composition lesson plan for grade one, but don’t know where to start? Well read on ... Teaching composition when young children can barely read or play a note is hard! And most teachers aren’t trained in the area of composition and most teachers aren’t composers! So where do you start
The New Australian Curriculum (version 9) has been released. This is what it means for music teachers in Australia.
After a long delay which was extended due to COVID, The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) have released the final version of the new Australian Curriculum. This represents the first major change in the Australian curriculum for Arts:Music, since the original version was released in 2014. You may be confused to see
What does a music history curriculum for primary school look like today?
Are you teaching music history? This article explores what a music history curriculum for primary school may look like today. If you've ever wondered if you should be teaching music history in primary or elementary music, then you've come to the right place! Music History. Just the mention of those two words beings up
What a curriculum asks us to do in creating a music listening curriculum is not actually that easy in practice!
Looking to create a music listening curriculum? That is something we do here, too! Here at the Fun Music Company we LOVE looking through curriculum documents, created by government departments and education authorities. I am only a little bit “tongue-in-cheek” as I write that! Seriously, we do actually enjoy it! Its a really interesting aspect
What exactly is in the new “Developing Skills” strand in the Australian Curriculum for Music?
Here at the Fun Music Company we’re working hard at the moment to keep in touch with the curriculum requirements in our home country of Australia, as well as around the world. Right now, the Australian National Curriculum is being reviewed, and is currently in its consultation phase. Some states in Australia use the National