Hi I need to develop an enrichment class for kindergarten that connects music and literacy I would like to add classroom instrument playing, movement and speech or singing. Any suggestions are welcome
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I am longing to collaborate and share ideas and learn with fellow Music Educators. Trouble is, the last several years, our district has required that the entire district participates in all the same training. We have not been allowed to participate in training with educators in our subject area. Last year the entire elementary staff, including me a...See MoreI am longing to collaborate and share ideas and learn with fellow Music Educators. Trouble is, the last several years, our district has required that the entire district participates in all the same training. We have not been allowed to participate in training with educators in our subject area. Last year the entire elementary staff, including me and the other Specialists, attended a Math Conference with the classroom teachers. The 2 years before we all attended the same classroom management training - intensive week long training in the summer and/or district wide inservice training throughout the school year. I miss working with other Music teachers. Anyone else in the same situation? I have been a team player and went along with the others, and I can see the value of incorporating Math in Music classes. But please, I need to see and hear what other Music teachers are doing. The administration might let me take time off, but I have to use either personal time off, or the 1 professional day we are given. In addition, I will still need to do all that the rest of the district is doing - updating portfolios, using assessment and monitoring programs that the district is implementing district wide and the Charlotte Danielson model..... Help!
> participates in all the same training. We have not been > allowed to participate in training with educators in our > subject area. Last year the entire elementary staff, > including me and the other Specialists, attended a Math > Conference with the classroom teachers. The 2 years before > we all attended the same classroom management training - > intensive week long training in the summer and/or district > wide inservice training throughout the school year. I miss > working with other Music teachers
I feel your pain. A few years back, I was doing the same thing: sitting in the back during professional learning seminars that were about the Math, Science, Language, curriculum. Classroom management, okay, that would have been good for anybody. Mostly, I sat in the back with my own materials, present in case anyone questioned it, but usually combing through books, scores, etc, that I'd toted down to the PD room.
I found local organizations for Orff and Kodaly, that held Saturday workshops. I felt that if I came away with ONE workable idea, ONE beautiful piece of music/arrangement, or had a reasonable conversation about teaching music with other teachers, it was worth the drive. (One drive was 32 miles one way, the other was 125 miles one way.) Another time, all of our district vocal teachers went to Fullerton for a workshop with Henry Leck. It was on that day, the breakthrough was made.
We had petitioned the district: if we could prove that we had done 7 hours on our own time, attending workshops, seminars, other MUSIC-related professional development (that didn't involve college credits), could we be excused from the January in-service? Or, if that in-service was on the same day as the local CMEA-SBS conference, could we attend that instead of sitting through our site's/district's non-applicable professional learning? With a lot of help from our teacher association, we won this right.
We were still supposed to attend any schoolwide PD held after school or during Compact Days, but with a brief chat with my principal, I no longer had to do that. I usually was with kids, either a choir rehearsal or the all-school musical had a rehearsal. If I was free of either one, tho, I was to attend -- and did. And sat in the back.
Now I'm teaching regular ed. So much of the stuff has changed that I'm glad I didn't have to sit through all that stuff.
I'd like to be able to make my own worksheets. For rhythms and for treble melodies. Does anyone make their own worksheets? What do you use? I hand draw them now and they're definitely usable, but don't look very good.
On 9/10/15, Garland/GA wrote: > People on Teachers Pay Teachers swear by the musisync (not > sure if that is spelled right) font because you don't have > to worry about lining notes up, just type. You'd have to > pay for it though. > > On 9/10/15, 3rd year wrote: >> Just curious: >> >> I'd like to be able to make my own worksheets. For > rhythms >> and for treble melodies. Does anyone make their own >> worksheets? What do you use? I hand draw them now and >> they're definitely usable, but don't look very good.
On 9/12/15, JJ-AZ wrote: > Actually, the MusiSync and MusiQwik fonts are FREE! I use > them all the time for creating worksheets, powerpoint > lessons, etc. Super simple and look great. Since it's a > regular font you install on your computer, you can change the > color or size easily. Do a simple google search for the name > of the font, or just go to fontspace.com and put the name of > the font in the search box. Then you can download them to > your computer for free. > > Hope this helps! > ~JJ~ > > On 9/10/15, Garland/GA wrote: >> People on Teachers Pay Teachers swear by the musisync (not >> sure if that is spelled right) font because you don't have >> to worry about lining notes up, just type. You'd have to >> pay for it though. >> >> On 9/10/15, 3rd year wrote: >>> Just curious: >>> >>> I'd like to be able to make my own worksheets. For >> rhythms >>> and for treble melodies. Does anyone make their own >>> worksheets? What do you use? I hand draw them now and >>> they're definitely usable, but don't look very good.
Hello, my name is Cydney Williams. I am a Music/Music Education Major from University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I am trying to find out a simple meter name for the sample measure on my worksheet. It starts out with sixteenth notes, a sixteenths with the eighth note, and a dotted quarter note with the eighth note.
If your measure has four 16th notes (=1Q or 2E), two 16ths and an 8th (=1Q or 2E) and a dotted quarter note with an 8th note (=2Q or 4E), you could use the 4/4 or 8/8 meters. If I were counting this measure above, it would be: 1 e & a, 2 e &, 3 (4) &
On 9/12/15, Cydney Williams wrote: > Hello, my name is Cydney Williams. I am a Music/Music > Education Major from University of North Carolina at > Pembroke. I am trying to find out a simple meter name for > the sample measure on my worksheet. It starts out with > sixteenth notes, a sixteenths with the eighth note, and a > dotted quarter note with the eighth note.
On 9/13/15, Mary-Lorraine wrote: > Remember that the top of the time signature is the number of > beats in a measure and the bottom is the note that gets a full > beat. 4/4 means 4 quarter note beats per measure, 8/8 means 8 > eighth notes per measure. > > If your measure has four 16th notes (=1Q or 2E), two 16ths and > an 8th (=1Q or 2E) and a dotted quarter note with an 8th note > (=2Q or 4E), you could use the 4/4 or 8/8 meters. If I were > counting this measure above, it would be: 1 e & a, 2 e &, 3 (4) > & > > On 9/12/15, Cydney Williams wrote: >> Hello, my name is Cydney Williams. I am a Music/Music >> Education Major from University of North Carolina at >> Pembroke. I am trying to find out a simple meter name for >> the sample measure on my worksheet. It starts out with >> sixteenth notes, a sixteenths with the eighth note, and a >> dotted quarter note with the eighth note.
This is my 20th year in my district. I am a general music teacher K-5 in a building where I see 550 students per week. I also travel to another building for 1 class of another 26 students.
I already feel very disconnected with the other school...then today...after class began, a teacher and 2 hearing impaired students came in and sat down. I said "Hello" reply was "oh, we are here for music and we are joining this class now".....um, I am thinking....well, I have no idea who you are and certainly didn't hear of a schedule change.
I am so frustrated that I was not told ahead of time about this. I certainly don't mind having the students in the class. (teacher and some one else who looks like an instructional assistant stayed during the class) but how about a little bit of advanced notice.
I received my roster for the class....after asking the teacher for one. Didn't know I had a boy in a wheel chair....would have been nice to know ahead of time to plan
What do you do when it comes to 'staying in the loop'?
I have emailed the principal about having a white board installed on the wall since I teach in the CAFETERIA with no instruments/books/ supplies etc. still haven't heard back from her.
The music teacher in the building teaches at the same time I do....she is terrific. Tries to keep me posted but I know her plate is full too. (gee, they changed the master schedule this year AGAIN for specials)
On 9/01/15, I think your angle is "IEP" legal responsibilities wrote: > Not only should you be informed ahead of time, you should > have been provided with IEP/504 plan information before > having these students show up in your classroom. > > You are legally obligated to know what is in those documents. > > I think this is the angle I would take in talking to > administration about this. > > It matters.
I agree with the IEP/504 plan -- that's a legal thing. You have to work with the teacher/aide to help them modify what you are doing in that classroom, to have it somewhat meaningful for the child. As for the wheelchair, if you teach on risers (as I did), it's always helpful to know so you know where to put them. Or if they are not bound to a wheelchair, if they have any reason why they should not sit on the risers/the chairs/the flip-forms/the whatever-you-teach on, you need to know that. (One year I had to teach in a small room where I had NO chairs and the risers wouldn't fit. I had a couple of non-mainstreamed special ed classes of 7-9 kids who came up with extra chairs so I would have some -- custodian claimed that none existed.)
can you believe this? I have had a kindergarten class a total of 3 times so far this year. It was 'learn to hold/play the hand drum day'.....everyone gets a turn but everyone has to TAKE a turn. ok, so you need to sit quietly and raise your hand to be picked to play. some take longer to get a turn than others. class ends.....2 minutes before I can leave for home, principal comes in and says 'Mary's dad came after school wanting a meeting with you about her crying all the way home saying you yelled at her and didn't allow her to play the drum."
yes, you read that correctly. Principal hands me a paper with dad's name/number and I was told to call him. I tried more than 5 times but got a busy signal each time. so I waited until the next day.....principal comes in during my first class saying that mom came in and left a note with her number to call her exactly when my class ended. ok, then secretary comes down with a print out of ALL the numbers to possibly reach these parents....again interrupting my class. So, I call....the number that mom wrote on paper....NOT THE RIGHT NUMBER. oh, 'she works for me but she doesn't work at this number. really? ok, so she gives me a different number.....call....rings and rings....somebody answers....not mom....waited and waited. mom finally picks up. I explained my procedure and how Mary was kicking her feet all around and shouting so she had to wait for a turn. I said I do not yell at children ( I have back up for that) all I got from her was ok.....I asked mom if there was anything else I could do for her. no response. so I said thank you....still no response so I said good bye.
ok, how do you deal with this stress/parents etc. any hints for me? I am 20 years in and so tired of this stuff.
thanks for listening. It helps to get it off my chest.
You probably know this already, but....document, document, document. Document that you picked certain children to play the drum that were sitting quietly, and she was still shouting me, me, me. Document that you had a message to call the dad, you tried 5 times but no answer, busy signal, etc. Document that you had a message to call the mom, and you got her, and all she said was "ok."
There was a cartoon floating around Facebook that is exactly what we face today. Twenty, 30, 40 years ago, a child had trouble, the parent came in and asked the teacher for help in getting the child's grades to improve and more learning to take place. Now, the teacher is getting parents in her face, to explain grades. No more pressure on the CHILD to make the right choices. ALL the pressure on the teacher, it must be the teacher's fault!
I can relate. I bet we all can. All we can do is sympathize with you.