Music Teacher

Avoid last-minute stress and fill your music sub tub with these easy and meaningful activities. The best music sub plans are ready in advance!

First year elementary music teachers face a lot of difficulties-- this is how to get ready for your first year!

Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.

Tips from a former disillusioned music student on how to be a better music teacher. Your students and their parents will thank you!

Are you a new music teacher? Need some help on the first year of teaching? Check out these tips for the new music teacher to help you in your first year!

Like most teachers I am such a fan of dollar stores. I can shop there to organize my classroom, create new workstations and add a little flair to my bulletin boards. I'd like to share with you just a few of my favorite finds! Flyswatters My kids are always a little in awe when they see my collection of flyswatters. (This pictures shows most of my collection.) I sometimes use them as pointers when projecting things on my white board, but most often these are used for Swat the Staff or Swat…

Movement lessons your fourth and fifth grade music students will want to do. These are simple & easy lessons for elementary music class.

Class Openers for Elementary Music. Organized Chaos. Fun ways to establish a routine for the beginning of each elementary general music class as a warm-up and allow student leadership as well.

What you put on your classroom walls should reflect what you teach. Read this article to get suggestions about what to post, how, and why!

Classroom management is a deeply personal subject for each of us. It is the aspect of our teaching that determines whether we leave school with a headache, or a smile. And it is often the thing teachers view as their biggest struggle in the music room. You’ll find a lot of different appro