This book gathers articles from state journals that give music teachers ideas on how to include special needs students, discusses why special learners benefit from music education, offers suggestions
Addressing the issue of teacher retention, this practical guide is full of real-life strategies and suggestions for coping with the challenges facing teachers today. An excellent resource for beginnin
This book provides choral music teachers with a variety of techniques that can be applied to conducting, choosing repertoire, program development, recruiting, vocal coaching, and preparing for competi
Contains the K-12 national standards and MENC prekindergarten standards; provides a blueprint for a music curriculum based on the best practices of the past but modified to meet the needs of the futur
This book and CD set is designed to help music teachers at all levels develop standards-based assessments. Covers all nine content standards in the National Standards, and provides specific examples o
Boardman (emerita, music and education, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has edited a collection of 13 essays that respond to the ideas presented in her Dimensions of Musical Thinking of 1989. The
An international group of professional music educators presents model programs and teaching strategies based on a 1998 seminar at Northwestern University that focused on issues of multiculturalism in
Collecting and recontextualizing writings from the last twenty years of John Cayley's research-based practice of electronic literature, Grammalepsy introduces a theory of aesthetic linguistic practice
Presents key ideas and practical suggestions for implementing the music standards through performance. Based on a Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar.
Addressing the important topic of the effects of music and reading integration on students' achievements and attitudes, this book presents twenty lessons for integrating selected music and reading con
A compilation of methods, ideas, and suggestions for creating special places to encourage music making by young children. Developed by early childhood music experts over years of experience and resear
