Music Teacher Resources

Music teacher resources

 

We have compiled an easy list of resources for music teachers to use in their classrooms. Please feel free to share with others.

 

Materials and Lesson Plans:

Bright: https://michiganvirtual.org/bright/
Podcast regarding current events and challenges that students, parents, and educators face in the future. Interviews with teachers and how they tried new approaches to reach their students virtually, what failed, and what succeeded.

NAfMEwww.nafme.org/my-classroom/lesson-plans

Lesson plans for the NafMe members. You are one, right?

On and Off the Podium: www.onandoffthepodium.com/materials

Posters and recruitment material for beginning Band and Orchestra

TI:ME: ti-me.org/index.php

Technology-focused lesson plans

Teachers Pay Teachers: www.teacherspayteachers.com

Work with other teachers who have proven lesson plans

Be Part of the Music: www.bepartofthemusic.org/

School website builder for recruitment of the music student

Band Directors Talk Shop: banddirectorstalkshop.com/

Anything and everything band related 

State of Nevada Academic Standards for Music: www.musicedconsultants.net/curriculumexamples.html

Well-thought-out standards for any school's music programs.

Organizations:

NAfME: www.nafme.org

Music advocacy group

TI:ME: ti-me.org

Technology in the Classroom for music teachers

ASTA:www.astastrings.org

Network for string educators, students, and performers

The Midwest Clinic: International Band and Orchestra Conference

Holding clinics to better music education

NASMD: National Association for Music Education

Retailers and manufacturers helping school music students make music

SBO: School Band and Orchestra Magazine

The leading publication for school band and orchestra directors and instrumental music

Technology:

TI:ME: ti-me.org

Technology in the Classroom for music teachers

SmartMusic: www.smartmusic.com

A web-based suite of music education tools and home to the largest online, interactive music library

MusicFirst: www.musicfirst.com

Classroom tools for composition and practice

Noteflight: www.noteflight.com

Create, teach, share, sell, and purchase music.

Tonedeafcomics.com   www.tonedeafcomics.com

Posters made for your classroom

musicindustryhowto.com  https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/10-essential-characteristics-of-successful-music-instructors-and-teachers/

Link to David Andrew Wiebe's new e-book - Excerpts on How to Become a Successful Music Teacher

Educators:

Jenny B Petershttps://nafme.org/blog/flexible-fiddling-leads-to-increased-engagement-in-orchestra/

https://nafme.org/blog/why-try-the-ukulele-in-schools/

Link to a blog article published in NAfME about how fiddling increases engagement in the school orchestra and Ukelele in the schools