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/
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.
NAfME: www.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 Peters: https://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