Leadership
TITLE: 5 Major Assets of Teaching Instrumental Music
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: December 17, 2021
Curated from the Yamaha Educator Suite – by Steve Graves – When we jump into the school year, we’re often forced to just start planning curriculum and deal with the course of events that gets in the way. We don’t have time to take a good look at what we need or already have to work with. But it’s essential…
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TITLE: If We Want to Maximize Learning, is It Better to Focus on Our Failures or Our Successes?
SOURCE: Ray Benton
FORMAT: Article Podcast
DATE: November 15, 2021
Curated from the Bulletproof Musician – by Noa Kageyama, Ph.D. Is it better to focus on our failures or our successes? Whether it’s an audition, a math final, or your herculean efforts to prepare a non-dried-out Thanksgiving turkey for once, it’s never fun to fail, make mistakes, or fall short of your goals. Which probably explains why there are so many…
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TITLE: 5 Tools to Get Your Motivation Mojo Back
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: November 10, 2021
Curated from the Yamaha Educator Suite – by Kathryn Drury Wagner – Music educators, here are 5 tools to get your motivation mojo back. Experts tell us there are strategies to get your motor running again, to feel more energized, and yes, motivated. Ah, if only motivation came in a bottle, and you could crack open the cap and chug…
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TITLE: Thoughts from a legendary band director – Everything Band Podcast with Alfred Watkins
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: November 9, 2021
What better way to improve than to dive into the thoughts of a legendary band director. Alfred Watkins was the longtime band director at Lassiter High School in Georgia and one of the finest band directors of his generation. He joins the show to talk about his career and share the wisdom from his 37 years as an instrumental music…
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TITLE: 3 Things I Learned From My Most Gifted Students
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: August 24, 2021
Curated from SmartMusic’s The Music Educator Blog – by Dave Isaacs – Every teacher knows how much we learn from our students. The act of teaching itself makes you view the music differently as you learn to communicate it more directly. Different students’ experiences teach us problem-solving on both a technical and interpersonal level. Teaching very gifted students is a…
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TITLE: 18 LESSONS MARCHING BAND TEACHES OUR KIDS: A PARENT’S PERSPECTIVE
SOURCE: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: August 3, 2021
Curated from AMP, the Association of Music Parents – by Kathleen Heuer – My name is Penny Ray, and I’m a music parent. My husband and I have three teenagers: a sophomore who plays mellophone in her public high school marching band and French horn in the Wind Ensemble at school; an 8th grader who plays trumpet in the local homeschool…
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