Music Teacher Tip #25 - Score Study
Music Teacher Tip #25 - #ScoreStudy: Where to begin when you score study? a. The easiest way for the teacher to find challenging elements...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20191 min
Music Teacher Tip #24 - The Work Can Wait
Music Teacher Tip #24 - #ItCanWait: Sometimes it’s ok to just take a night to not think about your job. Sometimes the work can wait until...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20192 min
Music Teacher Tip #23 - Your Conducting Gestures
Music Teacher Tip #23 - #ConductingGestures: If you are a conductor, your gesture must not only express the music, but your students must...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20191 min
Music Teacher Tip #22 - Starting Pitch
Music Teacher Tip #22 - #StartingPitch: When rehearsing a song, don’t guess your starting pitch. Take your starting pitch from an...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20193 min
Music Teacher Tip #21 - Integrating Literacy
Music Teacher Tip #21 - #IntegratingLiteracy: If you are a choral or general-music teacher, you can easily integrate literacy on a...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20191 min
Music Teacher Tip #20 - Starting Class Off on the Right Foot
Music Teacher Tip #20 - #StartingClass: 😴 If you have groups that are too sleepy or too low-energy at the start of class, begin with the...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20193 min
Music Teacher Tip #19 - Why Are We Doing It Again?
Music Teacher Tip #19 - #WhyWeNeedtoDoItAgain: If you ask students to play or sing it again, either give a reason why or ask them to tell...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20194 min
Music Teacher Tip #18 - Quieting a Group
Music Teacher Tip #18 - #QuietingaGroup: There are so many ways to TRY to get a group to get quiet when there is a lot of noise in the...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20193 min
Music Teacher Tip #17 - Observations
Music Teacher Tip #17 - #Observations: (Ominously): dun, dun, DUUUUUUN.... Observations are coming. As a supervisor of student teachers,...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20195 min
Music Teacher Tip #16 - Feeling Exhausted?
Music Teacher Tip #16: - #FeelingExhausted Do you already feel exhausted? Music teachers tend to be "on" all day. That means we tend to...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20194 min
Music Teacher Tip #15 - Getting Students to Sing Out
Music Teacher Tip #15 - #GettingStudentstoSingOut: I’m often asked how to get middle schoolers and beginning high schoolers to sing out....
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20192 min
Music Teacher Tip #14 - Key Changes
Music Teacher Tip #14 - #KeyChanges: 💁🏼♀️ This one’s for the choral-music teachers. If you’ve ever worked on a piece that’s having...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20191 min
Music Teacher Tip #13 - Holiday Music
Music Teacher Tip #13 - #HolidayMusic: 😢 Don’t be sad, but... Halloween is approaching. So is Christmas. As tempting as it is, avoid the...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20191 min
Music Teacher Tip #12 - Answer Your E-mail
Music Teacher Tip #12 - #AnswerEmail: ✅ Answer your email. ✅ Respond to voice mail. 📅 Do it within 2 business days if it’s...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20191 min
Music Teacher Tip #11 - First Year Teacher
Music Teacher Tip #11 - #FirstYearTeacher: It gets better! If you are a new teacher, you’re probably alternating between pervasive...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 19, 20194 min
Music Teacher Tip #10 - Louder is NOT better!
Music Teacher Tip #10 - #ToneQuality: 😖 Louder is not better. Say it with me, "Louder is NOT better." Have your students say it back to...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 3, 20196 min
Music Teacher Tips - #9 - Discipline
Music Teacher Tip #9 - #Discipline: (Warning = Long Post) One of my current college students emailed today asking for help with...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 3, 20192 min
Music Teacher Tips - #8 - Writing Effective Objectives
Music Teacher Tip #8 - #WritingObjectives : 👩🏻🎓 Here is an easy way to be sure you have written an outstanding objective statement...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 2, 20192 min
Music Teacher Tips - #7 - Vocal Fatigue
Music Teacher Tip #7 - #VocalFatigue: 🥴 Do you have vocal fatigue? Teaching, by nature, is a lot of talking, but if you're the general...
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Sherry Blevins
Sep 2, 20192 min
Music Teacher Tips - #6 - Pacing
Music Teacher Tip #6 - #Pacing: Do you find yourself running out of time at the end of class or trying to give important end-of-class...
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