Could you expand on the Practice Your Way to a Party? I am looking for a good summer incentive program. Each of the students set their own goal for how much time they wanted to practice each week. Once they reached specific goals, they got to color in circles or triangles on a page at […]
100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher
Perhaps a bit of a pretentious title, but this list of 100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher does look like a nice collection of helpful thoughts and ideas. This list of videos contains a wide variety of content – from serious lectures to short clips from the Late Show. I […]
MTNA Conference Blogging
If any of you, like me, wish you could have been at the MTNA Conference in Atlanta, but couldn’t make it, you will definitely want to take a few minutes to visit Laura Lowe’s blog. She did some blogging at the conference, and has several additional posts up now with brief summaries from some of […]
May Music Education Blog Carnival
The May edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival will be hosted right here on Music Matters Blog. For those unfamiliar with the term, a blog carnival is a collection of posts from around the blogosphere related to a particular theme or subject. The carnival host compiles all submitted posts and presents them in a […]
Free Sacred Piano Duet – In Christ Alone
One of my graduating students asked me if we could play a duet together at her graduation/senior recital. She was especially interested in a duet of In Christ Alone. Well, after searching for such a duet extensively, we finally decided that the only way we were going to come up with something we really liked […]
Monday Mailbag – Practice Incentives
What are some of your incentives after students receive their “diligence dollars” or “treasure chest points.” Do you have something “big” for them to spend them on, or do your students receive smaller prizes? I am trying to dream up something that would get my older students excited as well as the younger ones. It […]