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What’s on your Walls?

Many PYP schools have guidelines about what should be on the walls, but it is worth stopping to reflect once in a while about what you are doing with this valuable teaching space. That’s right: teaching space. I’ve found that

Janine 6. May 20159. August 2015 Thoughts No Comments Read more

An Inquiry Into…the Instruments

Nearly everyone does a unit on the instruments of the orchestra, but there are as many approaches as there are music teachers. I’ve probably approached it in ten different ways in as many years within my own program. In my first

Janine 27. November 20149. August 2015 Assessment, Inquiry, Unit, Whole class activity No Comments Read more

HOTS for the Elements

I took a new approach to introducing the elements of music this time around. Inspired by oh-so-many PYP workshops where we split up the reading and then taught each other, I split up the students into groups so that each

Janine 8. October 20149. August 2015 Assessment, Group activity, Inquiry No Comments Read more

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