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Energize your music class with these Kahoots!

I know I’m really behind the times on this, but I discovered Kahoot! this year, and my music classes can’t get enough of it! After I use one to review a lesson, they always ask for more. If I say

Janine 2. May 202214. July 2022 Assessment, Technology No Comments Read more

Easy assessment of music concepts—even for a sub!

The chaos of pandemic-year teaching sure compelled me to streamline my assessments! When working with early childhood classes, a lot of the learning is focused around contrasts in four main concepts: duration (long and short), tempo (fast and slow), dynamics

Janine 30. July 202114. July 2022 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Easy Classroom Hack for Recording

With this brilliant hack, the students aren’t self-conscious, and their individual voices are captured on the computer, louder than the other voices in the room.

Janine 14. November 20191. January 2020 Assessment, Teacher Tips, Technology No Comments Read more

Assessment for/as/of Learning

Assessment is a big part of teaching. Without assessment, we don’t know what to teach (at least, we shouldn’t). We must constantly monitor and adjust our teaching to keep learning on track. Formative assessment and teaching are directly linked; neither

Janine 2. July 20151. December 2016 Assessment No Comments Read more

Inquiry: Musical Cycles

Following a previous post, someone asked about our inquiry into cycles. The main inquiry point is that the layering and varying of simple musical patterns can create a complex sound, and that this cycling technique is used in several musical

Janine 15. May 20155. July 2015 Inquiry, Unit No Comments Read more

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