Music Teacher Coffee Talk

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT Episode #79: Top 3 Episodes for our 3 Year Anniversary   In this episode, Carrie and Tanya discuss our top 3 episodes as a celebration of our 3 year podcasting anniversary! We discuss what things are still relevant and helpful in these 3 episodes as well as things that we would say or do differently now. Thank you to all of the listeners who have been with us for these 3 years. We appreciate your support! Main Theme: Our top 3 most listened to episode throughout the years #3: Episode 49: Focus on Kindergarten #2: Episode 22: Songs, Games, and Activities for the First Days of School #1: Episode 4: Classroom Management “When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will gr

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT #78: What's Working In this episode, Tanya and Carrie discuss what's been working this school year. We talk about ideas for in person learning, remote synchronous learning, and remote asynchronous learning. All of these ideas are tried and true activities we have tried with our students with success! Main Theme: What's Working in Our Classrooms This Year Use Boomwhackers as arm extenders to play games such as Apple Tree or London Bridge where you catch students in a bridge. When playing an elimination game remotely, have a Google Slide with students names on it, and point to names while screen sharing. Drag the name of the students who is out to a different place on the screen. Another option: use the attendance feature on Class Dojo and point to their monster icons . Hide and Seek type games work will for socially-distant music. These are games where students hide an object in the room, and while one student is looking for the object, th