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Episode #90: End of Year Plans and "Your Future Self Will Thank You"

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Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT Episode #90: Your Future Self Will Thank You In this episode, Carrie and Tanya share our end of the year plans and some things that we will do now so our future selves will thank us later. Highs and Lows "There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling: It's Called Languishing" by Adam Grant Main Theme End of the year plans: -Individual work and project-based learning works well for older students this time of year (ie keyboards, Soundtrap, ukulele). -Get outside! Play outside games and try dictation activities with sidewalk chalk. -Have a singing game choice day on the last day. Check out wheelofnames.com as a fun tool for choosing games to play. Tasks to do now so your future self will thank you: -Create a master document where you can keep track of what concept/skills you taught this year in each grade level as well as a song list for each grade to help with planning next summer/fall. -Give students a survey to see what their favo