Music Teacher Coffee Talk

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT #156: End of the Year Plans Main Theme: End of the Year Plans Tanya and Carrie discuss their end of the year plans including what content we are still going to teach and some of the extra fun things we do this time of year to keep kids engaged. Past Music Teacher Coffee Talk episodes for the end of the year: #111: Wrap it Up! #112: 3-2-1, The Final Countdown! #90: Your Future Self Will Thank You #39: End of the Year Gems #13: Outside Songs and Games Other things we mention in this episode: Example of Carrie's review planning document (this is 2nd grade) Teaching Music Tomorrow podcast with Anne Mileski and Victoria Boler Musication Day-O (Banana Boat Song) Blob Opera Incredibox BeepBox Groove Pizza Gimkit Blooket Know Better, Do Better Carrie talked about the importance of gender neutral concert dress codes. Here is a great article with ideas and things to consider. Work Smarter, Not Harder Tanya recommends creating a document now that goes into s...

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT #155: Realizing Diversity Check-In In this epsiode, Carrie and Tanya check in on how they have implemented things they learned during the 2023 Summer Book Club while reading Realizing Diversity: An Equity Framework for Music Education  by Karen Howard. Main Theme: Realizing Diversity Check-In After reading Realizing Diversity , we were inspired to create a "Music Culture Project," similar to the project outlined in Appendix D in the book. With the help of a few other teachers in our district, we created a 5-lesson unit that traces the "Son Clave" rhythm from Ghana to the Americas and how it appears in music of many cultures, genres, and time periods. Here are some resources we mention as we discuss the unit we created and taught to our 5th graders: 2023 Summer Book Club Episodes: Episode #135:  Part 1 Episode #136:  Part 2 Episode #137:  Part 3 Episode #138:  Part 4 Let Your Voice Be Heard: Songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe by...