Elementary music teacher

First year elementary music teachers face a lot of difficulties-- this is how to get ready for your first year!

Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.

Back to school means it's time to set up your elementary music classroom-- but what do you do? Make it simple with these tips!

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Five fun and action-filled circle games to practice rhythm, pitch, and more with your elementary music students.

For this Teacher Tuesday I'm showing you my music stand that I keep at the front of the room when I'm teaching. It is my command center during the day- I really only touch my desk before and after school. Maybe during lunch if I'm lucky. I try to keep it uncluttered and sorted so I can grab what I need without missing a beat during class. On the stand itself I have three things that are always there: a magnetic clock/stopwatch/timer, my class schedule, and a clipboard with all my seating…

DIY Light Up Staff Board, treble clef display. Bright and fun way to learn treble clef lines and spaces names. Music teacher hack.

I love when we have an Olympic year in music class. This is the second one we've celebrated since I began teaching, and we went all out! I started off by selecting 8 countries and then dividing each of my classes into 4 teams (I have 4 risers, so each riser was a team). Students in grades 4-6 participated, so there ended up being one grade level each on every team. Each day, students competed in a different Olympic event. The events we competed in were the ski jump, speed skating, curling…