Thirty years ago, if teachers had COLORED chalk for their chalkboard, it was considered “high tech.” Today teachers have still cameras, voice recorders, flip cameras, iPod Touch devices, card readers, tripods, iPads, and other tech equipment to manage and teach – all at the same time.This can be an “eighteen-ring” circus managing and teaching with
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1 Comment » Many middle school music teachers feel the need to “talk” about music history or “teach” how to read notes. In doing these things, the non-musicians view us as obsolete or irrelevant. The math teacher doesn’t teach the history of math, even the language arts teacher doesn’t teach the history of literature. Then, why do music teachers
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I am concerned about the overemphasis of team, community, and the theory that “everyone does the same thing in class or project.” On the surface is sounds great, we all work together, learn together, and be a part of a “one” society, much like a symphony or musical group. That is a very 20th century
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