Music Teacher Resources for You
Please check out the TM21C collection of podcasts, video presentations, & articles.
There's something for all genres of music teachers.
Resources for Practicing
These music teacher resources explore practicing from various viewpoints including psychology, neuroscience, and education research.
- How to Guide Students' Practicing (podcast)(text)
- Life Skills Meet Love of Music (podcast) (text)
- Learning as Living Network (podcast) (text)
- Bell Curve Phenomenon (youtube video)
- Growth & Rest(youtube video)
- 20 Years from Now: What will Your Music Students be Doing? (youtube video)
Insight into Curriculum
The following resources present various new ways to consider curriculum explorations appropriate for 21st century music teachers.
- Teaching with Student Diversity in Mind: Why Curriculum Models Matter (youtube video)
- Accumulated Repertoire (youtube video)
- Multiple Ownership (youtube video)
- Technique on a Universal Scale (podcast)
- Student Resources (youtube video)
Collaboration with Parents
Collaborating with parents in order to develop successful student musical journeys is a multilayered undertaking. These resources provide insight into this important area.
Resources for Inspiration
Check out the following resources for music teachers that get to the heart of the matter. We facilitate personally and socially meaningful explorations.
- Music Making in Our Lives: The Lifelong Journey (text)
- What Music Means - Individual & Community (text)
- Gratitude in the Shadow of a Global Pandemic (youtube video) (text)
- A Music Teacher's Testament (podcast) (text)
- Play (youtube video)
- Patience (youtube video)
- Gratitude (youtube vid
Two-Way Communication
Music teachers' communication and interactions with their students matter a great deal. These resources examine and promote two-way street communication.
- Reflective Partnership Teaching (youtube video)
- Versatile Music Teacher (podcast)
- Follow Up: Music Teacher Must-Have (text)
Music Teaching Philosophy
21st century resources that look at the philosophy of music teaching.
- A Matter of Chemistry (podcast)
- Philosophy of Music Teaching (podcast)
- Seeds, Success, & Scaffolding (youtube video)
- Situations & Questions (youtube video)
- Mission Statement (youtube video)
- How Do We Evolve as Music Teachers (youtube video)
Times have Changed
These article resources provide background for the development of Teach Music 21C. Each music teacher article is only a few pages.
