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Music Teacher Resources for You

In this carefully curated collection of music teacher resources, you'll find podcasts, video presentations, and articles. These resources are specifically put together to meet the needs for all genres of music teachers - online, in-person, group, individual, vocal, instrumental, Suzuki, exam-based, and more. Teach Music 21C resources present a comprehensive view of topics important and relevant to today's music teachers. Please feel welcome to suggest any additional topics you want to see included in TM21C resources. Enjoy!

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 vi deo)

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)

Times have Changed

These article resources provide background for the development of Teach Music 21C. Each music teacher article is only a few pages.

#1: Two Questions (text)
#2: Practicing & Learning (text)
#3: Music In Our Lives (text)
#4: Social Movements (text)
#5: Curriculum Models (text)
#6: Reflective Partnership Teaching (text)

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)

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