Visible Thinking Purpose and Goals Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them Who is it for? Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in K - 12 schools who want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and schools. Key Features and Practices At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. License
Music Lesson Plans and Activities The Teacher's Corner provides music lessons around colors, literature, and more. Find resources to help your students hit the right note. Your creativity and ideas can help other teachers. Submit your music lesson plan or activity today. Don't forget to include additional resources, documents or a photo. This indicates resources located on The Teacher's Corner. Wiggly Self Portraits Grades K-6th Grades: K-6thObjectives: Develop social interaction by working with others and development of creative process by designing outfit. Color Songs Grades K-1 Set the colors to music. Integrating Music & Literature Grades K-1 Lessons dealing with I Went Walking, Rain and the Five Little Ducks. Opening Song Grades Primary Summary: A fun opening song based on a Jack Prelutsky poem. We've even made up some gestures to go along with the lyrics. Patriotic Songs Grades Any - Great for ESL Students Summary: A great way to improve students' singing skills and patriotism. What is Jazz?
Khan Academy Home | ACARA Lesson Plans | National Association for Music Education Looking for the right lesson plans for your music class? NAfME members can use the My Music Class® library to find teaching ideas and resources. For almost 20 years, NAfME has been building a database of lesson plans. (You can search the archive here.) With the new 2014 Music Standards, we’re relaunching and expanding that database. Members with great ideas for Standards-Based teaching can log on to My Music Class® to share their ideas with colleagues around the nation. With the My Music Class® tool, you can sort by subjects like chorus, orchestra, or mariachi and find your age group and topic.
The 2 Sisters 15 Resources for Elementary Music Teachers | The Digital Music Educator The web is an excellent resource for music teachers who need free education materials for the elementary classroom. There are a number of sites that offers articles about music education and teaching strategies, lesson plans, classroom tools, children’s songs, fingerplays, and other helpful materials. Here are 15 sites to explore throughout the school year. MusTech.net – Created by Dr. The Lesson Plans Page – HotChalk’s Lesson Plans Page provides hundreds of detailed lesson plans for music teachers. Teachers.net – More than 100 music-related lesson plans are available for elementary school students at Teachers.net. We the Teachers – This social networking site was not created specifically for music teachers, but it is still a good resource for lesson plans and other classroom tools. NNCC Fingerplays Plus – The NNCC (National Network for Child Care) offers a large selection of fingerplays and rhymes for elementary school children. Guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer.
Youtube 4 Teachers VIDEO IS THE NEW PEN! (…and it’s mightier too!) The thought makes many people think the world has ended but for 21st Century kids, videoing their thoughts and creations and experiences and then publishing it to the world is as easy as picking up a pen. In fact, most are more likely to have a device ready to film, edit, add subtitles and music than a pen or pencil. I like to think we only ever used pens because we didn’t have a video camera in our pocket, sorry if that upsets anyone. MANAGING THE NEW PEN’S SCRIBBLINGS (How to manage all the video) The new issue that everyone in education is how to manage and share all this video content. Recorded by their iPadsRecorded by Student iPads (Teacher Logs-in, uploads, logs-out)Explain Everything (App) whiteboard lessonsVideo tutorials for practical tasksYoutube videos discovered on Youtube itself and added to course “Playlists” This allows the teachers to manage all the videos from one place. Like this: Like Loading...
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