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LATE LAST YEAR, the Canton City School District in Ohio received a very special holiday gift for their music program: a $460,000 investment by the district to buy new instruments. [...]

What can practice journals accomplish for string students? Quite a lot, according to Margretta Williams, instrumental music teacher at Apple Grove Elementary School in Fort Washington, Maryland. For practice journals [...]

Most beginning string players are very young, but others begin playing as teenagers. How can instructors help these students to be engaged and enthusiastic? Marisa Green is the director of [...]

Every teacher knows how important it is to instill good habits from the beginning. Angela Harman has given this idea serious thought, and at the NAfME In-Service Conference this November, [...]

THE PS22 CHORUS of Staten Island, New York, is no ordinary school ensemble. This group of 65 fifth-graders have performed at the 2011 Oscars and have appeared on numerous television [...]

Among the many challenges facing the student string player, keeping one's bow straight is particularly difficult. It is a hard skill to teach as well. However, 'props can be particularly [...]

WHAT IS THIS OPERA? It is Brundibar, the final work of Czech composer Hans Krasa before being captured by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camp at Terezin (German: [...]

TEACHERS OF ALL subjects often devise opening routines to welcome their students into the classroom and set the tone for learning. How do these routines help? Are there underlying principles [...]

'I BELIEVE that the single most important skill we can teach as music educators is the ability to listen. We are so busy making noise that we often fail to [...]

'CHILDREN NEED TO MOVE. They love to move. Movement is the key to learning and musical experience and expression.' This philosophy has guided Robert Amchin through over 35 years of [...]

'NOTHING CAN COMPARE to hearing music live,' says NAfME member Kay Edwards, professor and chair of music education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 'Classroom music, recordings, YouTube---all of these [...]

CLASSROOM SINGING may be even more important than most people think. 'We believe the benefits of singing involve all areas of the young child's individual development, as well as strengthen [...]

EVERY CHOIR DIRECTOR wants to foster dedication in their choristers, and each one wants to keep them coming back for more. For directors of mid-level collegiate choirs, these can be [...]

IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE. A class seems to be going smoothly, and then you realize that the students are no longer engaged. How can you remedy or prevent this? Some [...]