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Teaching beginner band is not an easy task! Directors, check out this fantastic article about how to select and utilize student assistants. From simple tasks like passing out music, to helping run sectionals, give your best student leaders a job! #beginnerband # beginningband #teachingband Middle School Band, Teaching Middle School, High School, Teaching Band, Piano Teaching, Music Lesson Plans, Music Lessons, Music Classroom, Music Teachers
Using Student Assistants in Beginner Band - Band Directors Talk Shop
Teaching beginner band is not an easy task! Directors, check out this fantastic article about how to select and utilize student assistants. From simple tasks like passing out music, to helping run sectionals, give your best student leaders a job! #beginnerband # beginningband #teachingband
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band directors and teachers - are you looking for a way to maximize your time while at teacher inservice? Well, throw on those gym clothes and pack your water bottles, because we're about to tell you how to get in a GREAT workout while at teacher inservice! Ok, maybe not REALLY... but go ahead and click here for a laugh before you sit through your inservice talks. #banddirecctorstalkshop #teacherinservice Music Jokes, Music Humor, Music Education, Elementary Music, Upper Elementary, Band Fundraising
How to Get in a Great Work-out During Teacher Inservice - Band Directors Talk Shop
Band directors and teachers - are you looking for a way to maximize your time while at teacher inservice? Well, throw on those gym clothes and pack your water bottles, because we're about to tell you how to get in a GREAT workout while at teacher inservice! Ok, maybe not REALLY... but go ahead and click here for a laugh before you sit through your inservice talks. #banddirecctorstalkshop #teacherinservice
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band directors, click here for some simple tips for finding the correct bassoon seat strap position for your beginning band students. If you are a beginning band teacher and are not an experienced double reed player, these ideas will save you a ton of time and stress when you teach your beginning woodwind class. #banddirectorstalkshop #bassoon #Bassoontips #woodwinds #beginningband Music Bulletin Board
Bassoon Seat Strap Position - Band Directors Talk Shop
Band directors, click here for some simple tips for finding the correct bassoon seat strap position for your beginning band students. If you are a beginning band teacher and are not an experienced double reed player, these ideas will save you a ton of time and stress when you teach your beginning woodwind class. #banddirectorstalkshop #bassoon #Bassoontips #woodwinds #beginningband
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Establishing a good practice of daily ensemble drills is an excellent way to further the growth of your ensemble, but we have to be careful and creative with how that's done, particularly at the start of the year. The last thing you want to do as a band director is squelch the joy of being in band with repetitive drills. Whether you're a middle school, junior high, or high school band director, you'll find some great tips here for keeping your ensemble drills interesting. #banddirectorstalkshop Teaching Tips, High School Band, Concerts
Keeping Ensemble Drills Interesting at the Beginning of the Year - Band Directors Talk Shop
Establishing a good practice of daily ensemble drills is an excellent way to further the growth of your ensemble, but we have to be careful and creative with how that's done, particularly at the start of the year. The last thing you want to do as a band director is squelch the joy of being in band with repetitive drills. Whether you're a middle school, junior high, or high school band director, you'll find some great tips here for keeping your ensemble drills interesting. #banddirectorstalkshop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Being significant is how you “Leave a Legacy” and is the definition of true “success.” Habits of a Significant Band Director is a great article for information and inspiration. You can be both successful and significant as a band director. Success stops at retirement, but musical and personal significance lasts for generations and generations to come. This article will inspire young and veteran band directors to teach with more insight and embrace the power of positive leadership. Teaching Ideas, Art Lessons, Band Classroom, Future Classroom, Classroom Ideas
Habits of a Significant Band Director
Being significant is how you “Leave a Legacy” and is the definition of true “success.” Habits of a Significant Band Director is a great article for information and inspiration. You can be both successful and significant as a band director. Success stops at retirement, but musical and personal significance lasts for generations and generations to come. This article will inspire young and veteran band directors to teach with more insight and embrace the power of positive leadership.
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
If you're a band director working with trumpet students, you know that establishing proper trumpet embouchure formation from day one is critical! In this article you'll find some helpful tips (and pictures!) for getting that embouchure set easily with a little help from the instructor. Click here to check out this quick read for middle or junior high beginning band directors, or any private lesson teacher working with beginning trumpet students. #banddirectorstalkshop #beginningband #trumpet Teaching Music, Music Class
Trumpet Embouchure Basics - Band Directors Talk Shop
If you're a band director working with trumpet students, you know that establishing proper trumpet embouchure formation from day one is critical! In this article you'll find some helpful tips (and pictures!) for getting that embouchure set easily with a little help from the instructor. Click here to check out this quick read for middle or junior high beginning band directors, or any private lesson teacher working with beginning trumpet students. #banddirectorstalkshop #beginningband #trumpet
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
"The flute can be an awkward instrument to hold and many students struggle to balance it properly." Since bad habits can start on the first day your students get a hold of their instrument, it's important to be prepared to prevent that as much as possible. This quick read is great for beginning band directors, middle school directors, and private lesson teachers who're working with new flutists! Click here to read about and put these easy tips to use. #banddirectorstalkshop #beginningband #flute Band Teacher, Teacher Stuff, Music
Start Your Beginner Flutes the Right Way - Band Directors Talk Shop
"The flute can be an awkward instrument to hold and many students struggle to balance it properly." Since bad habits can start on the first day your students get a hold of their instrument, it's important to be prepared to prevent that as much as possible. This quick read is great for beginning band directors, middle school directors, and private lesson teachers who're working with new flutists! Click here to read about and put these easy tips to use. #banddirectorstalkshop #beginningband #flute
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Learn how chamber music and small performing ensembles can make a difference in your students’ lives as well as the lives of their audiences. Create a servant’s attitude in your students by implementing the “100 gig challenge.” Encourage students to get out into their communities to perform at nursing homes, hospitals, and community events. Your students will be encouraged and engaged through the process of spreading the joy of music! #banddirectorstalkshop Nursing Student Quotes, Nursing Students, Nursing Schools, Icu Nursing, Music Theory Games, Backgrounds
The 100 Gig Challenge: Extraordinary Engagement through Service Learning - Band Directors Talk Shop
Learn how chamber music and small performing ensembles can make a difference in your students’ lives as well as the lives of their audiences. Create a servant’s attitude in your students by implementing the “100 gig challenge.” Encourage students to get out into their communities to perform at nursing homes, hospitals, and community events. Your students will be encouraged and engaged through the process of spreading the joy of music! #banddirectorstalkshop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
The tambourine seems like a simple instrument, but are you actually teaching the proper technique and respect required from your percussionists to play it well? Often, auxiliary percussion gets pushed to the side and even ignored while we prep for contest, etc. No longer for the tambourine - this article is jam-packed with everything you need to know to teach your percussionists how to play the tambourine well, and techniques that fit your score selections. #banddirectorstalkshop #percussion Percussion Music, Percussion Instruments, Musical Instruments, Reading Comprehension
Tambourine 101 - Band Directors Talk Shop
The tambourine seems like a simple instrument, but are you actually teaching the proper technique and respect required from your percussionists to play it well? Often, auxiliary percussion gets pushed to the side and even ignored while we prep for contest, etc. No longer for the tambourine - this article is jam-packed with everything you need to know to teach your percussionists how to play the tambourine well, and techniques that fit your score selections. #banddirectorstalkshop #percussion
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
The French horn is an awkward instrument for students that are still physically developing. As young hornists grow they will need regular attention. Making time for some routine maintenance to your hornist’s posture is valuable. Learn tips in this article such as right leg placement, angle of the horn and mouthpiece placement. This is a great article for beginning band director and those that teach a beginning brass class. #banddirector #frenchhorn #brassinstruments #beginningband Amigurumi
Posture for the Developing Horn Player - Band Directors Talk Shop
The French horn is an awkward instrument for students that are still physically developing. As young hornists grow they will need regular attention. Making time for some routine maintenance to your hornist’s posture is valuable. Learn tips in this article such as right leg placement, angle of the horn and mouthpiece placement. This is a great article for beginning band director and those that teach a beginning brass class. #banddirector #frenchhorn #brassinstruments #beginningband
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Looking for a new way to challenge your high achieving middle school band students? Select band is a fun, motivational program to implement at your school. Select Band is an honor that beginning band students can earn between January and early March. They pass off every line on the requirement sheet and are officially invited to perform as a Select Band for one song on the spring concert. Read the step-by-step details in this great article by Band Directors Talk Shop! Middle School Music Class, Teaching Time
Motivate your High Achieving Band Students with Select Band
Looking for a new way to challenge your high achieving middle school band students? Select band is a fun, motivational program to implement at your school. Select Band is an honor that beginning band students can earn between January and early March. They pass off every line on the requirement sheet and are officially invited to perform as a Select Band for one song on the spring concert. Read the step-by-step details in this great article by Band Directors Talk Shop!
Band directors, looking for some professional development reading to do over the break? Here are six 'books for band directors' that cover a wide variety of subjects including music, education, psychology, science, poverty and inspiration. All of these have many, many applicable lessons to teaching band. #banddirectorstalkshop Drum Lessons, Music Program Ideas
6 Books for Band Directors to Read - Band Directors Talk Shop
Band directors, looking for some professional development reading to do over the break? Here are six 'books for band directors' that cover a wide variety of subjects including music, education, psychology, science, poverty and inspiration. All of these have many, many applicable lessons to teaching band. #banddirectorstalkshop
Band Directors Talk Shop
Band Directors Talk Shop
A new approach to teaching beginning jazz band! No matter what level of jazz ensemble you are directing, delaying handing out written jazz charts will encourage students to play independently. Great tips such as teaching middle and high school jazz kids how to read changes at the beginning of the year, having drummers move to the vibes and what blues progression to start with. With these jazz band teaching ideas, your jazz band students will be improvising in no time! #banddirectorstalkshop It Band, Jazz Band
You searched for if you build it - Band Directors Talk Shop
A new approach to teaching beginning jazz band! No matter what level of jazz ensemble you are directing, delaying handing out written jazz charts will encourage students to play independently. Great tips such as teaching middle and high school jazz kids how to read changes at the beginning of the year, having drummers move to the vibes and what blues progression to start with. With these jazz band teaching ideas, your jazz band students will be improvising in no time! #banddirectorstalkshop
And finally, Part 3 - final thoughts on band directing from Barbara Lambrecht. With nearly 50 years of experience in the music education world, Barbara Lambrecht has license to give sound advice to other music educators about what makes up good band director. Band, orchestra, choir directors, and all music educators - click here for the third of a 3-part reprint of this valuable, encouraging, and motivating article. #banddirectorstalkshop #banddirector Learn Music, All Music
9 Rules and 4 Final Lessons from Almost a Half-Century of Teaching - Band Directors Talk Shop
And finally, Part 3 - final thoughts on band directing from Barbara Lambrecht. With nearly 50 years of experience in the music education world, Barbara Lambrecht has license to give sound advice to other music educators about what makes up good band director. Band, orchestra, choir directors, and all music educators - click here for the third of a 3-part reprint of this valuable, encouraging, and motivating article. #banddirectorstalkshop #banddirector
With sometimes hundreds of students walking through your classroom doors each day, it's easier to just say, "Go home and practice." It's true, your band students should go home and practice. But, what would happen if we gave our students SPECIFIC instructions for practicing? The pay-off is always worth the energy it takes to set goals for every student. These are practice skills that they will take with them from beginner band through high school. Click here for more! #banddirectorstalkshop Music Sub Plans
Setting Goals and Achieving Objectives - Practice Tips for the Modern Musician - Band Directors Talk
With sometimes hundreds of students walking through your classroom doors each day, it's easier to just say, "Go home and practice." It's true, your band students should go home and practice. But, what would happen if we gave our students SPECIFIC instructions for practicing? The pay-off is always worth the energy it takes to set goals for every student. These are practice skills that they will take with them from beginner band through high school. Click here for more! #banddirectorstalkshop