AMusEd

Or should we say "joys." Selena speaks to teaching band orchestra and choir at the middle school level, and how equally challenging and rewarding it is.

Veronica is looking for best practices in a world with so many demands on our kids time.

Recorded 3.17.2019

What values are on display in your audition process? How does it tell the kids what you value and what you are looking for in them. How does it tell them what is important to you?

Recorded 3/10/2019

Anne stops by this week in a crossover episode (we're still building our expanded universe) to talk about a few resources for General Music teachers and some of her experiences developing as a teacher in Texas.

For more resources, check out her podcast, the Anacrusic Podcast, which can be found at our network site Mutedpodcasts.com

The Holy Names folk song inventory she mentioned can be found here

Recorded 3/3/2019

John and Veronica start a discussion about designing or re-designing curriculum over the summer (for units!).

AMusEd is moving to a Wednesday release schedule to better coordinate with our other MuTeD network podcast pals. You can find Everything Band on Mondays, AMusEd on Wednesdays and the Anacrusic Podcast on Thursdays. Source Material will remain on a monthly release for now.

We discuss what we walked away from our state conference with and talk a bit about master's programs and other avenues of professional development.

Recorded 1/13/2019, our first week back from break. We sat down with Brandon to hash out some questions he had about the different ways our schools scheduled classes, as his is going through a change now and he was interested in how other schedules affected ensemble classes.

Recorded 1/13/2019, our first week back from break. We sat down with Brandon to hash out some questions he had about the different ways our schools scheduled classes, as his is going through a change now and he was interested in how other schedules affected ensemble classes.

This is the kickoff episode for our second semester for this season, where we discuss our goals for our teaching in the second semester.

Recorded 1/21/2019

This is the kickoff episode for our second semester for this season, where we discuss our goals for our teaching in the second semester.

Recorded 1/21/2019