Teaching Music Tomorrow - with Anne Mileski and Victoria Boler

Vocal Exploration is one of the first musical experiences in Kindergarten. The goal of these activities are to allow students opportunities to use their voices in many different ways, many of which they may or may not have experienced before. Over time, this affords students the experiential vocabulary to draw upon when it comes time to differentiate between labeling different ways of using their voices, including but not limited to singing voice. These activities are used to help students explore those different ways to use their voices, work toward accessing their singing voices, and eventually on to matching pitch.

In this episode of Teaching Music Tomorrow, Anne & Victoria share the activities "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," & "Doña Araña."

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria discuss extractable patterns: what they are, why they are important, and how to use them meaningfully in individual lessons and your curriculum overall. Listen in for ways to think about digestible chunks for your students’ music learning and how to decide which song to use for which extractable pattern.

Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria continue the conversation on transitions by discussing how to move students from one space to another. As you’ll hear, there are many different ways to implement these types of transitions into your music classroom, but they do take practice just like any other musical skill. These transitions are still musical, but serve as transitions from space to space by giving students a job.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria discuss how to successfully move from one activity to another using musical transitions. Musical transitions tend to focus predominantly on one rhythmic or melodic concept, whether or not it is “known” to students. Listen for some ideas for how to implement critical thinking skills for your students in the margins of your lessons, but with intention.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria continue the conversation on how to successful scaffold movement or a game-like activity in the elementary music classroom with movement. Following a discussion about what makes this episode different than the two previous in our movement sequence, we’re sharing a couple of our favorite movement & folk dance inspired activities. Victoria shares Sashay the Donut with implications for using creative movement and creating opportunities for student choice. Anne shares Zemer Atik and how she scaffolds it based on form and duration. See a video of the full Zemer Atik dance here.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria continue the conversation on how to successful scaffold movement or a game-like activity in the elementary music classroom with “play parties.” Anne share “The Old Brass Wagon” and how she uses it for a movement vocabulary builder, adaptable to many different circumstances and grade levels. Victoria shares how to scaffold “Alabama Gal” in a way that allows for students to be successful right off the bat.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria break down how to teach a singing game or activity with your students. We discuss what things to think about when teaching a song for a game, how to scaffold gameplay so that students understand their jobs, and possible extensions for these games and activities for assessment, instruments, and beyond!

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria are talking more about rote song singing. We’re tying up a couple of loose ends from last week’s episode, and sharing two new songs and how we’d teach them by rote to children for the first time. We discuss a “line-by-line” or “my turn, your turn” sequence for the simplest way to teach a song by rote, as well as discuss the element of form with both “Let Us Chase the Squirrel” with Victoria, and “Just From the Kitchen” with Anne. 

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On this episode of Teaching Music Tomorrow, Anne & Victoria start at the very beginning: how do we teach a song by rote? If we are going to have a predominantly singing classroom, how do we effectively sequence singing a new song for our students? Listen in for tips, tricks, and a whole lot of discussion on how to teach a song.

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In the conclusion of today’s three part melodic arranging discussion, Anne & Victoria round out the ideas we’ve explored throughout the past couple of episodes. We open the episode with a discussion about what it really means to arrange, vs. having a melodic arrangement and how student choice and action is a big part of both.

Victoria shares a sequence for introducing partner songs to students in an AB structured passing game, "El Florón." She provides the partner song for the B section, but provides melodic building blocks for students to compose and therefore arrange the partner song for the A section. Anne shares some thoughts on how to expand melodic arrangements both vertically and horizontally by adding layers and asking students to make decisions on form.

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