This video will give you ideas for what to say to classroom teachers when they ask you, "how do I integrate music into my classroom?"

It will help you with integration ideas for language arts, math, science, and social studies. Look at the music integration PDF for even more ideas.

This training with Anne Mileski of anacrusic.com is about how to connect with your students. As music teachers, it's harder to form a relationship with our students when we don't see them as often as the regular classroom teachers. But, there are definitely ways you can connect with your kiddos...

In this training, we'll discuss ways to teach songs from other cultures or countries with lower and upper elementary grades.

Key take aways from this training include:
1. “Listen to an unfamiliar song and become familiar with it and practice it before you try to teach it. But, remember to ...

In this video, you'll learn tips for including holiday music throughout the school year, how to find activities and songs, and why it's ok to just have fun with your students sometimes.

The key takeaways from this training include:
1. "There's so much music out there. Don't get so hung up ...

What holidays to include throughout the school year and how to find a balance between teaching sacred and secular music.

The key takeaways from this training include:
1. ”If you’re doing a holiday program with certain grades, you’ll do just one song with the other grades”
2. ”Vary up your pr...

In this training, you'll learn ways you can bring creativity into your music classroom, through using improvising and composing, even if it's new to you. Steve Giddings from stevesmusicroom.com does an excellent job explaining how to really implement these ideas into an elementary music classro...

In this training, we'll be discussing ways you can include students who can't participate with holiday music.

The key takeaways from this training include:
1. "Before you do anything else, talk to that child's classroom teacher and parent to find out which activities they can participate in....

In this training, we'll discuss how to use instruments, what instruments you need, and what to do if you don't have instruments.

The key takeaways from this training include:
1. “Small groups can play rhythms, they can create rhythms together as a class, or they can improvise."
2. "Center...

In this training, we'll go over ways to communicate with parents as the elementary music teacher. This is tricky, because you see every child in the school. So, you'll communicate with the parents differently than the regular classroom teachers.

Key takeaways from this training include:
1. ...

In this training, I'll share tips for teaching singing in elementary music. This is something that definitely didn't come naturally to me when I first started teaching, since I'm an instrumentalist. But, these are the strategies I began implementing that really helped not only me, but my studen...

This training goes over my favorite tips for teaching movement in elementary music. Getting kids up and moving is so important, and honestly in my opinion, is when lots of music learning takes place. If you're not teaching movement yet, most of the time, it just takes us stepping out of our com...

This was originally going to be an interview with Steve Giddings of stevesmusicroom.com about how he teaches songwriting and composing in his music classroom. Due to technology issues, this training is me teaching and going over the interview answers Steve gave.

Check out his website at ste...

In this training, we'll discuss everything you need to do now to have a successful school year next year.

The key takeaways from this training include:
1. “Look at what worked this year and what didn’t work this year and rethink things for next year.”
2. “When you take professional developm...

Classroom management is definitely a huge struggle for elementary music teachers. You just want to teach music, and don't want to have to constantly focus on behavior issues and procedures. But, when good classroom management is in place, your teaching will go a lot smoother and more learning t...

This training will help you with getting started teaching elementary music. To get an even more extensive training, take the Elementary Music Teacher Blueprint course that is included in the academy.