Subject: Re: [MK8] question from a music teacher

I was in the same boat when I started where I was the last year and a half. Except, they didn't even give me a list just "meet all the state standards" and zero budget and paraprofessional pay with the "promise" of certified pay when my license came in. Didn't happen and I'm not there anymore as of the end of last month. I would have loved to have had the opportunity to get MusicPlay. The principal didn't even want me to work on a grant. She was very undermining and ended up forced to resign an didn't even come back the last week of school. From everything I have seen and heard, MusicPlay is an awesome asset. Hopefully in my next position I can swing MusicPlay and quaver's. I'd love to work in quavers. My kids loved the free trial stuff I got from a session on quavers at Mississippi mea conference. -Lora ToneyOn Jun 16, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Kristin Lukow wrote:> Hello friends ~> > I received a question from a gal on my Teachers Pay Teacher site that really floored me! I don't know why, because the situations that some of you find yourselves in amaze me. I'm going to include her words in quotes and would welcome your responses that I could share with her. I recommended Denise Gagne's MusicPlay. I was so blessed to be given the entire series and find that it is completely assessable in a situation like hers. > > I'm just amazed that they would have no music program for 20 years and then hand her a list of things she HAD to teach with no materials with which to accomplish this. It almost seems like a music game show along the lines of Iron Chef. Okay! Let's see if you can teach music with no materials, no space and you MUST accomplish these things. It just seems like a joke to me but I know it's entirely real for many of you. > > Here is her quote:> > "I was given a list of things that I had to teach, with no materials to teach them. So I used whatever I could find from the internet, and included the history of composers, used rhythm worksheets, introduced the students to different types of music, music theory, and played percussion instruments. The school has not had a music program for 20 years, so the decisions I make are important to the future of the program. I need a curriculum book, something from K-5 that will have modified lessons for each grade. I don't have a classroom, and go from room to room. Sometimes I have access to a computer and smart board, and sometimes I don't. (It depends on the teacher.) Can you recommend some teaching materials that would be suitable for my situation? Thanks!"> > Any advice would be welcome. Thanks.> > ¸ . • * ¨ * • ♫ Kristin Lukow > http://kristinlukow.blogspot.com> http://www.youtube.com/kristinlukow> https://www.facebook.com/lukowmusic> http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kristin-Lukow> > > > > > |=============================================|> > Hosted by Plank Road Publishing: http://www.musick8.com> List Administrator: list_admin@musick8.com> To send a message to the list: MK8-talk@lists.musick8.com> Subscribe/unsubscribe: https://www.musick8.com/html/list.php> List Archives: http://www.musick8.com/listarchive/list_archive.php> > User Options: http://lists.musick8.com/options/mk8-talk/ltoney83@gmail.com|=============================================|Hosted by Plank Road Publishing: http://www.musick8.comList Administrator: list_adm