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

When I first started they gave me a key to a room and a list of students. In the new school two years ago they gave me a key to the room but no list of students. Next time they will probably give me nothing at all. I teach public school so obviously all the state expectations apply. I applied for MusicPlay grant and they gave us a grant that covered 50%. The principal came up with the rest of the money. I bought a projector (the one the school provided me with did not work with my laptop) and projected MusicPlay Power Point presentations and Quick Movies on the wall (two 2nd graders got stuck in my projector screen the year before when they tried to take robber stoppers off the legs of the screen to throw at kids. After un-stucking them I decided that a wall is safer) MusicPlay teacher guide comes with CDs with both performance and accompaniment tracks for every song - I think at least 100 songs for each grade level. I love all the Kodaly and Orff activities. Every lesson includes a game. It is working very well for me! I don't think teachers in public schools should agree to teach on a cart anymore. This is 21 century and given the importance of entertainment, marketing and communication industries, music teachers need to have access to technology and training on how to prepare today's children for 21 century careers, not given a cart and a boom box.          ________________________________ From: Kristin Lukow To: MK8 Mailing List Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 2:35 PMSubject: [MK8] question from a music teacher 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.comhttp://www.youtube.com/kristinlukowhttps://www.facebook.com/lukowmusichttp://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kristin-Lukow|=============================================|Hosted by Plank Road Publishing: http://www.musick8.comList Administrator: list_admin@musick8.comTo send a message to the list: MK8-talk@lists.musick8.comSubscribe/unsubscribe: https://www.musick8.com/html/list.phpList Archives: http://www.musick8.com/listarchive/list_archive.phpUser Options: http://lists.musick8.com/options/mk8-talk/nmatveeva@yahoo.com|=============================================|Hosted by Plank Road Publishing: http://www.musick8.comList Administrator: list_admi