I feel in this uncertain time in public education that classroom teachers be given as many tools as necessary to help grow and nurture students. Elementary music and the arts are being cut and priorities seem to have shifted again.
I write to help give you the tools to integrate music into YOUR classroom. [...]
Today is the first of three VERY inspiring days. I’ve signed up to get as much guidance and teamwork as I can fit. Today my sessions are “The Structure of Big Ideas: Uncovering Meaningful Form, Content and Process in Arts-Integrated Teaching”, “Linking Music Activities to Early Reading” and “Big Idea in a Frame [...]
Today, while waiting for kindergartners to come in for music, a girl at the front of the line asks me “Mr. Krieg, why is there a mouse in the music room?”
If you are an elementary teacher, you can imagine what went through my head. “…these students can come up with more things to blurt out….did [...]
Toward to end of last school year I walked in the cafeteria and noticed about six or seven students lined up against the wall. I also noticed that most of them were great students and decided to torture them. I asked what they did to get sent up against the wall during lunch? It had [...]
