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The musical classroom : backgrounds, models, and skills for elementary teaching

"With the help of The Musical Classroom, students can develop the understandings and skills they need to teach elementary school music. This market-leading text is a comprehensive resource providing backgrounds for teaching music and learning instruments and music fundamentals. It offers forty-eight model experiences for teaching music (kindergarten through grade five), and a song anthology of over 140 songs.""Special features in the Fifth Edition: a CD of fifty-nine songs and instrumental pieces used in the forty-eight model lessons; National Standards for Music Education listed on the inside back cover of the book; extensive resource list categorized by topics such as advocacy, jazz, movement, Orff-Schulwerk, Web sites, and ten others; updated information on technology and music software, special learners, and elementary music series; and numerous independent, small, and large group projects for college students to create their own lessons, use the National Standards for Music Education, evaluate music software, assess instructional materials, and much, much more."--Jacket.For one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Music for Children, Music in the Elementary School, Music in Childhood, Elementary Classroom Music, Elementary Music Methods. Assuming little or no musical background, this text shows students how music works, and demonstrates how to convey this understanding to others. It helps students develop skills in teaching music while offering them introductory experiences in playing and reading music. The text features lots of song material, information on learning instruments, sample lessons, and an accompanying CD.

The musical classroom : backgrounds, models, and skills for elementary teaching

For one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Music for Children, Music in the Elementary School, Music in Childhood, Elementary Classroom Music, Elementary Music Methods. The Musical Classroom provides everything needed to teach the course is under one cover-music fundamentals, strategies for teaching music in the elementary classroom, over 170 songs, the National Standards for Music Education, and instruction for the guitar, recorder, and piano. Story: The authors wrote this text to provide a text for future elementary classroom teachers who have little or no music background; have not taken a college music fundamentals class; and will most likely only take this one course in music and need to learn backgrounds about elementary music teaching while they develop skills and understanding themselves.

The musical classroom : backgrounds, models, and skills for elementary teaching