TAKE NOTE MUSIC

Question and Answer phrases in musical composition - Maranoa

A short PD video supporting effective teaching practice
Creative solutions for your Primary Music Classroom. The First Nation's Australian song Maranoa offers provides an opportunity for aural analysis, singing and instrumental performance, composition and music literacy. It also offers an opportunity to engage with a First Nation Australian elder in your region.

Prep - 2 Recordings for vocal and instrumental accompaniment

A short PD video supporting effective teaching practice
Creative solutions for your Primary Music Classroom. The Take Note Music Making Teacher book provides sensitive audio tracks for singing or instrumental accompaniment in the classroom or remote learning. Available as online audio or a disk for CD players, the recordings can also be used for use with a virtual xylophone for remote teaching.

Here are creative solutions for your Primary Music Classroom. 
​Remote Learning Strategies along with the Take Note Music Making Teacher book - a fabulous resource to encourage creativity during online teaching.

The use of Formative Assessment is especially effective in remote teaching. Students are encouraged to 'show their learning' which informs the teacher as to what each child understands. In the classroom it allows for all students to be engaged in the learning, but even more so during remote teaching, where it allows for teachers to engage all students without the need for microphones on - fabulous for Prep - Year 2 students. The teacher must then authentically check the answer by using the 'Let's Check' method. See Ep#10 Teaching Tips & Tea for details.

This week's Teaching Tips and Tea episode showcases two of Ruth's favourite movement resources for teaching early childhood, lower primary and elementary students. This may be a useful tip that you could use in your music classroom! Check out the new video here.

How can we use musical cues (short melodies) to aid transitions in the music classroom. Enable easy, quick transitions from formation to formation or from sitting to moving. From follow the leader at the start of the class, find a partner, find your own space in the room ready to move, form a circle or sit on the mat, these instructions can be musical rather than spoken. The teacher hums, sings or plays the short melody and the students become accustomed to knowing exactly where to move. It's remarkable...especially for those days when you lose your voice!

Embedding Carol Dwek's 'Growth Mindset' into the culture of your classroom or ensemble creates fertile ground for the powerful impact of Dylan Wiliam's 'Formative Assessment' strategies. Learn how the 'Which One?' activity and 'Let's Check' strategies invite students to show their learning, share their thinking and set up learning opportunities to assist students with their understanding.

Exploring Pitch in the early years is loads of fun with these really accessible ideas! Learn how to make the most of these Take Note Music resources and engage your students in rich learning tasks where they develop their understanding of pitch.

Once students have an understanding of the beat and have been experiencing it in creative movement and choreographed movement, the use of locked hips in a tick tock motion is a great way of developing the ability to feel the beat while performing the rhythm….from as early as Prep!

Establishing beautifulness in students is at the heart of the understanding of rhythm.
The kinaesthetic experience of beat must come first and can be done initially by tapping body parts and then moving to a tick tock pendulum movement as demonstrated by Ruth in this short video.​