AMusEd

Four music teachers discuss current issues in music education; offer resources, tips, and tricks; and catalogue their growth and missteps made as young teachers. Originally started with all in their first five years of teaching, see how they have grown now in their eighth season.

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276 episodes
Updated Aug 25, 2023

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Dec 17, 2015 · 1 hr 6 min
Discussing Differences
We discuss approaching if differences in opinion regarding pedagogy in a professional setting.
Dec 11, 2015 · 1 hr 11 min
What? Me Teach Guitar? ....Sure? with George Pascoe
Our friend George dropped by to talk about building his program and what it was like to have a performance degree in Saxophone and step into an 80% Guitar job.
Dec 3, 2015 · 1 hr 3 min
Core Literature and Rotation
This we we discuss in identifying core literature to our profession, its musical and pedagogical value and how to implement it into our curriculum.
Nov 26, 2015 · 1 hr 5 min
Depth of Knowledge
This we we talk about DOK and questioning strategies to develop better assessments.
Nov 20, 2015 · 56 min
D.E.V.O.L.S.O.N.
It's that time of year: everybody is sick and tired of being sick and tired. We discuss the Dark Evil Vortex of Late September, October and November.
Nov 12, 2015 · 49 min
Halloween
Olin was out of town and we ended up recording on the evening of Halloween, so that dominated our conversation
Nov 5, 2015 · 1 hr 5 min
Music and Human Learning with Julie Stephens
We bring on our friend Julie to talk about Growth vs. Fixed mindsets and teaching music.
Oct 29, 2015 · 1 hr 5 min
Curriculum Design - Pt. 2
We spiral back to our conversation about teaching music beyond the score and what else we can do to teach comprehensive musicianship.
Oct 20, 2015 · 1 hr 1 min
Instruments and Stuff
Sus is gone this week so we get to nerd out about band!
Oct 16, 2015 · 1 hr 2 min
Curriculum Design Pt. 1
We open the discussion on designing curriculum and units of study beyond the score. Also, Sus talks about how big her room is...
Oct 6, 2015 · 1 hr 8 min
Music Supervisors
We discuss the benefits of a music supervisor in the district, what they can do and why they are important.
Sep 29, 2015 · 1 hr 12 min
Co-Curricular Conflicts and Grading Outside the School Day
John hijacks the conversation to discuss the concerns he has regarding co-curricular conflicts and performances, and finding solutions.
Sep 22, 2015 · 1 hr 11 min
Back to School Night
We discuss our communications with parents and our differingresponsibilities for our Back to School Nights.
Sep 15, 2015 · 59 min
New Year, New Challenges
We discuss new program items we're taking on this year and how that affects our teaching.
Sep 8, 2015 · 57 min
Getting Back into the Swing of Things
We talk about our first days back, how they're different from years past and what we're focused on this year right out of the gate.
Sep 1, 2015 · 1 hr 14 min
Summer Professional Development Opportunities with Anthony Dahl
For our first episode back after summer (not all of us were teaching yet), we brought in a friend wo's been teaching a bit longer, but has recently completed a masters degree over summers and is still taking opportunities regularly every summer to grow.
Jun 9, 2015 · 57 min
Year End Wrap-up
We're taking a break for the summer and will be back at the end of July/beginning of August. We discuss our years in review and our goal for next year: to try to build more of a community and interaction with people who listen to the podcast.
Jun 3, 2015 · 1 hr 5 min
Trip Planning and Administration with Jeff Kumagai
We hinvited our friend Jeff on to talk about putting together a band/choir trip and the lessons we've all learned from that process.
May 26, 2015 · 1 hr 7 min
Preparing for Next Year
As the year winds down we focus on what we need to do now to ensure success next year.
May 20, 2015 · 1 hr 16 min
End of Semester Potpourri (2)
Veronica was out of town so we decided to have some fun...