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 16, 2014 · 1 hr 1 min
Conferences and Professional Development
Olin, Veronica and John are headed to Chicago today for the Midwest Band and Orchestra clinic. On this episode we discss the value of local and national professional organizations and their annual conferences.
Dec 9, 2014 · 1 hr 1 min
Standards Part 1
This is the first installment as we try to work through the new National Core Arts Standards and unpack them. Also on the table is how we incorporate the standards into our teaching and how we can do better.
Dec 3, 2014 · 1 hr 1 min
Personal Goals as a Professional Educator
We address the challenges we're facing and what we're doing to improve as teachers over this year and into next semester. The followup of how exactly we're doing with that will be coming in a blogpost on the website. aMusEdCast.org
Nov 18, 2014 · 1 hr 8 min
Social Justice in the Music Classroom
This week we invited Clyde Quick to join us and he brought with him the desire to talk about who we are teaching rather than what we teach. This is brought about by watching his student teacher in the classroom and the work she is asked to do.
Nov 12, 2014 · 1 hr 6 min
Taking Care of Yourself
Our expected guest called in sick this week, so we turned the topic around to do a self check-in and figure out how we stay healthy and focused as each semester wears on.
Nov 6, 2014 · 1 hr 6 min
Literature Selection
This episode we evaluate our music selection process. This isn't a "You should be playing these pieces" sort of deal. Again, we're not experts, and we each have our own way of choosing music, mostly based on the needs of our program and our sudents.
Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 5 min
Music Education Advocacy
Here it is: Episode 10! We're missing Sus this week but the topic is focused on Music Education Advocacy regarding both the public and students (current and prospective) as well as our beefs we have with the way Music ed advocacy has been done in the past.
Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 2 min
Program Mission and Vision
Updated and audio corrected.
Oct 15, 2014 · 1 hr 7 min
Teacher Induction (BTSA)
Basically this is an "It Gets Better" for teachers in the middle of BTSA or other induction programs. The discussion leads to assessment and NCLB (this year is the year every student is to be proficient, according to the language of the law).
Oct 7, 2014 · 1 hr 5 min
Choral Questions / Vocal Health
This week we take a break from being band nerds. Susanna leads a discussion on vocal health and choral techniques.
Sep 30, 2014 · 59 min
Percussion Questions
We bring on another guest, Tom Slabaugh the director at Davis High School to speak as a percussionist and band director and answer our percussion questions.
Sep 23, 2014 · 1 hr 13 min
Program Administration
We touch on a few topics that could easily take an entire episode for themselves; focused more on the parts of our job that happen outside of the classroom. Olin talks about what it was like to host 10 high school marching bands and the work it took to pull of his Band Day. Sus shares horror stories regarding travel and busses.
Sep 12, 2014 · 1 hr 6 min
Warm-ups and Method Books
This week we go over the some of the warm-up and technical exercsises we use in our ensembles as well as review some of the literature available as method books for beginning, intermediate and advanced instrumental ensembles. The audio quality is poor this week, but the content quality is top notch!
Sep 5, 2014 · 1 hr 15 min
Athletic Bands
We invite a guest, Travis Maslen the director at Christian Brothers High School, who has tons of questions (for Olin) about Marching Bands.
Aug 29, 2014 · 1 hr 13 min
Classroom Management
We discuss the differences in experience between student teaching and our first weeks in our own classrooms, as well as discovering what motivates our students and a few tips and tricks we've pick up along the way.
Aug 15, 2014 · 1 hr 2 min
aMusEd Podcast Pilot
Four music teachers all in their first 5 years of teaching discuss current issues in Music education, resources, tips and tricks as well as catalogue their growth and misteps made as young teachers. Join us for our first episode where we introduce ourselves and our programs, talk about our first few weeks of teaching each year, what's required to prep for the new year and discuss mistakes we made as first year teachers.