Latest Dalcroze Podcast Episodes
Down: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 27, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLearn a fun xylophone arrangement to use with your students that focuses on a verse/chorus form and movement activity with the song Down performed by Marian Hill. Get the free Google Slides presentation at https://www.jessicagrant.org/shop/p/down-by-marian-hill-xylophone-arrangement and click ...
Look What You Made Me Do: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 20, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe first single from Taylor Swift's Reputation album is a fantastic way to teach musical form and provide opportunities for students to compose original melodies. Particularly with aaab form! Listen in to hear how I have used this piece with my students to learn melodies on the xylophones and...
Paint It Black: Arrangements Inspired by Pop Music for the Classroom
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 13, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe first arrangement of our series: Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones! I share the inspiration behind this arrangement, steps for teaching the piece to students, ideas for form, and how to expand on the original theme with rhythmic variations. The arrangement is written for xylophones. Ge...
Five Tips for Finding and Creating Pop Song Arrangements to Use in Your Classroom
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 06, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsUsing pop music in your music classroom can be so much fun! Students love learning something they know or have heard before, playing music that they listen to at home, and performing songs for an audience who also knows the music. For the next several episodes I’ll be sharing pop song arrangemen...
Feeling the Sunday Scaries...Again
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNow that we're a few weeks into the new year, you might be feeling the Sunday Scaries…again. Here is how I’ve worked through - and continue to work through - my Sunday Scaries. Lazy Genius Article Headspace Article Follow me on Instagram @howtoteachmusicwithjessica Website: www.jessicagr...
Five Classroom Procedures to Review in the New Year
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 02, 2024 16:37 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsJanuary is a great time for a reset of classroom procedures. Here are five procedures to review that will help re-establish expectations and set a positive start for 2024 in your classroom. Pay close attention to number five - it's likely the most important one that will make a difference. Fol...
Reviewing 2023 and Setting 2024
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 01, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIt's the fifth annual goal review and goal setting episode! And the first episode of season 16. Listen in to hear how my goals went for 2023, gain ideas for how to get your goals, and listen in for what's in the works for 2024. Head to my website at www.jessicagrant.org for more teacher cont...
2023 Holiday Gift Guide
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - December 12, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLooking for gifts for music teacher friends, colleagues, family, or even yourself? Listen in for some gift giving ideas this holiday season! Music Teacher Ideas: F-Flat Books Gift Card Musically Minted Chad Lawson Piano Sheet Music Jessica Grant Shop - use code DECEMBER25 for 25% thro...
Centers in the Music Room with Becca Davis
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - November 21, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIf you’re wanting to incorporate centers into your music room, Becca Davis is the perfect person to talk to! She’s here to share how she prepares students for centers, the four expectations she has for students during centers, some great ideas for setting up centers, and she shares a few favori...
SEL in the Music Classroom with Alessandra Santaguida
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - November 14, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSocial-Emotional Learning, or SEL, is a topic that has been discussed in educator circles more frequently in the past several years. So what exactly is it? How can we teach SEL skills through music learning and musical listening? And what are some lesson ideas that we can incorporate into our...
Peer Leadership in the Music Classroom
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - November 07, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWhen I first started teaching middle school general music, I had no idea about how to incorporate peer leadership into my music classroom. I was comfortable with group work, centers, and whole group teaching, but didn’t know quite how to teach students how to teach each other. A huge thanks to...
Dark Nights and Mysterious Tunes: Songs that Embrace the Spirit of Halloween
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - October 31, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe songs I’ll be sharing today are perfect to use with your upper elementary classes or choir, especially if you’re working on helping students learn how to sing in 2-parts. The pieces be great for a fall concert, to sing in class around Halloween or to use within a specific program related to...
Sour Notes to Sweet Success: Strategies for What To Do When A Class Doesn't Go The Way You Planned
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - October 24, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWe’ve all been there. You plan the lesson. You prep the materials. On paper everything looks great. Class arrives and you’re ready to go, but it doesn’t go the way you planned. The question isn’t what to do if classes like this happen, but what to do when they do happen! Because at some po...
Nurturing Musical Growth: Identifying and Supporting Struggling Musicians
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - October 17, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLast week in episode 276, I talked about how we can identify and support students who demonstrate exceptional musicianship and need a push beyond the standard Today we’re looking at how to identify and support students who are struggling in areas of musical concepts or performance of musical ski...
Nurturing Musical Growth: Identifying and Supporting Excellent Musicians
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - October 10, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHow do you support students who are excelling in your music classroom? How can you provide opportunities for leadership, skill development, and musical opportunities outside the classroom? You'll hear five ideas for nurturing the musical growth of students who love music and excel as musicians...
The Midlife Perspective: How Age and Experience Enhance Teaching Part II
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - October 03, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOne of the things I’m continuing to learn is that I’m getting older - I’m in my mid 40’s. 45 to be exact. And that means I’m in midlife. Who knew?! I’ve been spending time learning about midlife and how little there really is that is shared with us through resources or conversations. If you...
The Midlife Perspective: How Age and Experience Enhance Teaching Part I
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - September 26, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOne of the things I’m continuing to learn is that I’m getting older - I’m in my mid 40’s. 45 to be exact. And that means I’m in midlife. Who knew?! I’ve been spending time learning about midlife and how little there really is that is shared with us through resources or conversations. If you...
Celebrate Fall with Vivaldi’s Autumn: 1st Movement
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - September 19, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe first day of fall is in just a few days on September 23 and what a more perfect lesson activity to use in your classroom than Vivaldi’s Autumn from The Four Seasons. In today’s episode, you’ll hear about five ways that you can use the first movement of Vivaldi’s Autumn for a variety of stud...
Iconic Composers with Emi Ferguson
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - September 12, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAs educators, we love sharing musicians, artists, and composers with our students. Listening to their music inspires us to create, move, and engage in music making and composing ourselves. Today I’m talking with Emi Ferguson about the book Iconic Composers that she wrote with Nicolas Csicsko. ...
Transitioning, Building, Thriving: Note to Self with Adrian Gordon
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - September 05, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWhether you find yourself in a new situation or at the same school in a new school year, my conversation with Adrian Gordon will give you some great ideas for how to transition, build, and thrive. Adrian shares thoughts from his book “Note to Self: A Music Director's Guide to Transitioning to a...
F-Flat Learn Platform with Jessica Peresta
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - August 29, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsI often see people post questions in Facebook groups and music teacher chats that ask: Where can I go for professional development? What are sessions I can do on my own time virtually? How can I access quality content that can be applied to my classroom? So glad you asked! Jessica Pe...
Preparing for Success: Clint Hardy's Back-to-School Strategies
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - August 22, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsClint Hardy, Middle School Choral Director in Keller, TX, is here to share several great ideas for teaching expectations and sharing information, activities to help you learn about your students, helping students get to know each other, and teaching us a fun music game involving rhythms. These...
What I Wish I'd Known My First Year of Teaching
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - August 15, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAs we head into the school year, I thought I’d share some of the things I wish I’d known when I was starting my first year as a music teacher. These are ideas that many of us may need, even if it’s not our first year. Want some help getting started in your first year? Pick up a copy of 'The...
Illustrated Children's Book Release: William's Song
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - August 08, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIt's Book Release Week! I can't wait to share a project that's been years in the making. My illustrated children's book called William's Song is being released on August 11, 2023 with F-Flat Books. Follow Anna Betts, the illustrator, on Instagram at @anna_betts_art. Her work is gorgeous! In t...
All Things Planners with Danny McKay
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - August 01, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIt's Back-to-School and I'm helping you get ideas for teacher planners, life planners, digital resources, and planner accessories with guest Danny McKay! Danny McKay is an elementary music teacher who has found joy and organizational tools that help him plan. He's here today to talk about why ...
Let's Talk ChatGPT
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - July 25, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThere's been a lot of discussion, articles, and information coming out about an AI chatbot called ChatGPT. What is it? How does it work? How can we use it? I'm sharing what I've learned about it and how I've used prompts to brainstorm ideas and gather information. Website: www.jessicagrant...
Implementing What You've Learned in Levels Courses
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - July 18, 2023 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIf you’ve had the opportunity to take a Summer Levels Course, you are truly fortunate to have learned from some of the most amazing educators. You come away with a wealth of ideas and experiences. You want to capture everything you’ve learned, take it to your students in the fall and immediate...
Halfway Point Goals Review for 2023
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - July 11, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWant to set goals and go after them? Check out the Get Your Goals Course on my website at www.jessicagrant.org. For $15, you get video tutorials and access to both Google Sheets templates and printable workbooks. You’ll learn how to brainstorm, select goals, make action plans, and go after th...
The Summer Blueprint: Grade Level Planning (Part III)
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - July 04, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis is the third and final podcast episode in the Summer Blueprint series about lesson planning. While you could do these ideas any time of the year, summer is a great time to put together curriculum ideas shared in episode 260, long range plans shared in episode 261, and short range plans in ...
The Summer Blueprint: Long Range Lesson Planning (Part II)
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - June 27, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLast week I shared ideas for working on parts of your curriculum in the summer. Today I’ll be sharing how you can focus your attention on a specific grade level of your choosing and plan a blueprint for long range lesson plans. I’ll provide five ideas for both year-long plans and monthly plans...
Related Dalcroze Topics