Latest Dalcroze Podcast Episodes
The Summer Blueprint: Map Out Your Curriculum (Part I)
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - June 20, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIt's summer and you're soaking up the sun while thinking about putting together an outline for mapping out your curriculum for the coming year. Here are seven ideas for getting started: Scheduling work and play Lists of concepts by grade Lists of song material by concept Create manipulat...
Exclusive Sneak Peek: Chapter 4 from Our New Book Release
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - June 13, 2023 09:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDanielle Larrick and I just released our book “Two Teacher Perspectives on Health and Wellness” with F-Flat Books. You can head over to F-Flat Books to purchase your copy! Share it with a friend. Use it for a book study with teacher friends and colleagues. It’s the perfect summer book to foc...
Teacher Health and Wellness: Insights from the New Book Release
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - June 06, 2023 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDanielle Larrick and I have teamed together to write the perfect summer book for teachers all about teacher health and wellness. Get the inside scoop about what you can expect within the book including: Ten chapters related to health and wellness topics such as imposter syndrome, identity, an...
How to Wind Down for Summer
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - June 02, 2023 09:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsWhen the school year comes to an abrupt end, it takes some time for our minds and bodies to catch up to the fact that we can now rest. Or at least breathe a little bit for sure. Here are five things we can do to wind down for summer. Take a day of rest Get closure Summer meal plan Be ok...
Exhausterwhelmulated
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - May 30, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsYou may have seen the meme/gif going around with this word on it. What a perfect way to describe how many of us feel at the end of the school year! I'm sharing three ideas for what you can do when you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and overstimulated. Instagram: @howtoteachmusicwithjessica ...
Wrapping Up the School Year
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - May 16, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHow do we finish the year well when we're so tired? What should we choose to push forward on and what do we ease up on? Here are six things I'm doing at the end of the year to keep learning continuing in the classroom and reviewing material already learned. Ideas include: Podcasting Lessons ...
Fairy Tale Drumming and Speech Project
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - May 09, 2023 09:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsI’ve often found it challenging to find books that I love to use with my older students so I created this fairy tale project to use possibly familiar stories in a way that allows students to work together to create short speech pieces/raps and put together an entire classroom performance, if you...
Musical Calligram Student Project
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - May 02, 2023 09:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsCalligrams are a word or part of a text where the design and layout of the letters or words create a visual image that relates to the word themselves. They can be created using one phrase, individual words, song lyrics, poems, or specific text. In today's episode, you'll hear four ideas for u...
Things I Learned in the Woods
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - May 01, 2023 01:47 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis past week I spent time backpacking in the Smoky Mountains with my seventh grade students. Here are five lessons I learned in the woods that apply to teaching at the end of the year (or anytime really!) Website: www.jessicagrant.org Instagram: @howtoteachmusicwithjessica
Planning on Purpose with Allison Russo
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - April 18, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAllison Russo is a consultant, writer and educator who has written a fantastic book called “Planning Purpose.” I’ve enjoyed working through the process within the book to find ways to implement my values and the values of my students into the content I’m teaching. I’m excited for you to learn ...
What's Saving My Life Right Now
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - April 17, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSharing ten things that are making a difference in my life right now. Life lessons. Specific content and apps. Things in general. Instagram: @howtoteachmusicwithjessica Website: www.jessicagrant.org
Minecraft Musical Artist House Challenge
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - April 04, 2023 12:12 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis project is a huge hit with my students! Listen in to hear how you can use Minecraft, Flip, and Student Peer Reviews to help students learn about Musical Artists. Purchase materials for the project HERE! You'll hear: *Ideas for using the project with your students *Four levels of imple...
Elemental Movement with Ashley Brown Woodside
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - March 28, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsI loved this chat with Ashley Brown Woodside. Ashley is an incredible musician, dancer and educator who loves to inspire her students through the use of movement and music. More specifically in using elemental concepts in movement to guide their learning and musical experiences. We talk abou...
How to Pace Your Lesson Content
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - March 21, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThere is an art to designing a lesson plan. Learning your personal pacing and the pacing of your students' work takes time and experience. Here are a few ideas to help you figure out how to pace your lessons from start to finish! Follow me on Instagram @howtoteachmusicwithjessica! Website:...
What To Do With The Last Five Minutes
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - March 20, 2023 09:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHave you ever had this happen: Your lesson moves at a faster pace than expected and you have extra time emaining. Or your class time has ended, your students are lined up, but their teacher isn’t there yet and you might be there for a few minutes longer. What do you do? Five minutes may not s...
How to Differentiate Music Instruction with Bryson Tarbet
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - March 07, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis conversation with Bryson Tarbet about differentiation is extremely relevant and insightful. It will get you thinking about how you already differentiate learning in the classroom and things you might want to try. Most of all I hope you come away from our talk being encouraged by what you’...
How to Prepare for Your Musical Theatre Performance
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 28, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn Episode 242 I talked about how to prepare a musical and shared four areas to get you started: selecting a musical, gathering content ideas, holding auditions and getting started with the first rehearsal. Last week in episode 243 I talked about how to structure and organize your rehearsals so...
How to Structure Musical Theatre Rehearsals
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 21, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsGet your Musical Theatre Prep Guide HERE! The guide is a fully editable Google Doc with over 10 pages of content that can help you plan everything from auditions to casting to student groups, rehearsal schedules and more! Today's episode is all about how to structure and organize rehearals fo...
How to Prepare a Musical
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 15, 2023 03:20 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDoing a spring musical? Today’s focus is about how to prepare for the musical. Some of the things you might want to think about before auditions begin and before rehearsals start. All the things to consider as you select your musical, prepare documents for casting and costumes, the audition...
How to Present Music Teacher Workshops and Conference Sessions
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 07, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDo you present at music teacher workshops and conferences? Or is this something you're hoping to do? I'm here to help! I'm sharing four things you should consider when presenting music educator workshops: 1 - Session Titles 2 - Session Content 3 - Pacing 4 - Visuals with Googles Slid...
Rebranding: New Name, Same Music Ed Content
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - February 06, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe Afternoon Ti Podcast is shifting to a new name: How to Teach Music with Jessica Grant. There are several reasons for this rebranding, which I share in today's episode. You'll hear what's staying the same (music ed content) and what's changing (titles of content). Another new change: I ...
How to Tut: Creative Movement with Hands and Arms
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsI'm always looking for new ideas to use for creative movement in the classroom. There was a video that came across my social media feed of a large group performing choreographed hand movements that were sharp and precise. The performers wore all black clothing and sat in a riser formation. Th...
How to Create an Orff Arrangement of a Pop Song
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 24, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday I'm sharing how to create an Orff arrangement of a pop song using barred instruments, ukuleles or recorders. You'll hear: - How to select a song - How to arrange and transpose the piece to work with instruments - Ideas for teaching the piece - Options for adding harmony and percus...
How to Process an Orff Barred Instrument Arrangement
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 17, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday I’ll be sharing how to process an Orff barred instrument piece. Everything from how to read the score to leading students through the learning process. Head over to my website www.jessicagrant.org for teacher content - blog posts, shop resources, and more. Join my free mailing list f...
How to Introduce a Song
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 10, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsDo you have a default way of introducing a song to your students? For many years my default was to teach by rote. I'd sing the song for students and then ask them to echo the phrases back and forth until they’ve learned the piece. It’s functional, practical and gets the job done! But learnin...
How to Process a Song
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 03, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsYou’ve found a musical piece that you want to teach to your students. You might know exactly what you want to do with the piece, a slight idea or no idea at all. It may be a piece you heard recently at a workshop and want to find a way to incorporate. Or a song you came across in a resource, ...
Reviewing 2022 and Setting 2023
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - January 01, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHappy New Year!! It's the fourth annual goal review and goal setting episode! I'm sharing how some of my goals went for 2022 and giving a sneak peek into what I'm working towards in 2023. Want to work towards your goals?! Check out the Get Your Goals Course in the shop on my website. Eight...
Part II: Highlights from your Favorite Episodes in 2022
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - December 27, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday's episode will share segments from four of your favorite episodes from 2022: Episode 220: Empowering Ensemble with Tech with Theresa Hoover Episode 224: A Discussion about Music Education with Franklin Willis Episode 225: Canva with Janice Wintermyer Episode 226: The Myth of Doin...
Part I: Highlights from your Favorite Episodes in 2022
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - December 20, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIt's the end of the year and we're celebrating with highlights from some of the most downloaded episodes in 2022. You'll hear segments from: Episode 192: Singing with Amy Knous Episode 198: Student Choice with Christina Reardon Episode 206: Elemental Music with Kate Bright Episode 2...
Three December Activities Your Students Will Love
How To Teach Music with Jessica Grant - December 06, 2022 02:20 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLooking for something that's simple, fun and easy to teach this month? Here are three musical activities that my students love: 1 - A Musical Parody: Holiday Edition 2 - The Nutcracker Ballet 3 - Carol of the Bells (listen in to the most downloaded episode ever of Afternoon Ti for more de...
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