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Tutorial: DIY adaptive guitar picks
Adaptive guitar picks can be useful not only with physical skill differences but also sensory, attentional and social differences. Here are two types that we make ourselves and use.
The value of simple, live classroom accompaniment
It’s worth strumming a guitar, ukulele or autoharp with some of your classroom activities, even if you’re not a seasoned strings player. Here’s why.
Activity: The Little Green Frog
A charming and catchy short song with many uses: steady beat, instrument exploration, simple harmonic accompaniment, expressive movement, and decoding quarter notes and eighth notes like in Conversational Solfege Unit 1.
Using Hello Songs to Support Student Growth
Hello songs are an indispensible method of creating routine and predictability and sense of safety in music class, but we don’t just sing hello at kids. Here’s how we engage them.
Things To Know About Us
More information about our content and delivery approach. This information may be useful in helping you decide whether we would be a good fit for your learning needs.
Intro to Adaptive Music Education: Our signature PD
A detailed description of our most popular professional development session.
Watch the Children: Our classroom mantra
When in doubt, we always fall back on these three words to guide us in the classroom.
Who Are Our Students? Language and contextual information
Clarifying who is among our student population and why we use the words that we do to describe them.
Tutorial: How to make choice cards
Everything you need to know about making effective, durable choice cards.
Adaptive Music Teaching Tool: All about choice cards
Choice boards don’t work for all students. Adding choice cards to your toolkit will bring access and inclusion to more of your students, and it’s easy to do.
An Essential Adaptive Music Tool: Choice boards
If I could add only one new tool to the music teaching strategies I had before I discovered adaptive music, it would be choice boards.
What are accessible and adaptive music education?
Accessible and adaptive music education are both about meeting the needs of all learners, but are the two terms interchangeable?