an alert to a 1-year free membership in the Ontario Music Educators' Association
rhythm & other small musical instruments, posters, big books, puppets
student textbooks for K to 6 with accompanying teacher guides
children's picture books with connections to music
information books about music and musicians (shelved in the M section!)
professional magazines for PJ teachers, including current issues of The Recorder (OMEA) and the Canadian Music Educator (CMEA)
hundreds of professional resources for teachers of music, including lesson plans, instructional strategies, ideas for connecting literacy and music, and more
MusicPlay from Themes & Variations ( set up your account here for Queen's Faculty of Education)
Ebooks for children & teachers, including Tumblebooks with its Tumbletunes
Video from curio.ca (CBC), Campus (NFB), & On-Core
Docrat, Y. (2020). Why generalist K-12 teachers should use the arts to support students with exceptionalities in mainstream schools (even if they don’t consider themselves to be artistically inclined). schoolrubric.com
Edutopia.(2020, February 7). Arts Integration: New Studies Link the Arts to Crucial Cognitive Skills.
Conti, G. & Sloan, A. (30 July 2024). Five Ways Music Can Improve Student Mental Health. ASCD.
Korbey, Holley. (2022, April 22). How Music Primes the Brain for Learning. Edutopia.
People for Education. Arts Education, 2018.
People for Education. Annual Report, 2019.
Royal Conservatory of Music. (2014). The Benefits of Music Education.
Royal Conservatory of Music. (2014). The Benefits of Music Education infographic.
Upitis, Rena. (2003). What is arts education good for? Education Canada, 43.4.
Upitis, Rena. (2011). Arts education for the development of the whole child. ETFO.
This guide is related to this article:
Rowe, M., Rowe, Kirby, A., Dahbi, M. & Luk, G. (2022). Promoting language and literacy skills through music in early childhood classrooms. The Reading Teacher Nov. 2022.
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/trtr.2155
MusicPlay Online is available to Queen's teacher candidates!
Faculty of Education students, staff, and faculty: your username and password for MusicPlay is on the Passwords page.
The MusicPlay binders and CDs are in our Teacher Resource Room Kit collection, and we have many of the other Themes & Variations materials in Teaching Collection on Floor 2.
Miller, D. Music in the Classroom (from Happy Reading). View the full video in Kanopy or On-Core.
Reading with Meaning
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In the second edition of Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller shares her new thinking about comprehension strategy instruction, the gradual release of responsibility instructional model, and planning for student engagement and independence. It has been ten years since the first edition, in which Debbie chronicled a year in her own classroom. Reading with Meaning, Second Edition supports that work and expands her vision of strategy instruction and intentional teaching and learning. Debbie believes that every child deserves at least a full year of growth during each classroom year and offers planning documents with matching assessments to ensure that no child falls through the cracks. The second edition also provides new book recommendations that will engage and delight students, and current picture books for reading aloud and strategy instruction. This new edition reflects Debbie's professional experiences and judgment, her work in classrooms and collaboration with colleagues, and the current research in the field, showcasing her newest, best thinking.
Focus on arts education. (Dec2018 / Jan2019). Educational Leadership.
Upitis, R. (2011). Engaging Students Through the Arts. What Works? Research into Practice. Student Achievement Division, Ontario Ministry of Education.
Upitis, R. (2014). Cultivating Student Engagement Through Interactive Art Strategies. What Works? Research into Practice. Student Achievement Division, Ontario Ministry of Education.
This Too Is Music
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This Too is Music guides and motivates teachers to foster playful and motivating classroom conditions that enable elementary students to thrive as musicians in every way-as singers, improvisers, critical listeners, storytellers, dancers, performers, and composers.
Told through anecdotes and illustrated with musical examples, the book explores how all of these aspects of music making are intertwined, quelling any doubts teachers may have regarding their abilities to create an environment where children can improvise, dance, compose, and notate their musical offerings. While the book acknowledges the importance of traditional approaches to teaching notation and performance, the emphasis is on the student's point of view, illustrating how young musicians can learn when their musical ideas are honored and celebrated. Various teaching ideas are presented-some exploratory in nature, others involving direct instruction.
Regardless of their nature, all of the activities arise from research on children's musical development in general and their development of notational systems in particular. The ideas and activities have been tested in multiple elementary-classroom environments and pre-service settings. The activities center on music through movement, song, various types of performances, improvisation, and composition and notational development. These activities, which encompass both small-scale classroom lessons and large-scale productions, engage children across subjects, including language, drama, and mathematics. Activities encompass both small-scale classroom lessons and large-scale productions. The book underscores the timeless quality of this pedagogy; even in our digital age, this musical environment appeals to children.
The work invites readers to adapt the ideas to their own teaching settings, showing both pre-service and established teachers that they can teach music creatively to build community and to inspire all who enter there.
Companion Site for This Too is Music!