Secular Musicals - Classroom

Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching provides future teachers of group piano with an extensive framework of concepts upon which effective and dynamic teaching strategies can be explored and developed. Within fifteen chapters, it encompasses learning theory, group process, and group dynamics within the context of group-piano instruction. This book encourages teachers to transfer learning and group dynamics theory into classroom practice. As a piano pedagogy textbook, supplement for pedagogy classes, or resource for graduate teaching assistants and professional piano teachers, the book examines learning theory, student needs, assessment, and specific issues for the group-piano instructor.

Grades K-6 * From notespeller crosswords and composer word scramble/searches to instrument matching activities, quarter-note mazes and everything in between, this book lives up to its "ultimate" title. Its more than 40 puzzles are divided into three topic areas-terms and symbols, instruments and ensembles, and composers, eras and works. The puzzles within each category get progressively more difficult, and the level of difficulty of each puzzle is specified in the contents. All are useful for assessment and inclusion in your students' portfolios, keeping the class on task and learning while you give recorder tests, or leaving for a substitute teacher who may not have music experience.

Colorful geometrical pentagors, composed of pentagons and triangles and dissected into pieces: Can you put the shapes together again to form a whole? A classic paradox about the nature of motion from a famous Greek mathematician: Can you see what’s wrong with it? Put on your thinking cap and prepare to give your math and logic abilities a workout, because these super-looking puzzles demand real brainpower. Solve a graphic problem that involves the calculation of a square root. Examine six linear processions of egg-carrying ants, and figure out which lines are “surprising” and which ones aren’t. Go step by step through a multihued grid and try to find 32 different configurations within. These puzzles are challenging, entertaining, and satisfying to unravel.