Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day

by Elizabeth Ann McAnally

Overview

Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general music, it offers strategies and lessons that have been created in the real world of general music by a practicing teacher.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475814866
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/06/2016
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Ann McAnally is a middle school general music teacher and choral director in Philadelphia, PA, where she is very busy but never bored. In addition to teaching, she writes, speaks, and consults on the topics of middle school general music, urban music education, and curriculum development.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Creating Chapter 2: Performing Chapter 3: Responding Chapter 4: Connecting References Appendix A: Activities to Strengthen Notation Skills Appendix B: Tips for Working with Adolescents Appendix C: Resources About the Author

Editorial Reviews

If there is one book to read before teaching general music to middle school students, this is it! Elizabeth Ann McAnally entertains the reader with humorous anecdotes while sharing creative yet practical advice for developing successful learning experiences based on each of the new national standards. A wealth of valuable information awaits both the novice and the experienced teacher. By applying the innovative ideas this book offers, teachers will make middle school general music class exciting, engaging, and rich with memorable skill-building activities, cultivating a lifetime of musical enjoyment.

Debbie Lynn Wolf

This edition of Middle School General Music is a masterfully sequenced book for fostering a love of music making with middle school students. The author realistically combines elements of creating, performing, and responding to promote successful connections to the artistic processes students experience in music classrooms. Music educators will find this book an indispensable resource.

Shelly Cooper

Drawing from many years of exemplary middle school teaching, Elizabeth McAnally unpacks Standards and displays them beautifully in real-world methods, techniques, and strategies that will work in any classroom. High expectations and joyful learning are possible at the middle level, and this book will guide and inspire new and veteran teachers alike.

Kevin Mixon

This book is an excellent resource for teaching general/vocal music to students in the middle years. It is based on real-world experiences from a veteran teacher who demonstrates compassion for meeting the challenges of teaching adolescents in an urban environment. Highly recommended!

Viginia Lam

Where was this book when I first taught sixth-grade general music? Elizabeth Ann McAnally has written an excellent book, organized around the National Standards for Music Education, that every middle school—and upper elementary!—general music teacher will want to read and use. This is an easy read and is chock-a-block full of specific teaching strategies and games that are highly appealing, age-appropriate, and musical for today’s middle schoolers.

Diane Persellin

Middle School General Music is firmly grounded in the belief that learning to do music results in learning about music. Instead of the far too-common drudgery of stereotypical worksheet-and-lecture music appreciation classes, McAnally offers activity-based music activities designed with the needs and interests of young adolescents in mind. These activities will apply equally well in school music situations with a variety of resources and budgets. McAnally's affinity for the middle school general music student shines through in this practical, approachable book.

Patrick K. Freer

This book is an excellent resource for teaching general/vocal music to students in the middle years. It is based on real-world experiences from a veteran teacher who demonstrates compassion for meeting the challenges of teaching adolescents in an urban environment. Highly recommended!

Virginia Lam