Making Each Minute Count: Time-Savers, Tips, and Kid-Tested Strategies for the Music Class [Paperback]

Cheryl Lavender (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1990

Look who's having the best time ... THE MUSIC TEACHER! This comprehensive time-management resource book for the music specialist can help you stay fresh and on top of things even with back-to-back music classes. Based on years of classroom experience, the author shares her philosophy of helping students learn HOW to learn. There are literally dozens of ideas to help you FIND time, STRETCH time, SAVE time, and MAKE more time to meet all your instructional goals. This book will place the magic wand that casts the magic spell of musical learning into your hand. The book is divided into 12 sections to help you achieve maximum student response in minimum lesson time. You can make each minute count by choosing and adapting musical activities that appeal to your own teaching situation. Topics include: Attitude and Atmosphere, Classroom Management and Discipline, Incredibly Successful Teaching Strategies, Attention Grabbers, Hello and Goodbye (Personalizing Your Music Class), Musical Warm-Ups (Mind-Body-Voice), Introducing and Digesting New Songs, Musical Learning Outcomes (Assessment Methods), Making the Music Room Our Own, Beyond the Music Room (Public Relations), Awards, Forms Documents and More! For all ages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 227 pages
• Publisher: Jenson Publications (April 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793503485
• ISBN-13: 978-0793503483
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,058,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sensible Resource for Elementary School Teachers, August 20, 2004

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This review is from: Making Each Minute Count: Time-Savers, Tips, and Kid-Tested Strategies for the Music Class (Paperback)

I'm an elementary school music teacher for an Asian country, and I must say that this book has been a very useful resource and I do not regret buying it.

The cons of this book is that stuff like classroom management techniques are highly cultural sensitive - so it is definitely more suitable for the context of American classrooms.

However, many of the teaching techniques mentioned will definitely inspire you to make your lessons more interesting for children. They also seem to correspond quite closely with the 'learning through doing' techniques for teaching music to children that I was highly ingrained with during my pre-service training.

In short, this book is a sensible read and resource for elementary school music teachers who wish to inject a more creative approach towards teaching in their classrooms. It far beats some of those books which boast of a 101 music games etc etc which leave you with a feeling that you are running a circus rather than a music class.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful book, October 10, 2004

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Christine Kharazian "Christine M.K." - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Each Minute Count: Time-Savers, Tips, and Kid-Tested Strategies for the Music Class (Paperback)

This is a useful book for music educator who works with big classes. However if you are looking for ready-to-use lesson plans this book is not for you. The core idea is how to teach rather than what to teach. The author shares her ideas on classroom management,and presents various teaching strategies on how to introduce the material. I used some of the ideas from this book in the classroom. They worked like magic!

No one knew I was not the magician. Thank you, Ms. Lavender.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great resource, January 8, 2006

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Lizanell Boman "lizanell" (Logan, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Each Minute Count: Time-Savers, Tips, and Kid-Tested Strategies for the Music Class (Paperback)

I agree with earlier reviewers, this book is a great resource for the music teacher but is not for you if you are looking for ready-made lesson plans. It's formatted in a very user friendly way and I especially love the warm-ups.