1. Pranks Against Teachers: The Teachers Fight Back
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

We have all heard the stories of teachers being goated into losing their temper in class by students whose motives were to record the event and then upload it to YouTube for the entire world to see.

2. CMP Diary- Making The Choice To Be A Better Teacher
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...I made in that post. Getting On The Right Track As I reflect on what the CMP is doing for me as a teacher I am struck by just how vital it is to have good teachers at EVERY stage of your life...

3. Teachers, professors differ on what's important
(Archived/Music Education News/Teaching Music)

Differences slither between schoolteachers, professors on what students should know may help high school teachers focus their coursework, but college faculty say they're focusing on the wrong thin

4. Remove poor teachers to save Detroit schools
(Archived/Music Education News/Music Administration)

... in its history, as thousands of students flee failing classrooms to find schools where their needs -- not teacher contracts or dysfunctional board politics -- come first. ...

5. My Comprehensive Musicianship Diary- Day 1
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...schools. The principals are applicable to every musical discipline. Today I have been interacting with teachers of all ages, ensembles, and sizes of school. Some have traveled as far as eight ho...

6. An Interview with Dick Meister: About Teachers and Teacher Pay
(Archived/Music Education News/General Education)

Michael F. Shaughnessy Senior Columnist EdNews.orgEastern New Mexico University Dick Meister is a San Francisco-based freelance writer whose columns and articles on labor, politics, international aff

7. Dealing with a Master of Deception: Homework Refusal & School Failure
(Archived/Music Education News/Teaching Music)

...concerns, identifies key issues, and offers strategies to resolve the problems."Can I demand that the teachers give me his homework assignments? When I request this information, the teachers won&...

8. Hurt teacher vows to see his attacker
(Archived/Music Education News/General Education)

PHILADELPHIA -- A high school teacher assaulted after he took an iPod away from a student says he will be in court to see one of the attackers sentenced.

9. A Brief Biography of Mozart
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

This document presents a brief biography of Mozart including his early childhood, travels, and demise in 1791. Born in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the second child in the family of Leopol

10. Violence Toward Teachers - Trend or Just Isolated Cases
(Archived/Music Education News/General Education)

A RECENT rash of violence against teachers is not a phenomenon, say officials who blame society and the media for exaggerating the import of individual cases.

11. Fla. student who mooned teacher sues
(Archived/Music Education News/General Education)

A high school senior acknowledges he went too far when he mooned a teacher. But he thinks the decision of school officials to send him to a new school for the rest of the year was too harsh, so his fa

12. Music program may see cuts (The Republican)
(Archived/Music Education News/Music Administration)

AMHERST - High School music teacher Brian Messier said a fellow teacher joked that Messier had become the poster child for school budget cuts. Messier has spoken before the Select Board and has been

13. SmartMusic Master Educators Share Their Secrets
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

...troduced there has been a three way division within the music education community.  First come music teachers that shun the idea of using such technology as being either too difficult or unnec...

14. The Habits of Musicianship- Initial Reactions
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...e the conference the method has been getting some significant attention on the MENC message boards from teachers who are looking for something new and innovative to replace the old, traditional me...

15. I Can Play Guitar: Review
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

It is not often that I get a chance to do a product review on a toy, but given that my audience here on MusicEdMagic is obviously slanted toward the musically minded I jumped at the chance to take a

16. Tips and Secrets of SmartMusic Master Educators
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

...troduced there has been a three way division within the music education community.  First come music teachers that shun the idea of using such technology as being either too difficult or unnec...

17. Via Wired.com- Could Guitar Hero Put Music Teachers Out Of Business?
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

When I saw this Guitar Hero headline in one of my many music and tech related RSS feeds I thought it required a closer inspection.  It turns out the article is a brief, tounge in cheek, assess

18. Comprehensive Musicianship-Researching Your Selection
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

... A CMP Resource Directory! It occured to me while doing my research that while I might read another teacher's lesson plan to get some ideas, I would likely be better off just having access...

19. Tokyo teachers punished for snubbing national anthem, flag (AFP via Yahoo! News)
(Archived/Music Education News/General Education)

Tokyo's metropolitan board of education said Friday it had punished 35 public school teachers for refusing to honour the country's anthem and flag at graduation ceremonies this month.

20. School Tells Teacher To Cover Up (The Tampa Tribune)
(Archived/Music Education News/Music Administration)

If you are a school teacher there are some things that you just simply don't do.  For most of us I think that being a stripper at a local theater would be one of those things...  Not for this gu

21. Accused Teacher Denies Surfing for Porn at School
(Archived/Music Education News/General Education)

Pornography that appeared on a classroom computer could land a teacher in jail for up to 40 years. Julie Amero says she wasn't surfing for porn during her seventh-grade class. Her lawyer claims

22. School Board OKs disputed pay system (Sun-Sentinel)
(Archived/Music Education News/Music Administration)

Teachers fought them all the way, but Volusia County School Board members Tuesday overrode objections to a merit-pay plan that will reward a quarter of the county's public school teachers with 5

23. Buying Cheap Clarinet Reeds: Let The Buyer Beware
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...lucky to get one or even two decent reeds out of the whole generic box of 100.  For all of you teachers out there be aware that these shoddy reed deals exist and that like most things you...

24. Scott DiTullio: Why Do I Teach?
(Archived/Music Education News/Teaching Music)

Guest Author Series #1: Why Do I Teach? Author: Scott DiTullio Profession: Director of Bands, Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District, PA "I recently co-wrote an article with Dr. Susan C

25. Tune up our training, say 'unskilled' music teachers (Guardian Unlimited)
(Archived/Music Education News/Teaching Music)

Primary school teachers feel they lack the necessary skills to teach music even though it is part of the national curriculum, according to the results of a survey published today.

26. Primary teachers out of tune with music lessons (Times Online)
(Archived/Music Education News/Teaching Music)

Primary school teachers lack the confidence to teach music and singing, according to a study. Music is compulsory until the age of 14 but less than an hour a week is devoted to it in most primary scho

27. YouTube Is Blocked? Using YouTube Videos At School
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

I recently added a new Educational Videos Section to the MusicEdMagic web site where students and teachers can find a variety of useful, fun, and educational YouTube videos on the topics of music ed

28. Music Games for Band and Choir Class
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

There was a time when band and choir teachers focused their rehearsals solely on the music for the next concert.  At the end of the day, the group might be able to play better, but chances were

29. The Piano Wizard: Review
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

...it comes to learning to play the piano there can be no doubt that lessons from a private, real life piano teacher is best. For many families a private piano teacher is simply not an option due to f...

30. Book Review: Growing Your Musician: A Practical Guide for Band and Orchestra Parents
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

...ting the fact that no child can really learn to play an instrument without a dedicated, resourceful music teacher to guide them.  His commentary points this fact out in many ways, drawing on p...