Teaching recorder

I am excited to partner with Oak Meadow today to bring you this GIVEAWAY and sponsored post on How to Teach your Child to Play the Recorder. A long time ago, when I was freshly out of teacher's college and hunting for that first time teaching job I had an interview for a position as

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Did you just throw a song on the whiteboard and try to teach it, as is, like I did my first year? We didn’t get far.

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Teaching Recorder: Top Tips. Organized Chaos. Compilation of all of the best ideas and tips for teaching recorder. Tips for getting a recorder program started, which instruments to buy, organization tips, teaching strategies, lesson plans, and more.

By sharing this first recorder lesson for kids and related worksheets I am hoping to help teachers and parents to save time.

Teaching the recorder can be a very rewarding experience. It can also be a very stressful one. What helps, besides experience, is planning. The best thing you can do before entering the music classroom is to have a clear plan of what you want your students to learn. Simply having a recorder curriculum is not […]

A few years ago, I was feeling SUPER frustrated with my recorder curriculum. I didn’t see the retention I wanted, left hands were everywhere but on top even with reminders, students memorizing and forgetting, and memorizing those songs for belt tests… WHY? “Belt” Resource issues: Kids focused on the prize but didn’t retain note names. Music was […]

So, my first year teaching I hated teaching recorder. It was so much work and so much logistical planning and so much stress. It took some time, research, and planning to make it fun. Now I really like playing and teaching recorder. Here are some little tips I’ve picked up […]

It's easy to figure out what songs, notes, and skills I need to learn to earn new belts with this simple Recorder Karate hallway display!