Solutions for the traveling music teacher with a focus on essential curriculum
Teaching Music On A Cart Available NOW from F-flat books & J.W. Pepper!
Whether you're discovering this resource for the first time or returning after hearing about it through a recent presentation, welcome! Since its release, this book has found its way into the hands of traveling and cart teachers across the country, and we continue to be encouraged by the response.
Created specifically for teachers who bring music education into classrooms without the benefit of a dedicated music room, this resource is packed with ready to use lesson plans, practical strategies, classroom tested tips, creative ideas, and encouragement for the unique challenges of teaching on the move. Our hope is that these pages help you spend less time reinventing lessons, find greater balance in your day, and provide an even richer musical experience for your students, no matter where you teach!
Teaching On A Cart contains a wealth of inspiration, tips, tricks, experiential knowledge and over TONS of original, engaging and effective lesson plans designed for the cart teacher with limited time and resources!
Available NOW from F-flat books and J.W. Pepper!
“Teaching On A Cart offers practical solutions and advice for the music teacher without a classroom. It contains solutions for storing your music room instruments and materials, setting up your cart for your own teaching needs, strategies and tips for teachers traveling between schools, guidelines and tips for teaching in someone else’s classroom, advantages of teaching on a cart and how to maximize them, examples of adapted lessons that work with a cart while also satisfying important educational goals we have for our classes, and more! This book will detail an essential curriculum, a list of teaching elements and objectives categorized by grade level that has been vital to my success in staying organized while keeping my lesson planning focused on what needs to be accomplished. If you are facing the challenges that come with teaching on a cart, I want you to know that while the situation is difficult. It is not impossible and this book will help you destress your day and provide the highest quality class experience to your students possible.”
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About the Author
Amy has been teaching students through music for seventeen years. She received her Bachelor in Music Education from Cumberland University in Tennessee in 2005 and her Masters in Music Education from the University of Nebraska in 2010. She has completed training in Level 1 and Level 2 Orff Schulwerk Pedagogy in Music and Movement and has presented at multiple conferences on the subjects of incorporating creative pedagogical teaching techniques. Her experiences in small rural school systems has meant that often she is the only music teacher to multiple schools and she does not often have a dedicated classroom space. Amy has a passion for early childhood music education, gardening and Tetris. She lives near Nashville, TN with her husband, two sons, a cat and two turtles.
She is currently teaching preK-5th grade at 4 different schools, from a cart.
Amy has taught as the adjunct Elementary Methods instructor at Cumberland University in the past
She studied Level 1 Orff Schulwerk at Belmont University, Nashville TN taught by Susan Ramsey
She studied Level 2 Orff Schulwerk at The San Francisco Orff Course taught by Paul Cribari
Amy has presented at the following;
-The Elementary Music Summit
-F Flat Books Back to School Symposium
-AMIS international Online Music Summit
-Multiple NAfME seminars
-The International Clarinet Association
-The National Conference for Kodaly Educators
-The Nebraska Educators Conference
