Integrating Technology into Your Music Room with Ease (30 Minutes)

Lifetime

All levels

1 lesson

1 quiz

59 students

Overview
Curriculum
Instructor

Course Description

This session will cover 5 ways to seamlessly integrate technology into your music classroom, including the use of websites and games, virtual instruments and artists, centers activities, composition and improvisation activities, and movement exploration ideas.

Course Objectives

1. Learn ways to combine technology with other means of instruction.

2. Discuss ways technology can enhance what you’re already doing with your students.

3. Discover ways to keep things simple for yourself and your students.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

1. Use technology in your music classroom confidently and easily.

2. Seamlessly integrate technology into the instruction already taking place in your music room.

3. Tackle mindset issues around using technology and face them head on.

Requirements for Completion

Jessica Peresta

Upon starting her first teaching position in the middle of the school year at a low income elementary school in Tulsa, OK, Jessica was asked to restart the music program which had been non-existent for 7 years. Over the next several years, Jessica created her own curriculum map and developed lesson plans that met her students where they were at. During her second year of teaching, she won the Teacher of the Year and Teacher of Today awards. Now, Jessica is the elementary music teacher at The Hill School in Fayetteville, AR and is the founder and CEO of The Domestic Musician, LLC, where products include the Curriculum Design Roadmap course, the HARMONY membership site, and the Elementary Music Teacher Blueprint course. She’s also the host of The Elementary Music Teacher podcast, the author of the book "Make A Note: What You Really Need To Know About Teaching Elementary Music", on the Teacher Advisory Board at Teacher Vision, and the professional development coordinator for F-flat Books. Jessica is passionate about teaching, curriculum design, mentoring and coaching music educators, and providing ongoing professional development for music teachers around the world. She holds a Bachelors of Music Education degree from Oral Roberts University and a Masters in Educational Technology degree from the University of Arkansas.