I love finding new and inspiring ideas when I visit teaching friends in other specialty subjects. My 8th grade homeroom students get instrumental music twice a week from their music teacher.
If it were me teaching music with my extremely limited knowledge (ahem non-existent) of instrumental music, we might end up playing “Name That Tune” for the entire year – each week focusing on a different decade of music.
Since my students are so lucky to be taught by such talented teachers, I have taken lots of photos of two different music classrooms to provide other instrumental music teachers with some ideas for their own classrooms.
Classroom Management
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| Anchor charts help students remember routines so that the first few minutes of class are purposeful. |
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| Classroom Expectations |
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| Agenda Board – Students read as they enter the classroom. This helps to avoid the “What are we doing today?” questions. |
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| Another take on the agenda board – updated as each class enters. |
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| Folders for sheets that help students learn their instrument. |
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| Classroom management point system using is a music note theme. 
Instrument Care |
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| Mouth piece sanitation system. |
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| Reed apartments. Love this! No more stray reeds on my classroom floor. |
Co-Created Music Bulletin Boards
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| Growth Mindset in a music classroom. |
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| Music has so many transferable skills. |
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| Students helped develop this poster about the importance of music education. |
Instrument Storage and Sign Out
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| Instrument Sign Out Cards – organized by instrument, filled out by the student, placed in the pocket chart and then returned to the filing system when it is returned. |
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| Instrument sign out pockets for the sign out cards. |
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Instrument sign out pockets for the sign out cards.
I love the picture of the instrument above the sign out cards. |
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| Instrument cases are labelled with a letter code and number. I think this is Baritone 1. |
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| Instrument Sheet Music Books Storage |
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| Sheet Music Book Sign Out System |
I hope this blog post was helpful for instrumental music teachers. You are a great group of teachers who I love working with to co-plan school Arts events.
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