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My roommate and I are looking for a nice, clean, quiet place in a very tight and expensive market. She is a voice major and wants to teach small group music lessons for toddlers and small children during the day - maybe once or twice a week for a couple of hours a day. The kids are always accompanied by their parents and the activities don’t involve food or paint or any messy or noisy activities.

We want to know if we are legally required to tell our future landlords about her plans or if it will be along the same lines as having friends over a few times a week.

We already had one landlord say "He doesn’t want kids in his house" but we don’t have kids living there or eating there or doing any of the messy kid things. We felt this was an unreasonable attitude. We can’t see it being a problem but we are worried about being turned away from other places and not having anywhere to live next month.

If we didn’t tell them, could they come back and say we deceived them? Would they have grounds to evict us? We want to be upfront but are scared they would jump to the wrong idea of what she would be doing and imagine it would be like a daycare which it is not like at all.

She has made plans to get liability insurance and all the other necessary arrangements.

Do we need to tell them?

You won’t get a business license without the landlords permission. It is also VERY probable that the house is not zoned for business. If you have more then 2 visitors a day to a home business you need to be dual zoned, commercial/residential.

I am studying to be an Early Childhood Teacher and we have to come up with some lessons plans for them. I need some fun and creative ideas to do with three year olds.

Try a freeze dance. Put on some music and just dance, but when the music stops, everybody has to freeze. Children love this. It’s open-ended. The children can be doing anything as long as they are moving, but when they freeze they can make a silly pose!

Art activities should be open-ended too. Don’t try to get them to copy a specific craft. Just let them create. Put out empty toilet tissue tubes and a variety of small pieces of paper or tissue paper, chenille sticks, googly eyes, glue, aluminum foil, feathers, etc. and let them make whatever you have read a story about. Maybe a monster, a dinosaur, a bug, etc. Or look up a play dough recipe on line and then make it with the children. (Teaches measuring, and builds fine motor strength because the dough has to be kneaded.) Then let them play with it.

I have to write a music lesson plan for one of my classes. I need a song to teach. Someone please help, my mind is blank! something suitable for pre-k up to 3rd grade. Thanks!

Anything by Raffi is great!!! Here are a couple of web sites.
He sings great songs like: Baby Beluga, Down By the Bay, The Wheels on the Bus, and much, much more!

I am writing a music lesson plan and can’ t come up with objectives. This is my first lesson plan, and I’m really stuck. Can anyone help? I’m teaching the song pretty flowers:

PRETTY FLOWERS
Tune: "Jingle Bells"

Pretty flowers, pretty flowers,
Growing everywhere.
Here are some pretty flowers
For your coat or hair.

Pretty flowers, pretty flowers,
Gold and pink and blue.
Red and yellow, orange and purple,
I picked them just for you!

First of all, your student is probably familiar with the tune of jingle bells, unless they’re quite young. Have them sing it without words or with the "jingle bell"words, just to get them familiar with the tune again. Sing it with them the first few times just to make sure they’ve got it. Then sing it for them and ask them what patterns they notice in the song. (how many phrases, what key/tonality it’s in, repetition, etc.)

Then have them sing it and assess them–from there it’s tailoring the lesson to the student’s needs

When teaching lessons, i find it’s better to have more to accomplish and not get to it in the lesson than to have not enough to work on and be bored/unproductive. Maybe have another song that’s a bit harder than this (one without a familiar tune but with easy lyrics perhaps?) Just in case your student is proficient at the song.

Hope that helps, happy teaching!

I’m a second-year music education major and I really want to start teaching privately to elementary-school students who have little to no experience.

Pretty much, for those of you who have taught before, how should I start a lesson and how much information should I go over per lesson? I plan on grabbing my old Standard of Excellence and taking some exercises from there.

Thanks for the help in advance!!
Good for you, as a music ed major, wanting to get into this early! Almost ALL private teachers of ALL instruments will NOT use a band method - even one that was good for teaching in school - because the entire purpose of those methods (and you must know several of them) is to get kids playing ANYTHING together, fast. This means that almost all the instruments are compromised. The entire last chapter of the National Flute Association booklet on teaching etudes, is about why NOT to use these! I would have a master trumpet teacher advise you about what instructional book to use, that would make your students’ progress best. The conventions ( and dealers) for Music Ed are going to push those BAND CLASS books - naturally - but if attend a TRUMPET convention, then see who is smart in brass pedagogy, and take it from there.

Most of us have our own system for beginners - no book at all. We teach skills on the instruments, and note-reading - and technique should ALWAYS be ahead of reading - and when the kids are ready, get them into a solo collection. that way, no possible conflict with questionable pedagogical practices, the kids HAS to listen to YOU - and they feel that they are not in a *school* book - but *already playing solos!*.

Never be afraid to ask for help. Join an online group of trumpet players and trumpet teachers - look in Yahoo Groups, or see if your own trumpet professional group ( you ARE a member, are you not?) has an online forum. See if a fine private teacher will let you observes a few lessons - NOT your old teacher, either - somebody else. Network with the local, county and state teachers - volunteer to help at festivals, conventions, etc, - get yourself known. This will also be useful when you are seeking a JOB - lots of jobs are filled before they are ever advertised - somebody knows this kids graduating, etc. I wish you MUCH LUCK - education is going to change a LOT in the next few years.

I am 17 years old, a new senior in high school, and I play flute and plan to major in flute performance in college. I need a job to start saving money for not only college, but plane flights to all my college auditions. I would like to possibly start giving private lessons to little kids starting out on flute, and was looking for any advice or warnings people might have to offer. I have thought about this, its not just a whim, and I will definately be organized and have a plan. I have been playing for 8 years, and I am an experienced player, but I have never taught anyone really. Any thoughts? How should I go about trying to start this, and finding students?

As a younger teacher, you need to target your audience carefully. Keep in mind that there are probably very experienced teachers in your area with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in flute performance, education, or pedagogy. With that being the case, make sure you target people just starting on the instrument that you can help without the student feeling like you aren’t qualified enough. Also, you will need a competitive rate. If a teacher with a master’s in flute pedagogy is offering lessons at $30 for 45 minutes, you’re going to have to beat it based on the fact that you aren’t as experienced.

Perhaps you could also give them something a lot of teachers don’t: travel to the students’ home. You probably don’t have a studio, so I’m sure this works in your best interest. The best place to start is usually at local churches. You could also get your high school teacher to recommend you to the elementary or middle school teachers. I’m pretty sure that the parents of those prospective students will want their band and orchestra directors to vouch for your skill. A call from your director will take care of that.

From a fiscal standpoint, make sure you get paid up front. I like to have my students pay me for the next month up front. If they cancel and can’t reschedule, you don’t lose out. By make them pay upfront, you put the pressure on them to redeem those lessons. After all, you would be setting aside your time for their lesson anyways. This way, you can always plan ahead if they do cancel.

I am in this preschool class in my school and i am going to do a lesson plan for th kids. I need three fine motor skills and I need to know which ones will help me the most? List the title of the activity and instructions.

musical instruments are great - even just music sticks - crossing the midline. Counting songs are great putting their fingers up one at a time and taking them away one at a time. Sign language songs.

WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com Alhtough Mr. Zander is addressing the errors that the Classical Music Leaders have made…. one could make the same argument about Education……

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I am writing a music lesson plan and can’ t come up with objectives. This is my first lesson plan, and I’m really stuck. Can anyone help? I’m teaching the song pretty flowers:

PRETTY FLOWERS
Tune: "Jingle Bells"

Pretty flowers, pretty flowers,
Growing everywhere.
Here are some pretty flowers
For your coat or hair.

Pretty flowers, pretty flowers,
Gold and pink and blue.
Red and yellow, orange and purple,
I picked them just for you!

First you need to figure out what this song is going to accomplish. Are you teaching about colors? Flowers? Steady beat? Dynamics? Tempo?
Were you given this song and then you have to come up for a lesson for it? Did you just randomly pick this song because you liked it? If you’re not attached to this song, sometimes it’s easier to start with an objective and choose a song that fits your goal. What age are you teaching this song to? (It’s great for preschool… but I see you’ve posted this question elsewhere. Be advised that it’s a little young for anything over Kindergarten)
That’s all I can help you with for now… but if you need more help I’d be glad to offer advice!

WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com The fundamental concepts of musical strings are presented with examples and applications

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