The Anacrusic Podcast

Oct 02 2024 147 ep. 29 mins 66
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Anne Mileski from anacrusic.com engages in meaningful conversations about music and music education. Following the mantra "purposeful, sequential, joyful" each episode highlights different topics elementary music teachers face each and every day in their school classrooms. The Anacrusic Podcast is a chance to put your arm around another music teacher buddy and start discovering your most joyful music teacher heart.

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TAP 144 - How to Fix Your Music Lesson Plan Before it Flops

Oct 02 2024 18 mins  
Today on the Anacrusic Podcast, I'm sharing three major things I learned about pushing and pivoting through a lesson plan. Listen to this episode for tricks on how to save your lesson plan in the moment! ========================== LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO ========================== ✨ Join the FREE Planning Challenge 👉 https://annemileski.com/challenge ✨ Snag the FREE S

TAP 143 - First Year Teacher Advice I Wish I Knew Starting Out

Jun 21 2024 9 mins  
⭐️ Join the NEW Anacrusic Community here 👉 https://annemileski.com/community If I could turn back time back to when I was about to trade in my trumpet for a tuning fork, these are the things I wish I would've known! These aren't necessarily the strategies and tips that you would learn in your college courses or summer trainings, but just honest advice from one of us.

TAP 142 - What Do I Do My First Year Teaching Elementary Music?

Jun 06 2024 26 mins  
⭐️ Join the NEW Anacrusic Community here 👉 https://annemileski.com/community If it's your first year teaching music, I made this podcast just for you! This episode is filled with five different things categories you should consider as you get ready for your first year of teaching. Whether or not you're a brand new music teacher, changing campuses, or simply moving fr

TAP 141 - Self Determination Theory in the Elementary Music Classroom

May 16 2024 26 mins  
In this episode, Anne discusses Self Determination Theory & Singing Games in the Elementary Music Classroom. This episode was inspired by some light research for improving students motivation and participation, particularly as students reach those upper elementary grades. By considering the three pillars of SDT: autonomy, competence, and relatedness, we can better promote stude

TAP 140 - I want to be a better music teacher, but where do I start?

Nov 12 2023 18 mins  
"I know this could be better."I know we've all had that thought. It's easy to go down that whole rigamarole of feeling like you're not living up to your potential in the music classroom, and to spiral down the different ways you could be doing things better.First things first: you're a caring, thoughtful teacher. You wouldn't be here if you weren&

TAP 139 - 4 Ways to Use Ostinato in Elementary Music

Jan 01 2023 22 mins  
Ostinato is not just a concept on your curriculum map to check off... in fact, it's much like all of the other things listed on that curriculum, it comes back again and again! But ostinati are special. They are not only a pathway to partwork, they are also opportunities for student choice, creativity, and independent musicianship.Today I'm sharing 4 ways that I use ostina

TAP 138 - How to Break Down Activities Over Multiple Elementary Music Lessons

Nov 20 2022 21 mins  
Something that I consistently hear from both practicing teachers and student teachers alike is "what is the best way to break down activities over multiple lessons?" It feels a little like you should be able to just sing the song and play the game. And yes, absolutely that is the goal for our students! But what if it's something a little more advanced, or we simply w

TAP 137 - Should I Script My Elementary Music Lessons?

Nov 13 2022 28 mins  
I recently received a piece of feedback that "scripting wasn't working for them." they felt like trying to create exactly what they would say in front of a group of students without actually being in front of that group felt really in authentic and not right.My response was, "well of course not." You would never want to read a prescribed script to your stud

TAP 136 - Getting Started with Creativity in Elementary Music

Nov 06 2022 27 mins  
Creativity is a BIG word. But getting started doesn't have to feel quite so hairy scary. Why? Because it really comes down to one thing: student choice.Today I'm talking about how to implement a few strategies to begin offering your students choice and facilitate creativity in your elementary music classroom today. Here are some of the things we talk about:Convergent vs.

TAP 135 - 3 Ways to Jumpstart Your Music Class

Sep 12 2021 25 mins  
Having an opening routine in your music class is a surefire way to get students primed and ready to go when they first walk into your classroom. It's no secret that I think having an intentional beginning sequence to your lessons is important--we've talked about it on a couple of podcasts so far (and are linked down below)I've even gone so far as to share what I do w