s workshop will focus on the basics of incorporating guitar and ukulele into your music program.

There are specific strategies that can assist us as we plan and present instruction to students with disabilities and differences. Accommodations can be transferred to music classrooms and ensembles. Through careful adaptations and modifications when needed, we can truly meet the needs of all students.

This session will use various cognitive routines (such as "See-Think-Wonder") to guide educators on how to lead classroom discussions of printed music which uses traditional and nontraditional notation, with young students. Concepts and strategies covered in this session will focus on the Music Standards of Learning of the strand: Critical Thinking and Communication.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school choral music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and artist.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for middle school choral music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary general music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades kindergarten through fifth.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary and middle school instrumental music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: Elementary, MS Beginning, MS Intermediate and MS Advanced.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school instrumental music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced and artist.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school music theory in a chart format.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for middle and high school music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades six through twelve.

The attached infographic resource document describes ways to engage English Learners in music classrooms by making learning visible, supporting the language of music, connecting learning to students' backgrounds and skills, using cooperative learning structures and strategies, and reducing cognitive load and allowing processing time.

In June 2022, the Virginia Department of Education fine arts program hoste a music and culture Institute for Virginia music educators to collaborate with and learn from musicians from Southwest Virginia. This resource list was used by the educator team to build background knowledge, and educators and clinicians provided additional resources and suggested classroom activities. This resource page is a short collection of resources that can be used by music educators to respectfully include music and culture from Southwest Virginia in music classroom instruction.

This activity integrates telling time with dancing. Students have fun while dancing to some of their favorite music.  The students can build on their background knowledge of analog clocks.  Times indicated on the clocks show time to the hour, quarter past, half past, quarter to, 5 minutes).  This is a fun way to help students become masters at telling time.

Rockin Russian is designed to give students exposure to the Russian language and culture through the medium of Russian music videos. Students are able to perfect their grammar while rocking out to music videos from Russia's pop stars. Based on Russian music videos from MTV Russia, Rockin' Russian is supplemented with exercise materials focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary development, grammar and cultural features. Parts of the videos are embedded into exercises in each category that students can revisit, strengthening their language skills.

After viewing the video “Anatomy of an Appalachian Tune.” Virginia Roots: A Journey into Appalachian Music, from Blue Ridge PBS, students will learn to sing several verses of the melody of an Appalachian old-time song. Students will then “piggyback” on the melody and form of an old-time song to create their own verse. Then, students will combine their verses to create a class version of the chosen old-time song.

Description: Throughout the world and history musical instruments have been used to communicate, a source of entertainment and rituals. Your group will use your knowledge of sound to design your own musical instruments and create an original music composition to entertain your class.

This three-day lesson is intended to guide students through the difficult history topic of lynching through the Billie Holliday song “Strange Fruit.”

Identify and perform the melody and harmony of old-time and Bluegrass music then transfer this knowledge to perform on other old-time or classroom instruments.

Learn about the connections between the arts and the Earth. Make art at home using natural and recycled materials, travel the world to see some of the planet’s oldest paintings (in caves!), and check out an Earth-friendly music video featuring primary school students in Mamelodi Township, South Africa.

This lesson uses Panic at the Disco's song, "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" to explore specific literary elements: metaphor, inversion, irony, and tone in order to consider how these devices help shape meaning. Students will work in pairs to employ close-reading skills for specific analytical tasks. They will reflect on their learning continuously throughout the lesson. The lesson will culminate with a brief analytical paragraph that asks them to consider how the figurative devices employed by the songwriters shapes meaning. Finally, they will reflect on the process of close-reading to consider how this process informed their understanding of the text and how they can transfer this skill to other analytical tasks.