Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches

Do you find it challenging to integrate technology into your elementary music classroom? Do you feel that it could enhance your classroom experience if you could implement it in an approachable and realistic way? In Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches, author Amy M. Burns offers an all-in-one, classroom-vetted guide to integrate technology into the music classroom while keeping with core educational strategies. In this book, you will find practical lessons and ideas that can be used in any elementary classroom, whether that classroom has one device per educator or a device for every student. Written for a range of experience levels, lessons further enhance classrooms that utilize the approaches of Feierabend, Kodály, Orff Schulwerk, and project-based learning. Experts from each field-Dr. Missy Strong, Glennis Patterson, Ardith Collins, and Cherie Herring-offer a variety of approaches and project ideas in the project-based learning section. Complemented by a companion website of lesson videos, resource guides, and more, Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches allows new and veteran educators to hit the ground running on the first day of school.

Amy M. Burns has taught Preschool-grade four general music for over 20 years at Far Hills Country Day School. She has written three books on how to integrate tech into the elementary music classroom. She is the recipient of the 2005 TI:ME Teacher of the Year, 2016 NJ Master Music Teacher, 2016 Governor's Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Awards.

Chapter 1: What Is This Book All About?

Chapter 2: Why Would We Use Technology in the Elementary Music Classroom?

Chapter 3a: Feierabend Approach by Dr. Missy Strong

Chapter 3b: Technology Integration with First Steps

Chapter 4a: The Kod?ly Approach to Teaching Music: An Overview by Glennis Patterson

Chapter 4b: Technology Integration with the Kod?ly Approach

Chapter 5a: Orff Schulwerk: An Approach to Possibilities by Ardith Collins

Chapter 5b: Technology Integration with the Orff Schulwerk Approach

Chapter 6: Project-Based Learning, with Cherie Herring

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Chapter 8: Links Listed Throughout the Book and Program Descriptions

Chapter 9: Glossary