The Flipped Classroom - A Musical Buffet YouTube presentation for Upper Valley Music Teachers Association
This post includes resources that I mentioned in my presentation at UVMTA about flipped learning in the music studio.
Click the image above to view the slideshow presentation for UVMTA on flipped learning in the music classroom, which includes hyperlinks or browse some of the resources that were mentioned below.
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
An AI search about flipped learning in the music studio brings up a video about inversions😄.While inversions are definitely flipped and introduced in the music studio, there's a lot more to this topic. Here's a fun picture one of my students drew for the "You Be the Teacher" challenge.
Flipped learning is more about self-directed learning where students come prepared to class or lessons after previously learning a new topic on their own. This is often done through videos or online content for music teaching, flipping the focus from teacher-led to student-centered.
I also think of flipping the roles where the students do more of the teaching, as in my "You Be the Teacher" challenge. Flipping the learning often leads to more intrinsic motivation where students keep asking for more of an activity because they love it so much. My students definitely love the games they start lessons with like this music staff Sorry Sliders!
After a quick game during buddy lessons where students are paired with one other student who comes at the same time, they then take turns either coming to their private lesson with me or going to the "musical buffet lab" in the room next door where they eat their vegetables (do a few required activities correlating to their upcoming pieces) and then choose from whatever desserts they would like (online music game apps, supplementary music repertoire videos, improvisation activities, etc.).
Click this image to explore the free resources I have organized that pair with every piece in the Piano Adventures, Piano Pronto, and supplementary music books. I have identified the key concepts so that you can also use these resources in conjunction with various method books and simply review the topics paired with each piece (intervals, staccato, hand crossovers, relative keys, etc.). The ones listed below are just the tip of the iceberg!
Resources for Music Samples
Some favorite Music Sample video sources of mine are shown below, but you can view specific ones tied to each piece in the lesson book plans.
YouTube Line Riders (Classical pieces, funified!)
University of Iowa Piano Ped Videos - almost 9000 quality-sounding classic repertoire pieces played by professionals
Amy Comparetto - Piano teacher demo videos of favorite method and supplementary book pieces including Piano Adventures Alfred, Snell, Marlais, etc.
Music History Resources
Classics for Kids Podcasts - Brief (about 5 min) podcasts about composers, music styles, forms, etc. with short excerpts of pieces kids relate to presented in an engaging announcer.
Leila Viss Get Inspired Videos - Music video and activity compilations about musical periods, music from different countries, music styles, etc. more suitable for a teen audience to explore.
Music Theory Resources
Colourful Keys - Very short theory concept explanations perfect for children's attention spans.
(Scroll down on Nicola's YouTube channel to find Scale Reminder Videos and Thinking Theory Playlists US) This is just one of many!
TonicTutor.com Quick music games that foster overall musicianship. Teachers can customize the levels for students or groups of students and add studio contests to reward effort and accomplishment.
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Pedaplus Flash Games - Free quick online games to quickly identify notes, intervals, key signatures, etc.
Teoria.com - Online tutorials and games for beginner to advanced music concepts including chord id, interval ear training, etc.
Pianote YouTube Channel - Pop Songs, Chords, Arpeggios, Tutorials are presented with enthusiasm and include technique and improvisation tips.The Piano Prof Kate Boyd YouTube Channel - Beginner through Advanced Level Tips - Content is created by a college piano professor and is more engaging for teens/adults. I prefer to share the "shorts" with students since some videos can be a bit long.
Composing and Improvisation
This was a fun resource that one of my students shared with me, not intended for composing but definitely fun to improvise or play scales with.
Forrest Kinney's Create First Improvisation books are a great start for any age.
I love how he shows both a sample and an explanation of how he created his improvisations in his tutorial videos. Pattern Play is the first book I tried since my teachers never taught me to improvise. My favorite is a fun African-style improv helpful for teaching 6/8 vs 3/4, but it is more for late elementary/intermediate skill levels.
Create First was created later and is a bit simpler than the Pattern Play series making it accessible for younger students.
Technique
Links to Piano Safari Reminder Videos - I use these rote pieces to teach technique skills like arm weight, portato, legato, staccato, flexible wrist, etc. Students love them because they can play more sophisticated-sounding music by rote while they are still learning to master reading the complexities of the staff with simple songs in the method books. Reminder videos are great to help them remember the patterns or allow them to go even further exploring at home if we didn't learn the whole piece at lessons.
Graham Fitch 4 Types of Staccato - A masterclass video with free printable worksheet to guide students' learning
Supplementary Music
I added possible supplementary pieces below the posts about lesson book assignments that have similar concepts or moods. Students can watch videos and decide if they would like to learn additional pieces that spark their interest. This helps them find music they love, and helps me to organize and actually utilize many of the resources in my music library more regularly.
These Wunderkeys pieces have been recent hits with many of my tween/teens, and I love how they help them be more comfortable with hand shifts, syncopated rhythms, and multiple keys that may not be in their lesson book repertoire. Andrea and Trevor Dow at Teach Piano Today have a lot of free music games and resources on their blog as well, but these pieces are even satisfying for me as a teacher to play!
Nocturne Sessions - Classical Pop Arrangements
Will Baily Free Tunes Organized by Concept and Level - Will Baily has many free pieces w/ backing tracks that energize students. His site is a bit hard to navigate so I sorted through some of my favorites and arranged them in lists based on level.
Festival Piece Selection and Resources
"Choice in the classroom has been linked to increases in student effort, task performances and subsequent learning." - Robert J Marzano
I allow my students to help select their festival pieces, but narrow down the playlists with strong suggestions for some pieces I think they will love and succeed at.
Multiple Choice Challenges
Bingo for Breaks
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