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		<title>Music Classroom Wish List</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/02/music-classroom-wish-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesson ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the most effective $$$’s you’ve ever spent in your music classroom? Perhaps it was what everyone seems to have on their mind at the moment- technology! An iPad or an interactive whiteboard or maybe it was a set of xylophones that your students can now play every day,  a drum kit, a keyboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extra Value Added To Packages for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/extra-value-added-to-packages-for-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/extra-value-added-to-packages-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun Music Company Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music lesson promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music teacher resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every day, we have music teachers contact us about how to get hold of more teaching resources for less. At the Fun Music Company, we are very keen to ensure that the more you purchase with each order- the more value you should receive and the more you should save. I’ve just put this article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Keep Your Class Totally Engaged in Music</title>
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		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/five-ways-to-keep-your-class-totally-engaged-in-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/?p=1287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What was your first experience of music? Was it dancing in the kitchen? Listening to a parent sing along to the radio? Or perhaps, pounding the piano keys with your sister or brother? &#160; As educators, we aspire to re-create the experience that made us want to learn more about music. At their most fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iBook 2: How Does this Affect The Music Teacher?</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/ibook-2-how-does-this-affect-the-music-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/ibook-2-how-does-this-affect-the-music-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There is no reason today to assume that our kids have to use the same tools they did back in 1950 &#8211; Infact to do so is to prepare them for a world that has already past” This was a quote taken from some of the marketing video streamed last week, in Apple’s latest presentation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Percussion to Primary School Children</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/introducing-percussion-to-primary-school-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/introducing-percussion-to-primary-school-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesson ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Resources for young children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elementary music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elementary Music Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary percussion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The value of movement in connection with learning is unparalleled in our elementary and primary classrooms. In cultures around the world, exploration through percussion is a natural way of connecting children to the group and developing their motor responses. Movement through music, furthermore, helps stimulate the brain and integrate the right and left hemispheres After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secrets to Creating a Successful Music Theory Curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesson ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music teaching guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Teaching Help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music theory articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music theory Curriculum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Research shows a positive connection between teachers’ preparation in their subject matter and their performance and impact in the classroom” . I read this recently in a US study about teacher preparation research(1) and I’m sure that it’s no surprise to any of us that the more prepared a teacher is in their specific subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Musical Intelligence”: Applying Howard Gardner’s Theory to Music Education</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/%e2%80%9cmusical-intelligence%e2%80%9d-applying-howard-gardner%e2%80%99s-theory-to-music-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/%e2%80%9cmusical-intelligence%e2%80%9d-applying-howard-gardner%e2%80%99s-theory-to-music-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Education Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books music education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Gardners Theory and Music Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been almost thirty years since Howard Gardner published his landmark work, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gardner transformed the educational community in the United States and around the world with his theory, which identified seven different human capacities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashcard Update: 96 New Cards Added</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/a-new-flashcard-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2012/01/a-new-flashcard-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun Music Company Announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are always constantly striving to make each of our resources at the Fun Music Company as relevant and useful as possible and this month we&#8217;ve added 96 new cards to the Ultimate Flashcard System. All these new printable flashcards are based on Intervals and we have attempted to cover all common intervals that your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Useful iPhone and iPad Apps for Music Teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/12/10-useful-iphone-and-ipad-apps-for-music-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/12/10-useful-iphone-and-ipad-apps-for-music-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for Fun!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone apps for the music teacher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[iPhone and iPad apps are extraordinary music tools, whether you want to teach music theory, introduce an instrument, encourage students who are interested in composition, or simply inspire some fun improvisation in your classes. Apps range from very sophisticated (“WI Orchestra,” for example, provides a full orchestral library and compositional tool for professional musicians), to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Revisions For Printable Music Lesson Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/12/new-revisions-for-printable-music-lesson-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/12/new-revisions-for-printable-music-lesson-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually our best revision and ideas come from the teachers who are using our resources in the classroom day in day out- Teachers just like you!  This latest revsion is for the set of Claude Debussy resources in the Great Composers -Printable Music Lesson Plans Series. We&#8217;ve just changed the Claude Debussy Fun Sheet to [...]]]></description>
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