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	<title>The Music Teachers Blog &#187; Music Teaching</title>
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		<title>Help Schools and Teachers get the funding they need!</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/09/help-schools-and-teachers-get-the-funding-they-need/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/09/help-schools-and-teachers-get-the-funding-they-need/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Advocacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[music lesson promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I’ve got something very special to share with you. It’s a unique opportunity to help music education in schools (even in your own school!) and it isn’t going to cost you a cent! Every year we do a special promotion to help us build the number of people who are following our facebook page. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Students Engaged in Music Lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/06/keeping-students-engaged-in-music-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/06/keeping-students-engaged-in-music-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just found  a very nice  article written by a talented K-8 music teacher, Monica Attel who shares some of here her best tips and tricks with teaching young children. In the article, she suggests that wearing hats works for her, because it&#8217;s a way of providing a gimmick or a comic theme (referred to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive Whiteboards for Music Teaching &#8211; What the current situation is.</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/06/interactive-whiteboards-for-music-teaching-what-the-current-situation-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/06/interactive-whiteboards-for-music-teaching-what-the-current-situation-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun Music Company Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive Music Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive whiteboards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Active Inspire]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/?p=1038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Do you teach with an interactive whiteboard? Do you enjoy using an interactive whiteboard in the music classroom? What would be your ideal method of use on an interactive whiteboard in the music classroom? At The Fun Music Company, we are curious about all these questions and more! For the past five years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Music Advocacy Documentaries</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/06/two-new-music-advocacy-documentaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/06/two-new-music-advocacy-documentaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Samples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Advocacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustavo Dudamel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m always on the lookout for great music advocacy video’s and today, I’ve just found two new ones- just in time to watch over the US Summer break! Here are the trailers of them both. Gustovo Dudamel is always an inspiration to me with his conducting skill combined with his passion for music.This man appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Musical Kids = Smart Kids?</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/05/do-musical-kids-smart-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/05/do-musical-kids-smart-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music teaching success stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do music teachers imagine that musical kids are smarter or is it real? Here is a link to an interesting blog by which refers to some great you tube videos, researchers and in the blog, she challenges you to prove her wrong! The article is called : Music Makes Kids Smarter- Prove Me Wrong and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessments &#8211; What we added to Printable Music Lesson Plans&#8230;.. And WHY!</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/05/assessments-what-we-added-to-printable-music-lesson-plans-and-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2011/05/assessments-what-we-added-to-printable-music-lesson-plans-and-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[examinations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instruments Of The Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz and Blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music lesson plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not a big fan of assessments. However, I understand that they are a necessary part of teaching for most schools. Unless you are in a Montessori or alternative learning environment assessments are a necessary and indispensable part of what we do as teachers. At the Fun Music Company we operate on two very simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Printable Music Theory Book Results are In!</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/10/the-results-are-in-what-our-customers-are-looking-for-in-printable-music-theory-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/10/the-results-are-in-what-our-customers-are-looking-for-in-printable-music-theory-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fun Music Company Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music teacher resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory Books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/?p=819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Fun Music Company we need to say a big THANKYOU to everyone who has responded to our requests for feedback over the last month. We started with last months Ezine, where we gave an opportunity for anyone who is on our mailing list to give us feedback about what we are doing, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resources for Teaching Music Composition</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/05/resources-for-teaching-music-composition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/05/resources-for-teaching-music-composition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 10:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesson ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mus Ed Chat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music lesson plans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Composing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Music Education Twitter Chat,which took place on April 20th, 2010 EST the question of &#8220;What the Most Important Topics to Teach in the Music Classroom&#8221; were discussed. I was surprised to find out that many music teachers who participated in the chat thought music composition was not taught enough in schools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resource Materials for teaching about the Instruments Of The Orchestra</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/03/resources-materials-for-teaching-about-the-instruments-of-the-orchestra-in-music-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/03/resources-materials-for-teaching-about-the-instruments-of-the-orchestra-in-music-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few ideas for teaching about the Instruments of the Orchestra. I do hope you find the ideas useful and feel free to provide some feedback using the comment box below. Instrument Four Corners Game For this game you will need four posters which represent the strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion instrument families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Lessons for a Substitute Music Teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/03/music-lessons-for-a-substitute-music-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/03/music-lessons-for-a-substitute-music-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[music lesson plans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its here! Last year we ran a competition, where we asked members on our mailing list to submit ideas for our ebook competition. In this competition we asked the question: &#8220;What is the single best idea you can give a substitute music teacher, or that you can use yourself when substituting for someone else&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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