Chorus Teacher Resources
Curriculum, worksheets, and more
Advocacy
- Community Action Kit from SupportMusic.com: A collection of documents that will help you advocate for a complete education that includes music instruction for every child.
- Essential Music Advocacy: A large collection of advocacy materials from The Selmer Company
- How to be a music and fine arts advocate from FMEA
- Music Advocacy Articles for Parents, Teachers, and Administrators from Children's Music Workshop
- Music is: An inspirational text that links music into all subject areas.
Articles
- December Dilemma: What should schools do about Christmas? from First Amendment Center
- Does music with a sacred text have a place in the public schools? from MENC
- How to Vocalize a Choir and Keep Vocal Health by David L. Jones
- Training the speaking voice through singing by Kenneth L. Sipley
- United States Copyright Law - A guide for music educators from MENC
- Vocal Training in Chorus by Robert Russell
- Want Boys in your Choir? Challenge them! by Stan Carlson
Classroom Aids
- Cheat Sheet: lines and spaces, keyboard, note & rest values
- Choir room seating chart
- First day student information card
- Major scales
- My vocal range chart with Cooksey's voice classification key
- Solfege Hand Signs: Diatonic | Chromatic
- Staff paper @ www.blanksheetmusic.net
Classroom Management / Discipline
- DisciplineHelp.com: a reference for handling over 117 misbehaviors at school and home
- Take home detentions: Eating/Drinking, Disruptions, Late, Respect
Clinic / Workshop Handouts
- Choral Adjudication: A positive experience for the choral director by Mark Scott and Dale Choate
- Pacing in the choral rehearsal by Judy Bowers
- Recruiting: What Works for Me by Sandy Hinkley
- Success with adolescent singers by Al Holcomb
- What teaching boys has taught me by Ken Berg
Concert Programs
- Template #1 in MS Word
- Template #2 in MS Word
- Template #3 in MS Publisher
- Template #4 in MS Word
- Template #5 in MS Word
Curriculum
- Choral Curriculum for Orange County Public Schools, Florida
- Sequential 6-8 chorus curriculum
- Sequential 6-8 sight singing curriculum
- National Music Voluntary Standards: K-12 and PreK from MENC
- Sunshine State Standards: Music 6-8
- Sunshine State Standards: Music 9-12
Field Trips
- Festival / MPA
Handbooks
- Cypress Lake High School Center for the Arts 0405
- Diplomat Middle School 0708
- Kingwood High School Choir 0405
- Handbook confirmation page: Parent and student signatures
- Handbook agreement form
Lesson Plans
- Chorus lesson plan template #1 by Jessica Jones
- Chorus lesson plan template #2 for Orange County Public Schools, Florida
- Ice breaker ideas
- Music staff review game
- Music basketball
Miscellaneous
- Concert etiquette from MENC
- Encouraging your child to produce a healthy voice fact sheet from the Institute of Child Health
- Hear the Choirs Sing: a web directory of sites that offer choral music clips in various formats
- On song, out of tune: a great article that can't seem to be found anywhere else online anymore
- SuperScope Recording FAQ: This answers some questions not covered in the product manual.
New Teacher Guides
- New beginnings by Elaine McNamara
- New teachers guide by Scott Evans
Reading and music
- Making the connection between music and reading by Sandy Hinkley
- Parallel strategies for music and text by Sandy Hinkley
Repertoire
- ChoralNet's repertoire pages
- MS changing voice / boys chorus literature by Stan Carlson
- MS Tried and True by Keitha Bledsoe and Nancy DeCoux; all voicings
Sight Singing & Ear Training
- FREE sight singing exercises by Jussi Doherty
- Big Ears: free online ear trainer
- Good-Ear.com: another free online ear trainer
- Sequential 6-8 sight singing curriculum
- Tips on teaching sight reading
Worksheets
- Chorus Assignments
- Chorus exam for middle school
- Concert evaluation
- Concert makeup assignments: 01, 02, 03
- Dictation Quiz
- Listening journal
- Participation rubric Updated!
- Rehearsal reflection log
- Solo singing assignment
- Movies
- Amadeus
- Bach's Fight for Freedom
- Beethoven Lives Upstairs
- Finding Nemo
- Handel's Last Chance
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Les Choristes Study Guide
- Les Miserables
- Mr. Holland's Opus
- My Fair Lady: Music synopsis, study guide, and test
- Pirates of Penzance
- Sister Act
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Sound of Music: Music synopsis, study guide, and test
- Story Map: A worksheet to use with ANY movie
- West Side Story: study guide
- Solfege / Composition
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