Chorus Teacher
Resources

 

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Jussi Doherty

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
• Chaperone expectations letter
• Chaperone letter
• Student letter and permission slip #1
• Student letter and permission slip #2
• Student letter and permission slip #3
• Student letter and permission slip #4

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
• 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

• 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
• Write in the solfege syllables
• You are the composer

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