Teachers and Staff Resources:  Music

See also: Class subject resources, Music; Online Subscription Databases

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators provides an incredible variety of material for classroom use covering too many topics to list!  Presented in a straight-forward, easy to use format you will find categorized lists of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Sponsored by the Discovery Channel.

 http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

MiddleSchool.Net is dedicated to helping middle school teachers and students integrate technology into their daily classroom activities. It is primarily a collection of links to internet resources in the following areas: Curriculum resources; Administrators and leaders; Support staff; Technology resources; Lesson plans & tutorials; Reference Materials; How to:Your personal and patient tutor; State and Foreign Educational standards; Professional development; Activities; Student test strategies and quizzes and more.

 http://www.middleschool.net/

Music Teachers National Association

http://www.mtna.org/

New York State Department of Education

  http://www.nysed.gov/

The OOPS website is both a Classroom Use and Professional Development website. It offers K-12 educators with Just-In-Time resources for the chaotic or "OOPS" moments of teaching. Here you will also find activities for students, such as I'm Done, Now What, and an online scavenger hunt for early finishers. The site has search options, Bloom's Taxonomy, and curriculum materials in most core subjects.

  http://oops.bizland.com/

PBS TeacherSource includes more than 1,000 free teaching guides, as well as professional development resources like PBS MATHLINE and SCIENCELINE.  Resources are organized into subject areas (Arts & Literature, Health & Vocation, Math, Science, TechKnow), and can be searched by subject, grade level and keyword, and are correlated to 46 sets of national and state educational standards. The site compliments the resources that PBS provides and helps teachers to incorporate video and the Web in the classroom.

  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/