#teachingtip

[stonebridgeacademy]

“If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, They cannot learn from you” - Lori Petro

[thevirtualbell]

⠀ Students with learning disabilities often have a hard time in class and struggle to understand and or keep up. By creating some of the lessons geared towards allowing them to succeed, this will allow them to celebrate their accomplishments. This will also help to boost their confidence in themselves, letting them know that can succeed and motivate them to work harder to feel that sense of accomplishment again. What are some of the ways you motivate your children? Like this post and follow @thevirtualbell for more! ⠀ ⠀ ■ ⠀ ■ ⠀ ■ ⠀ ⠀ #Learning #learningdisabilities #teachingtip #motivation #teachingideas #teachingspecialthinkers #iteachfirst #Iteachtoo #iteachk #teachers #teachersofinstagram #cota #ot #teacherstyle #motivatesuccess #thevirtualbell #learningdifficulity #dyslexia #autism #adhd #autismawarness #virtuallearning #virtual #elementaryteacher #elementarytherapist #elementaryteachers #learningisfun #learningathome #learningeveryday #blogger (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ4Phe4s215/?igshid=1o81g8lrd9ayc

[roorecordsmusic]

#creativepact Day 4 - Scales!

Well - after crashing no less then 3 times - lets see if this blog post will go up this time!

Scales, scales, scales. The bane of many students lives.

Personally I quite like scales - you just whiz up and down and boom - job done. But I know a lot of students find it difficult to remember what each scale has in it, but a lot of the time they don't remember just because they don't practise them.

If you don't try then you won’t succeed!

Here’s some top tips for #scale #success:

1. Try our alto sax book with backing CD - you can buy a copy here and hear a sample of one of the tracks here  Other instruments will be coming soon!

2. Play some piano chords under their long held notes as they go up the scale to make a smooth and floaty sounding piece.

3. Get them to improvise a new funky rhythm on each note of the scale - you could turn it into a call and response game

4. Put the scales they’re working on into a hat and let them pick out the scales

5. Add different articulation

6. If remembering the sharps and flats - you could add a rhyme or saying for each scale - So F is - Fat Birds (F major, B flat) or G major - Good Fish (G major, F sharp)

I hope some of these help! #teachertip

Other composing / creative work has been working again on the school ensemble piece. The tortoise is proving slow to finish - but I guess there should be no surprise there!