Contributors: Kim Bain, Chip De Stefano, Rick Ghinelli, Corey Graves, Chris Grifa, Robert Herrings, Wendy Hart Higdon, Kazuhiko Tsuchiya, Heath Wolf.

Written by an all-star team of music educators with over two hundred years of combined experience and success, Foundations presents the fundamental elements necessary for building, maintaining, and growing a successful middle school band program. Topics covered include:
• Creating a culture of excellence
• Professional development and self-care
• Organizing your program and band room
• Teaching students how to practice
• Developing fundamental performance skills
• Recruitment
• Student motivation
• Communicating with the administration and school community
• Keeping things in perspective

The ideas in this book have been thoroughly researched, tested, revised, and, most importantly, are used in the authors own classrooms every day to achieve remarkable results. Guided by their skill and passion, the authors present actionable and practical advice that can be implemented in the classroom today and for years to come.

Publisher

GIA Publications

Binding

Softcover

Pages

208

ISBN

9781622776238

Stock code

G10596

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