Teaching orchestra in a public school requires many resources, activities, online apps, and much more! I have dedicated this page to make those resources available that I use to teach as well as the name/link for the apps that I use daily and find the most helpful! If any of the links/documents below do not work for you, please contact me and I can send them to you!

Apps

Here are the list of apps with links I use all the time:

Google Classroom

Google Flat

Google Keep

The G Suite for Education-

• Google Docs
• Google Sheets
  • Add-on for grading is Doctopus. It’s amazing!!
• Google Slides

Chalk Planboard

Magnet

Mimi Zweig String Pedagogy

Teaching Documents

Here are some resources I use when teaching:

Teaching Plan

This is what I use to plan out how I am going to teach a new piece of music.

Scales Worksheet

This is the sheet that I used to help the students remember their scales and see the patterns.

Key Signature Google Slide

This is what I use to help my students in the upper-grade levels understand key signatures. I noticed that students had a hard time understanding how exactly the sharp and flat symbol notate which line/space changes, so this presentation points that out.

Playing Quiz Rubric for 5th-6th Grade (ages 10-12)

This is a rubric that I use to grade my students when they play a quiz for me. Adding posture was a great decision because now it becomes a daily thought for these students.

Playing Quiz Rubric for 9th-12th Grade (ages 14-18)

This is the rubric I use to grade my older students with a playing quiz.

Violin Repertoire Sequence from Mimi Zweig

This is a violin repertoire document that Mimi Zweig provides on her String Pedagogy website. I use it for my private lesson students mainly, and any other students in the orchestra that like to work on individual repertoire.