Music for Teens
Lesley Schultz
Recent Episodes
When asked to revise and restart a course that hadn't been offered for the better part of a decade at my school, I took it as an opportunity to diversify the topics addressed in a music history course. Using Ethan Hein's blog post on Teaching Whiteness in Music Class, I took a real reflective look at the barriers of music history and how it is not all about the Beethoven, Bach and Brahms.
I also address how to talk about the hard topics of past and current racism and classism in the music industry with students.
Strategies are also given on how to implement student choice in assignments, and make assignments that your students will actually want to complete.
After a longer than expected hiatus, Music for Teenagers returns with how what you learned about teaching methods in an elementary general music class, might not apply to teaching music to teenagers. The 2015 American Psychological Association paper "The Top 20 Principals for Pk-12 Teaching and Learning". is referenced heavily, and how changes in the teenage brain make teens both more fascinated with music, and less likely to be creative with it.
I also talk about overcoming knowledge and experiences students may bring to the classroom through relationship building, and logical examples.