How Children Succeed - Reading Together

Welcome to the newest Reading Together series. I'll be posting a summary about our reading each week on Tuesdays. Come join us!

We'll be reading How Children Succeed by Paul Tough. You can get a copy from your local library, or pick up a copy from Amazon.

We'll be reading one chapter per week.
I'll post about the first installment on Tuesday, November 22. That means you have three weeks to get a copy of the book and to read the first chapter.

The great thing about this program is that it allows us to read works together that can help us in our professional development as well as providing a level of accountability and the added interest of comparing notes as we read together.

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Sheet Music - Drunken Sailor

Drunken Sailor is a simple arrangement of the traditional Irish tune in D minor designed for the elementary piano student. It is set in 2/4 time. The melody is in the right hand and the left hand forms a simple accompaniment.

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Reading Together - How to Teach - Measuring the Achievements of Children

Most of what this chapter covered doesn't really apply to music classes or private lessons. So, instead, I thought I would pull together some resources on measuring progress in your music students.

How to Measure Your Progress

Measure Your Progress with this Piano Practice Schedule

Assessment in Music Education

Assessment Tools for the Elementary Music Classroom

Assessment Resources from Carnegie Hall

Formal and Informal Assessment in the Music Classroom


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Reading Together - How to Teach - How To Study

"Study is controlled mental activity working towards the realization of a goal." (page 159, Kindle Edition)

"Study requires a certain critical attitude, a checking up of results against the problem set. In order to be efficient in study a child should know when he has reached the solution, when the means have been adapted to the end, when he has reached the goal." (page 162, Kindle Edition)

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Reading Together - How to Teach - Types of Classroom Exercises

"The skill of the teacher depends upon his knowledge of the previous experiences of the children in the class and his skill in having them word the problem which remains unsolved in their experience in such a way as to make it attractive to them." (page 146, Kindle Edition)

"Psychologically a question is valuable not only in accordance with the kind of response it gets, but also in proportion to the readiness of the response." (page 155, Kindle Edition)

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