"MLT Any Music Teacher Can Du...De" breaks down Gordon's Music Learning Theory into simple, easy to understand language and manageable chunks. No Ph.D. required!
This book is a companion to
The Literate Musician: How to Hear, Think, Speak, Read and Write the Language of Music
, and is divided into 3 parts:
Part I: The Theory of Music Learning Theory
Part II: The Practical Applications of Music Learning Theory
Part III: Curriculum Development (a Sample 10 unit MLT Curriculum)
This useful tool for any music teacher K-100 contains the following highlights:
Pattern Taxonomies in Duple, Triple, Major and Minor
Musicianship Ideas
Whole-Part-Wholes
Ideas for making Learning Sequence Activities practical
Many charts for sequencing objectives
Maintaining and establishing an Audiation Foundation
Dozens of songs in many tonalities and meters with teaching ideas
Many ideas for how to incorporate Bucket Drums and ukulele!
"Can Do" Objectives at each skill level
Connect your songs and instrumental activities to the musicianship objectives in LSAs
Fun games with parachutes, scarves, bean bags and puppets
In addition, the book contains a ★
257 page Digital Appendix★
with links to YouTube video lessons (!), reproducibles, truncated student lessons, Keyboard Cheat Sheet, Tonality Cheat Sheet, Rhythm Cheat Sheet, writing sheets, and all Reading Benchmarks from the student edition.