Performances Without the Panic: Preparing Concerts While Protecting Instructional Time

Elementary Music Specialists are often tasked with creating performance opportunities for their communities that wow and amaze everyone involved. Too often, these educators feel they have to sacrifice instructional time to focus on boxed musicals and performance pieces. In this session, I will show how to prepare students for a performance without losing instructional time. 

Applicable from kindergarten and up, I will share how I select a theme and use backwards design planning to create engaging performances that include singing, instruments and movements without using weeks of class solely focused on concert songs. Participants will come away from the session with ready to go performance possibilities with varied themes, resources to select songs and the process to create their own performance plan without losing instructional time.