A free guide for elementary music teachers
The 8 mistakes nearly every music teacher makes
And how to fix them — from your first day in the classroom to your hundredth.
By Deborah Skydell Pasternack · Co-Founder of The Singing Classroom
Do any of these sound familiar?
If you've ever caught yourself doing one of these, you're in good company — I've done all of them. The guide has the fix for each.
- You keep teaching a song even though, honestly, you don't love it.
- A kid says "this is boring" and it ruins your whole afternoon.
- The class walks in talking and you never quite get them back.
- You run out of time, or the lesson falls flat, and you're not sure why.
- The transition between two activities turns into chaos.
Those are five of the eight. Each one has a fix that took me years to figure out — and I've put all of them in the free guide.
These come from Deborah Skydell Pasternack, a Kodály-certified music teacher with 25 years in the classroom and the co-founder of The Singing Classroom.
She has made all these mistakes herself — and more.
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