Teaching Tips

Teaching Music and More (Fall 2023)

  • Keith Ozvath’s website includes useful articles focusing on integrating technology into band rehearsals at multiple levels. 

Great teachers in action! (Fall 2023)

Events include solo & ensemble, spring concerts, jazz band

Rehearsal ideas

Instructional tools & musical links

  • BandDirectorsTalkShop.com is a website available to educate and inspire band directors. It houses over 300 articles full of practical articles you can use today. Articles are written by respected music educators from around the United States. Learn. Share. Inspire.

Events: marching band, all region/state auditions

Rehearsal ideas

Instructional Tools:

  • PBM Mississippi Chapter “Young Band Director Project”
    These videos were sponsored by the Mississippi Chapter of Phi Beta Mu and produced and filmed by CA Video Productions.  These videos are designed for young directors or college students who are getting ready begin their student teaching experience.  The directors you see in these videos are some of the finest directors in our state who have volunteered to demonstrated methods and techniques they have developed throughout their years of teaching.

Foundations for Good Practice Habits
−by Dr. Christina Guenther

Musical Mastery for Band
−by Kathy Johnson & Asa Burk [Alpha members]
This method book is being used by band directors around Texas and neighbouring states and is also being used as the primary text for the wind instrument techniques classes for music education majors at the University of North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington, and University of the Incarnate Word.

Music Theory for Beginning Instrumentalists: A Scripted Curriculum
−a collaboration between Mary Ellen Cavitt [Alpha member] and Randallyn Kelso Holdford
Designed for beginning instrumentalists, this text provides work in music theory to supplement a beginner method book. It is available from J.W. Pepper and is published by RBC Publications.