I first came across the concept of centres or stations a few years ago when I was doing some classroom release for a leading teacher. The activities she had left for me were part of a whole-year-level Literacy Rotation. This involved grouping together various students by ability and allowing them to rotate around different activities related to literacy such as a worksheet practising suffixes, a creative writing task or a reading comprehension activity aided by the teacher. A

Feedback in the classroom is one of the most important aspects of our teaching practice. Click on the video below for a detailed description of the Thinking Thumbs system that I utilise with my students to give and receive feedback in a quick and visual way that my kids respond really well to! What feedback tools do you use in the classroom? Drop us a line at jenny@kodalycrafts.com with your favourite feedback forms, or you can comment here on the site. #Feedback #Classroomma

I'm sure that, unless your ears are lactose intolerant, you are familiar with the chant that goes: This chant is a well-known one, but an activity that goes with it comes from the incomparable Lucinda Geoghegan, director of NYCoS and all-round Kodaly games wizard. You can check out her publications of wonderful games here. The activity is a kind of rhythm-passing game where all students stand in a circle and must say the chant one syllable per person. If a person speaks out o

As the school year has wrapped up and the craziness of report-writing season has died down, I am left thinking about assessment and the constant juggling act we teachers seem to perform between our own needs to assess our students' learning, the needs of our school/district/state system to implement its own assessment guidelines and the needs of our students to be engaged and enjoy their music lessons. As such, I am always on the lookout for assessment tasks that double as a