Music Workshop’s free classroom curriculum is available to all K-8 teachers via our online portal. Create an account, choose a course, and you’re ready to start teaching. The hardest part is choosing which topic to teach first!
Music Workshop programming comes in five categories: musical genres, instruments, music from cultures around the world, careers in music, and Soundwaves. Teachers can download everything they need to teach a course from the Music Workshop portal, and materials are customized for grade levels K-2, 3-5 and 6-8. These courses are designed to stand on their own or be grouped together. So, they can be taught in any order and are easy to incorporate into an existing curriculum.
Each Music Workshop course is around 50 minutes long and combines video, teacher-led question and answer sessions, an active listening exercise, and a movement activity. By integrating music learning with reading, physical activity, active listening, and critical thinking, we not only engage and connect students but also show them how music can play a significant role in their everyday lives.
Here’s a peek at how teaching a Music Workshop course looks in a grade 3-5 classroom.
Here’s what a few of our teachers say about using Music Workshop in their classrooms.
We partner with a diverse network of advisors to create well-rounded courses packed with all the resources educators need to bring music to their classroom in a respectful and culturally appropriate way. Our program advisors bring deep knowledge of the cultures and musical traditions represented in Music Workshop programming, as well as their own talents and lived experiences. They also help us continually update our programs over time to keep them relevant as cultural lenses evolve.
Here’s a preview of our course on Latin American and Caribbean Music and musical traditions.
Bring the concert experience into your classroom! Music Workshop’s youth concert series, Soundwaves, is now available alongside other free programming in our teacher portal. Students can experience concerts from artists like the Playing for Change Band and Ron Artis II, which include conversations with the musicians about the connection between music and life.
Music Workshop courses are developed to align with national standards for music and humanities education and to promote cross-curricular learning for students in grades K-8. We provide documentation detailing how each course addresses standards requirements for music, social studies, and English language arts in each grade band.
Let’s work together to inspire students to enrich their lives with music.