by Melissa Stouffer | Sep 16, 2025 | All, Assessment, Back to School
One of the beginning of the year things that teachers need to think of is assessment. At the beginning of the year, there are a few reasons why you need to assess your students. Let’s take a look at why you want to assess, What to assess, and why you should...
by Melissa Stouffer | Oct 1, 2024 | All, Assessment, Music Games
Post Office is a fun game that is perfect for practicing decoding rhythms and patterns and even works as assessments. Take a look at how you play this fun game which is perfect for quick individual assessments! Set Up: Print pattern cards, cut, and place them all in...
by Melissa Stouffer | Oct 31, 2023 | All, Assessment, Music Games
Practicing rhythm and solfege concepts is a large part of the Kodaly process. This is a great game to see if students can read a rhythm or solfege and perform it correctly, to see if they are confident in the concept, and ready to move on. It makes a great assessment...
by Melissa Stouffer | Feb 8, 2022 | All, Assessment, Music Games
Back in 2011, I taught at a Montessori where one day a week I had grades 1-5 together for an hour. Not exactly an easy class to plan for. One day, the students came in and had obviously had “a day”. You know what I mean. They were begging to play a game...
by Melissa Stouffer | Nov 9, 2021 | All, Assessment, Guest Posts
Hi friends, This week I am elated to share my guest blogger, Mary Neeley Stevens. While I was doing some research about the Danielson Framework, I stumbled across a post from her that mentioned a presentation she did for TMEA in 2016. I am thrilled that she has agreed...
