Erin Emery-Dumas

Continuing my series of reviewing old papers I wrote in college, I’d like to review my essay titled “Urban Music Education.” You can read the original work below. Reviewing this work is going to be a bit different than others because of the fact that I currently work in a suburban school district, rather than…

As someone who believes that it’s incredibly important to teach topics that are cross-curricular, I try to incorporate other subjects in my lessons as often as possible. Something I am especially interested in recently is including writing samples to support their growth in ELA. After monitoring a standardized test, I realized just how difficult it…

If you have explored my page titled “Projects & Presentations,” you have probably seen the wide array of things I worked on in college at Western Michigan University, as well as a few things I created after graduating. I thought it would be fun to review papers that I have written now that I’ve had…

Our 2nd and 3rd grade concert is only two days away! A lot of work has gone into it, and I’m sure some of you are wondering what all has to happen before a concert begins. A Year Prior I had to schedule both this concert and the one we had in December waaaaay back…

My second and third grade students have been preparing for nearly two months to perform in our spring concert titled “Sing for Peace.” It is inspired by Earth Day and has themes of nature, recycling, peace, and so much more. All of our songs for this concert came from MusicPlayOnline, many from their “One Planet”…

Welcome to my new website. I will be using this site as an ever-updating portfolio to share my growth in music education. As I begin to build this blog, I will share things from my time at Western Michigan University, student teaching, and current lessons and projects. If you’d like to follow along, please subscribe…