Are you looking for free online resources for teaching math? Do you want to find the best mathematics apps for students so they can learn math online without board? Are you looking for effective ways to teach mathematics teachers can incorporate it into their teaching program using only the best teaching practices?
This guide is for you!
Smart Music
Smart Music is a responsive music reading and accompaniment software. During the current crisis, they’re offering the program for free until June 30th.
Smart Music is one of the better music programs out there for older students, especially instrumental band and orchestra students.
It’s one of the best interactive music websites for middle school and high school.
Once the program is downloaded onto a student’s device, they can pull up a score they were assigned by the teacher.
Then, they can play along with the score and its accompaniment. Smart Music will wait for the student at key places and even highlight where mistakes were made.
Teachers can access the student’s playing and offer specific feedback as well.
Teachers have the ability to create scores and exercises for their students. But one great feature is how some method books are preloaded to the program.
Teachers won’t have to input everything; they just need to find it and select it.
Music Play Online
Music Play Online is an interactive music website for elementary school. This program was created by Denise Gagne, an elementary music expert, and has a free trial available for teachers to use with students.
I enjoy this program a lot because it uses authentic and quality song materials. It’s also sequentially driven for optimal instruction.
My kids love it because it’s fun and has some online music games for kids. This is more useful as a resource to ask kids to check out rather than a platform for delivering instruction itself.
However, everything about this is engaging and intentional for music instruction.
Chrome Music Lab
Chrome Music Lab is a browser-based sound program kids love to play with. It’s almost as if it’s an online music education game or something.
Providing this resource to students will help them feel like they’re a music producer as they put loops and tracks together to create new sounds.
This is more explorative rather than direct instruction, but older students will be able to create really cool end-products with this easy-to-use program.
Prodigies Music
Prodigies Music is an elementary (even Pre-K) based interactive music website. They have a ton of fun videos and resources for online learning to supplement your instruction.
Though the program is paid, they offer many of their video lessons online for free on their YouTube channel.
This is perfect for connecting your youngest learners with positive music experience without having a huge technology barrier.
Loom
Loom is a program designed to record videos, specifically while also capturing your computer screen.
Loom has free and paid versions, but teachers are able to upgrade for free during this time of crisis.
It works right from a Chrome extension or on their website. Click the record button, and it will take a video in one of three ways:
- Your screen with a video of you in a small circle
- Just your screen with you talking
- Just you, no screen
My favorite part about this program comes when you end your recording. The video is hosted on their website and is shareable via a link.
You don’t have to upload the video to YouTube or anything. It’s automatically up!
Just copy the link and send it to your students, and they can instantly watch your video.
I’ve used this already to create instructional videos for my students to log into other programs or to just post videos of me providing direct instruction.
Carnegie Hall: Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra
This isn’t a learning platform, but Carnegie Hall’s Guide is an excellent video and interactive series of lessons on the different instrument families.
It’s based on the legendary and popular program of the same name.
I already use this in my classroom, but it works equally well with online learning.
Nearpod
Nearpod is a simpler version of Google Classroom that only handles assignments on a one-time basis.
It works with any device able to connect to the internet. I’ve used this a lot in my classroom for delivering assessments in an engaging way.
I’ve also used this to help students follow along and answer questions at key points during videos.
All you need to do is create a simple lesson or quiz on the website. Then, you open the lesson and share a code with your students.
From any device, they input the code and add their name. You’ll be able to see their progress and collect data.
Music Tutors
Over 800 other UK tutors and 10,000 students use this site – all for music lessons, as opposed to generic tutoring platforms for all subjects. This will make you a small fish in a big pool. There’s lots of competition from other tutors, but lots of students on the site too, all wanting to learn music. You must fill in an application form to be considered and have a related degree or significant industry experience.
The site has a choice of set class fees you can choose from and payment is automatic via E-PAY – students can take advantage of a 50% off trial class. Students pay a platform fee, in addition to your tutor fee.
Tutorful
Covering over 300 subjects, Tutorful allows you to teach as little or often as you wish, at whatever price. Setting up a profile is free, so you have nothing to lose, provided your application is accepted. The platform takes a commission of between 20% (once you’ve taught 250 hours) and 25% (up to 250 hours taught) of the lesson cost.
Be sure to set your rate taking this into account and Tutorful can help advise what this should be if you’re unsure. You can find students passively – via your profile, or proactively – by checking the platform’s job board. This is a particularly useful site if you want to teach other subjects too, as it’s not music-specific.
Superprof
Over 1500 people teach music on Superprof, with more than 11,000000 tutors overall in 22 countries across nine languages. It’s great if you need fast, easy, free access to a platform. There’s no delay while applications and processed, in fact, setting up takes less than 10 minutes.
Buying a Professional Pass will give your ads are higher visibility for one month at a rate of £9 or for one year at a rate of £69. Students pay a monthly fee for access to the site and while there’s no commission, neither does Superprof handle your payments. So it really is just an online teaching advertising platform.
Once you’ve delivered some sessions, you can send students a review/recommendation link. Testimonials will help you gain more work.
Your Space Music Lessons
This is slightly unusual, as to gain access and use the platform, you must bring 30 students with you. As such it suits those who wish to take their current face to face teaching online – or transfer from one platform to another. It’s a Scottish based group and is much smaller than the other sites we’ve mentioned, so is more personal and a kind of cooperative. This makes you a big fish in a smaller pool than most of the other sites.
My Tutor
Only one in seven applicants make the grade here. You’ll need to be a graduate or student at one of their accepted universities and be teaching in accordance with the UK syllabus. At the time of writing the site is full in terms of tutors, but that’s an ever-changing situation, so keep checking.
Skype
This is the original platform for video calling and is still a fantastic option, especially for those who want to retain full control and autonomy. It has great features and hardly any limitations.
Video calls are subject to a fair usage limit of 100 hours per month with no more than 10 hours per day and a limit of 4 hours per individual video call, but with most lessons lasting a maximum of one hour, this should be far more than you’ll ever need. As there are no fees for using the service at this level it’s arguably the best option financially.
The big downside though is that you have to arrange payments separately, rather than via an integrated platform payment collection. You can get around this by using an official online invoicing service, such as PayPal. There’s no application process or requirements to start. You just need a computer with inbuilt mic and camera and a good internet connection.
Zoom
Zoom operates much like Skype and offers screen sharing, which is especially useful (perhaps necessary) if you plan on including music theory and sheet music in your sessions. But it’s main drawback is a 40 minute limit on calls. You can access longer call times, but you’ll need to sign up for a pro account at a fee.
Using an online music learning platform
If you offer face to face tuition and are looking to simply advertise online, rather than run classes over the web, there are different sites to consider using including Music Teachers.
These websites provide links to teachers across the country, so students can search in a geographical area and check out who is offering tutoring near them.
If you decide to use Skype or Zoom it’s well worth setting up your own teaching website. This way you can process online payments, advertise, offer packages, make videos and post testimonials. Because whichever platform you end up using, letting prospective students know who you are and what you can do, is the most important way to get work. And there’s nothing to stop you signing up to all the platforms we’ve mentioned.
It really depends on how often you want to teach and how much time you’d like to invest in it.
Related Questions
- How do I find music students?
You find students by letting people know what you’re offering and networking, both digitally and i person. Advertise via your social media. Create a website and link to it. Post on local Facebook music groups and sites. Spread the word that you’re offering lessons. Join a tutoring site and create a profile.
- How do I find a good singing teacher?
Ask people you know who are good singers themselves. Word of mouth is always a great way to find a teacher. Do a google search and read reviews and testimonials. Ask if your local recording studio offers vocal coaching or can recommend anyone. Take a look at online tutoring sites and see who has great credentials.
- How can I learn music at home?
You can either take one to one lessons where a teacher visits your house or teaches via a video link. If you don’t have the budget for coaching, don’t worry, you can learn to sing without lessons. There are tons of fantastic instructional videos on YouTube, for everyone including brand new beginners and experienced musicians.
Are you a tutor? What have you found to be the best teaching platform for online singing or music lessons? Let us know about your experiences in the comments below.
Conclusion
Online resources have been a great time saver for teachers of mathematics. There are many apps that math teachers can use to simplify the process of teaching math online. It’s highly recommended that you check out these online resources before even considering using a traditional classroom because it could help you save both time and money in the long run. you can start from here!