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Jean destroys the sacred cows we carted off from college and opens her personal musical life to us. Complete with azny drawing, Taming the Anthill is good enough for coffee table reading, not to mention being a practical guide to success in the middle school general music classroom. A real boost for both novice and veteran teacher…. More >>
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#1 by Henry Mancini on April 28, 2010 - 9:14 am
Contrary to the writer of the only other review on this site, this book offers excellent detail and ideas on how to put Spanko’s ideas into practice. The ideas are fresh, practical, and help push the limits of our often underestimated students’ minds! Great Job!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Amazon usuario on April 28, 2010 - 9:35 am
This book was *highly* recommended to me by someone on the Internet, and while I enjoyed it, it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped.
One of the best things about it is the author’s conversational and humorous writing style. Also, I’ve been using one of the “extra credit” ideas for a required project that I think is a good one.
My main disappointment with this book is that it feels too much like what it is – a bunch of things that have been basically “pulled together” over the years by someone scrambling to get by. The activities are not as well thought-out as I would have liked. I guess I like teaching materials with a well thought-out, well-explained philosophy, where everything ties into that philosophy, and to some extent that is missing. I also would have liked some more specifics on how these ideas could be paced, put together into units, etc.
Rating: 4 / 5