Crowd Control: Classroom Management and Effective Teaching for Chorus, Band, and Orchestra

by Susan L. Haugland

Crowd Control is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical 'how-to' guide shows teachers_pre-serviced or experienced_efficient ways to manage large performance-based classrooms. With wit and sage tried-and-true advice, Haugland provides a complete behavior plan as well as concrete ideas for addressing the National Standards, assessment, advocacy, and ensemble teambuilding. Accessible and indispensable, Crowd Control will become a vital resource in every music teacher's library.

Genres: Education, Music, Nonfiction, Teaching

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2007

Reviews

[Tyler]

Slightly dated on the standards info now, but overall lots of helpful ideas for planning and teaching a performance-based music classroom.

[Tristan]

This book is an invaluable resource for a beginning teacher.

Susan Haugland provides her class discipline plans and how she arrived at them. It's nice to finally find a book that says not only what motives and principles should be behind classroom management, but what an effective plan looks like.

In the appendix, she includes her chorus handbook and some rubrics. Nothing to be photo-copied and handed out, but a great resource to make sure you're not leaving anything out, or as a starting point for your own work.

[Annmarie]

So awesome. Just read this in two days.

[Rhea]

This book was really helpful. I like the examples that she gives and how she relates classroom management and team building with the students. Excellent ideas for interdisciplinary elements in assignments and concerts.

[Jordan Kinsey]

Every time I read a book like this, I value my undergraduate education even more. This book is amazing and has some GREAT tips...and I heard every single one of them in John Fannin's methods courses at MSU.

[Marisa Bergh]

As a young music teacher I felt that she gave a good classroom management plan that I can use easily.

She also talks about advocacy, assessments, projects, etc that can make your room about so much more than singing or playing instruments.

[Rachel L.]

This is a really helpful book for a new classroom music teacher. Lots of stuff to think about.