2026 Maine Music Educators Association Conference

Calling all early career music teachers who are in their first five years of teaching! Come get the support and resources you need as you continue to navigate your early years in the profession! Working collaboratively with each other, you will work with your peers through tried-and-true strategies as you apply them to your own teaching situation and students. Come engage in "challenge by choice" as you choose which area(s) of your teaching you wish to create an action plan for so that you can improve your skills in the classroom. Specific areas that this workshop addresses includes classroom management, student engagement, time management skills, lesson planning, adapting to meet the needs of students and teacher assessment. By the end of this workshop, beginning teachers will have developed a plan for immediate actionable steps that they use in their classroom, along with a Google drive of resources that will support their work and goals moving forward.