The Set Up
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Music ConstructED Online Learning
Set up your music room for success with practical strategies for space, materials, bulletin boards, and building relationships.
Setting up your Music Room — Course 1 of 5
Practical Strategies for Optimizing Your Music Room
Free | 30 min
Course Overview
The Set-Up is the first course in the five-part Lessons from the Music Room series, a professional development collection built around veteran music teacher Cheryl Baker's classroom-tested guide for music educators. This course focuses on the foundational decisions that shape a successful year: how to arrange your classroom and manage traffic flow, how to organize materials so they're findable and manageable for both you and your students, how to design bulletin boards with real purpose, and how to build the relationships with school staff that make your day-to-day teaching easier. Drawing on Cheryl's experience teaching in a wide range of classroom types — from shared spaces to stages to modular rooms — this course offers practical, adaptable strategies rather than a one-size-fits-all template. You'll walk away with a reusable framework of guiding questions for organizing materials and planning bulletin boards, along with a companion worksheet you can return to throughout the school year.
Part of the Lessons from the Music Room Series
This course is part of Lessons from the Music Room, a five-course series covering everything from initial classroom set-up to lesson planning, classroom management, and best practices for elementary music. Each course builds on the practical, real-world approach found in Cheryl Baker's book and can be taken individually or as part of the full series.
Cheryl Baker | Music ConstructED Team | Powered by West Music
Here is the class outline:
Lessons from the Music Room: Course 1 - The Set UpThis course covers the foundational work of setting up a successful music classroom — the practical, often-overlooked decisions that shape how smoothly the rest of the year runs. Learners work through four core areas: arranging classroom space and traffic flow, organizing materials so students can find and return them independently, designing bulletin boards with clear purpose, and building relationships with the colleagues and staff who support a music teacher's day-to-day success, all built around presenter Cheryl Baker's real classroom experience and a consistent guiding-questions-then-examples structure, with a downloadable planning worksheet learners can return to throughout the school year. 12 sections
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Completion
The following certificates are awarded when the class is completed:
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Music ConstructED 30-minute PD Certificate of Completion |