Making Music in Montessori

Infused with a warm, affable tone, Making Music in Montessori is the Guide’s guide to music education, providing Montessori teachers all at once a snappy, practical handbook, music theory mentor, pedagogical manual, and resource anthology. The book’s goal: To give teachers confidence in music, so that when their children walk away from a lesson all fired up to compose their own music, their teacher will know how to guide them. Before Making Music in Montessori, teachers may have only dreamed of a classroom buzzing with children working, learning, and growing with music alongside all of the other subject areas in the Montessori curriculum. Now, it’s a reality. If children’s minds are a fertile field, then Making Music in Montessori will stir Montessori teachers of all musical backgrounds to don their overalls, roll up their sleeves, sow the musical seeds, and watch them blossom under their children’s flaming imagination.

This wonderful new book from Michael Johnson is a much-needed addition to any Montessori environment! If you are a Montessori teacher eager to enhance the joy and learning of music in your classroom, this book is a must-read! A rare guidebook that presents music pedagogy in a Montessori context, Making Music in Montessori will give you the tools, resources, and just enough music theory to allow you to do just that, regardless of your background in music. Let the music begin!--Anne Sawyer & Karin Ann, Founders, The International Montessori School, Hong Kong, A precious resource for bringing music to life in the classroom from the fabulous material invented by Maria Montessori.--Association Montessori de France, An imaginative musician with the ability to open one's spirit to the musical experience that may be conveyed to children eager to sing, compose, experiment, move, and play an instrument, Mr. Johnson has written a book full of very accessible and exciting information for teachers whose children follow up on basic Montessori music training.--Benoit Dubuc, Director of Training, Centre Formation Montessori Francophone, France, At last, a useful music resource for my teachers! This book is a long time in coming.--Cathy Newman, Head of School, Sunstone Montessori School, Portland OR, USA, Michael's dedication to his craft shows in his joyful approach to sharing the pleasures of music with children of all ages. This is the Montessori music book teachers have been waiting for!--Pete Juds, Head of School, Montessori School of Tokyo, Japan

Michael Johnson, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, is a songwriter, musician, cartoonist, and a Kodàly-trained Montessori educator with ten years of international experience managing elementary classrooms. From his home base in Paris, France, buoyed by an AMI Elementary diploma, which he received from the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee, and an M.A. in Music Education from Portland State University, Michael travels and leads music-teaching workshops at Montessori schools around the world.