Repertoire, process, and which class got how far

Music Lesson Plan Template

A music plan that answers the two questions music teachers actually have: have I taught this class this song yet, and where did period three stop? A repertoire table marks each piece new or review, the standard box names the artistic process, the sequence runs warm-up, lesson, closing, and a class check-off at the foot records which homeroom got how far.

One plan, every class

Music lesson plan template

Portrait music lesson plan with standard and objective boxes, a four-row repertoire table with new-or-review column, three tall sequence boxes, a vocabulary box and a six-row class check-off table

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Music Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Standard and artistic process, a repertoire table marked new or review, warm-up, lesson and closing, vocabulary, and a class check-off so every homeroom gets the same lesson.

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Music Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the music template

Elementary music teachers see every class in the school once or twice a week, and the same plan is taught to a dozen groups across several days. A generic lesson plan has no place for that, which is why music teachers' own templates always end with a check-off grid. This sheet has one — class, date, got to, notes — and a repertoire table with a new-or-review column, because the most common music-room mistake is reteaching a song a class already knows or skipping one it never got.

The standards box asks for the artistic process — create, perform, respond, connect — because that is how the National Core Arts Standards and most state music standards are organized, and naming the process keeps a lesson from being all performing. Warm-up, lesson and closing are three tall boxes rather than a table because a music lesson is a flow, not a set of timed segments; the vocabulary box holds the terms the lesson should leave behind.

Questions teachers ask

Music lesson plans, answered

Does this work for band, choir and orchestra?

Yes; the repertoire table is the same for an ensemble, with the new-or-review column marking which pieces are in rehearsal and which are being read for the first time. Secondary ensemble directors generally use one sheet per rehearsal and skip the class check-off, since they see one group.

Where do I put the standard code?

In the standard box with the artistic process — a music standard is usually written as a process plus an anchor standard, such as Pr4 or Re7, and your state's code beside it. The lesson objective goes in its own box in students-will language.

How do I track more than six classes?

Print two sheets or add rows in Word or Google Docs; the check-off table is ordinary table text. Teachers with twenty-plus sections often keep the plan on one sheet and the check-off on a separate weekly grid.