Strategies, Tips & Activities for the Effective Band Director: Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension is a resourceful collection of highly effective teaching strategies, solutions, and activities for band directors. Chapters are aligned to cover common topics, presenting several practical lesson ideas for each topic. In most cases, each pedagogical suggestion is supported by excerpts from standard concert band literature. Topics covered include: score study shortcuts; curriculum development; percussion section management; group and individual intonation; seating arrangement strategies; and much more! This collection of specific concepts, ideas, and reproducible pedagogical methods—not unlike small lesson plans—can be used easily and immediately. Ideal for band directors of students at all levels, Strategies, Tips & Activities for the Effective Band Director is the product of more than three decades of experience, presenting approaches borrowed, revised, and adapted from scores of successful teachers and clinicians.