Detail 01
Teacher Resource Kit
Contains the director's material and classroom support, not the part a student reads and plays from.

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Teacher's edition of the Essential Elements 2000 string method, Book 1, with a CD-ROM. For the orchestra director running the class, not the student.

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Detail 01
Contains the director's material and classroom support, not the part a student reads and plays from.
Detail 02
Covers the first-year sequence. Students on second-year material will have moved past this.
Detail 03
Needs a computer with an optical drive. Many current laptops need an external USB drive to read it.
Detail 04
Standard music-book page size, so it sits on a stand without folding or overhanging.
Detail 05
A specific edition of the series. Match it to what your students are holding, or page numbers won't line up.
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Product questions
Straight answers to the questions shoppers most often ask about this product.
No. This is the teacher's resource kit. Students use the separate student books for their own instrument — violin, viola, cello or bass.
A USB external optical drive reads it. The printed material in the kit is usable on its own regardless.
This is the Book 1 kit, covering first-year material. Second-year classes need the Book 2 teacher resources.
Strings — violin, viola, cello and bass. Essential Elements has separate books for band instruments.
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