As a researcher and author she worked assiduously to adapt the Hungarian method of teaching music developed by composer, ethnomusicologist, and teacher, Zoltán Kodály, to the English language context using North American traditional music and pedagogical strategies appropriate to North American children. Prentice-Hall has published seven books authored by Lois Choksy which are widely used as standard textbooks for music education courses throughout the English speaking world. It is through these publications that her untiring search for the best musical example and procedure is revealed. Two of these books have been translated into Japanese and Chinese. A third revision of The Kodály Method was published in 1999 along with a new book, Kodaly Method II Folksong to Masterwork.

     Lois Choksy's teaching exemplifies the link between artistic integrity and effective teaching practice that is the mark of the true musician/teacher.   Her activity as a teacher has included public school children, gifted students at the Mount Royal College Conservatory of Music, classroom and music teacher colleagues, and undergraduates and graduates at the university level. Professor Choksy developed the Summer Graduate Diploma Program in Fine Arts at The University of Calgary, through which numerous music educators across Canada and abroad have received advanced training in music education. As well, she has supervised more than 30 graduate    students to completion of a Master's degree in Music with a Kodály emphasis which she designed. Many of these graduates now hold leadership positions in school districts and universities. Other Kodály summer programs have been developed based on the model that she pioneered at The University of Calgary drawing their faculty, in part, from the graduates of the Calgary program. Her influence continues through them.

     From 1993 to 1998, Professor Choksy was Head of the Music Department at the University of Calgary, during which time she has fostered the growth of the string program, and charted the course for approval of a Ph.D. in Music with specialization in Music Education, the first degree of its kind in English Canada. She was instrumental in the realization of the Rosza Centre, a fine new concert hall on the University of Calgary campus, which opened to the great delight of musicians and critics in November 1997.

     Lois Choksy has been on the organizing committees of the Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE), the International Kodály Society (IKS) and the Alberta Kodály Association (AKA). She served as president of the Kodály Society of Canada (KSC) from 1984 to 1988, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Kodály Society from 1985-1993.  In retirement, Professor Choksy will continue to write books while enjoying her garden and the company of guests at her Bed and Breakfast, the "Caprice", in Gibsons, British Columbia.