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Kodály Instruction Increases Math and Reading Scores
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“[D]eveloped by Powderhorn music instructor Elizabeth Olson as part of her master's thesis, [a study] suggests that it's not only students' test scores that can benefit from extra time spent in the music classroom: students' behavior and self-esteem may improve as well, with as little as 30 additional minutes of Kodály music instruction a week…“Students [in first grade] in the study took the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) in both December and June. The data from Powderhorn shows math performance is significantly correlated with the music skill achievement of students. “In December, 25% of the first graders scored at or above the national average in math. By June, this percentage rose to 50% for first graders who had received additional music training, compared to 42% of all first graders.“Reading scores also improved most dramatically for those students with additional music classes--in December, less than 15% of all students scored at grade level or above. By June, 32% of students receiving the additional music training scored at or above their grade level, compared with 24% of all first graders.”
Benefits of Integrating Music and Children’s Literature
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“The use of children's literature as an aid to music teaching and learning is growing as educators become more accustomed to integrating music across the curriculum ... The goal for music teachers is to transform the material and accompanying activities into learning experiences that both support and enrich their existing music curriculum. [Benefits include:]• Children experience an interdisciplinary approach to the arts by actively exploring relationships between movement, drama illustrations, speech, and music. • Conceptual learning is enhanced by the apprehension of elements common among artistic phenomena, including repetition, variation, properties of growth and stasis, and so forth. • It promotes ensemble work, including the sharing and refining of creative ideas, and a concern for performance matters such as balance, tempi, cues, etc. • Children are encouraged to interpret stories in sound, the act of interpretation being a learning process that is increasingly regarded as essential to cognition in the arts.”
Music Teachers are Any School’s Best Reading Teachers
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“Music teachers are the BEST reading teachers any school has … Language is symbolic, just as are the alphabet, phonics, numbers, etc. Obviously, music falls into that category as well. Children need to learn to DECODE in order to read. Music is rich with opportunities to decode and interpret. We are constantly challenging children with the sound/symbol relationship. Through movement and rhythm, we can also help them learn to decode…“NO child can read fluently without crossing the mid-line of the body fluently. Our eyes must travel easily from left to right and back in order to read. Many children who are struggling with reading do not have adequately developed mid-line crossing skills. It is very difficult to train the eyes to do this; however, if taught through large motor skills, mid-line crossing skills almost magically transfer to fluid eye movement for reading. So, as we learn crossover borduns on barred instruments, wave streamers in a figure-eight pattern for a Chinese Ribbon Dance, play Shadows and Mirrors, dance a Grapevine, play a rhythmic rock passing game, etc., we are helping with fluid mid-line issues. And we are helping with right/left brain integration.- Meg de Mougin, co- director of the Midwest Institute Academy of the Arts, Midwest Institute's Kids Private Day School in Terre Haute, Indiana
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #7 Intrapersonal
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Intrapersonal “Martha Mead Giles found in a study reported in the Journal of Music Therapy that music and art instruction may be an important link to children's emotional well-being. In an Update: Applications of Research in Music Education report, Fall/Winter 1994, research was cited that in addition to an enhancement of self-concept as an outcome of music education, trust and cooperation, empathy, and social skills were also shown to be benefits of a music education.”
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #6 Interpersonal
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Interpersonal “A study done in 1978 by McCarty, McElfresh, Risce, and Wilson, reported that a pattern of inappropriate student behavior on a school bus was changed by playing music. Research at the Harvard Project Zero as reported by Colwell and Davidson, suggests that arts activities for all students on Fridays and Mondays reduces the absentee rate on those days.”
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #5 Musical
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Musical “A report in The New York Times International in May 1996 indicated that in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China music is a more significant part of education for children than in the U.S.A., and the children in those countries are far more likely to have what some regard as one of the most striking signals of a musical mind, absolute pitch. As reported in 'The Musical Mind,' by Susan Black, neuromusical investigations are producing evidence that infants are born with neural mechanisms devoted exclusively to music. And perhaps, even more important, studies show that early and ongoing musical training helps organize and develop children's brains. “A report by John Langstaff and Elizabeth Mayer in Learning, March/April 1996, presented a rationale for the importance of music education in early childhood. By approximately age 11, neuron circuits that permit all kinds of perceptual and sensory discrimination, such as identifying pitch and rhythm, become closed off. Not using them dooms the child to be forever tone deaf and offbeat.”
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #4 Bodily-Kinesthetic
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Bodily-Kinesthetic “In a report of the significance of singing in MUSICA Research Notes in Fall 1996, Weinberger cites research of Kalmar dealing with the positive effects of singing in normal children in a long- term study, as she studied the effects of the Kodály method of instruction, and found significant effects on motor development and cognitive development of those participating in the music program."
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #3 Spatial
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Spatial “In a study by Frances Rauscher and Gordon Shaw at the University of California, Irvine, that was presented in 1994 at the American Psychological Association, they reported that pre- schoolers who took daily 30 minute group singing lessons and a weekly 10-15 minute private keyboard lesson scored 80 percent higher in object-assembly skills than students who did not have the music lessons.”
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #2 Logical-Mathematical
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Logical-Mathematical “The Council on Basic Education conducted a study comparing the amount of time spent on the arts by schools in Germany, Japan, England, and the United States, and found that not only did the U.S. trail the other countries in time devoted and percentage of time devoted to arts instruction, but that the U.S. trailed countries in math and science scores. “A study in Rhode Island published in the May 23, 1996 issue of Nature reported that first- graders who participated in special music classes as part of an arts study saw their reading skills and math proficiency increase dramatically. Students who studied music appreciation scored 46 points higher on the math portion of the SAT in 1995, and 39 points higher if they had music performance experiences, than those without music education.”
Music’s Impact on the Seven Intelligences: #1 Linguistic
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“While it is understood that music education can have an important impact on musical intelligence, there is accumulating a significant amount of research supporting the impact of music education on all seven [of Howard Gardner’s basic] intelligences.Linguistic “A study by Hall in 1952, reported that when examining 278 eighth and ninth graders, the use of background music in study halls resulted in substantially more improvement of reading comprehension than those that studied without music. “In a study by Ramey and Frances Campbell of the University of North Carolina (as reported in ‘You Can Raise Your Child's IQ’ in Reader's Digest October 1996), preschool children taught with games and songs showed an IQ advantage for 10 to 20 points over those without the songs, and at age 15 had higher reading and math scores.”
SAT Scores of Students in the Arts
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“Students of the arts continue to outperform their non-arts peers on the SAT, according to reports by the College Entrance Examination Board. In 2005, SAT takers with coursework/experience in music performance scored 56 points higher on the verbal portion of the test and 39 points higher on the math portion than students with no coursework or experience in the arts. Scores for those with coursework in music appreciation were 60 points higher on the verbal and 39 points higher on the math portion. “Data for these reports were gathered by the Student Descriptive Questionnaire, a self-reported component of the SAT that gathers information about students' academic preparation.”
Research Shows Correlation Between Music and Language Mechanisms
Added: Jul 13, 2010 - View
“At a November 1998 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Los Angeles, researchers presented information on the neural basis of the comprehension of musical harmony, melody, and rhythm…“The researchers--Don A. Hodges of the Institute for Music Research, University of Texas at San Antonio; Lawrence M. Parsons and Peter T. Fox of the Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio--found that there is an area in the right half of the brain known to interpret written musical notes and passages of notes, that corresponds in location to the left-half area of the brain known to interpret written letters and words. Moreover, the researchers reported an overall strong activation in the cerebellum, a brain area traditionally thought to coordinate only fine movement or motor behavior. “The study, which was supported by a grant from NAMM--the International Music Products Association, shows that musical responses are widely distributed throughout the brain rather than localized in a single region as are other kinds of information such as vision or movement. The findings also show that the structure of music and people's use of it are similar in key respects to language structure and use.”
All Music Holds a Precious Element
Added: Jul 9, 2010 - View
"All music, even that which ably functions toward its chosen specific ends, holds a precious element that speaks to some divination within us of more distant and lofty ends which it bids us go forth and seek."Will Earhart, Former MENC President (1915-16)
Music Touches the Heart of a Child
Added: Jul 9, 2010 - View
"Music is the thing that, deeper far than all others, sinks into the heart of the child and touches it, touches it and moulds it as nothing else can."Elizabeth Casterton, Former MENC President (1913-14)
Improvisation and Language
Added: Jun 30, 2010 - View
“Improvisation in music is analogous to the extemporaneous expression of ideas in language.”
Broaden Measure of Student Learning
Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View
“Broaden the measures of student learning. The fact that states mostly rely on multiple-choice tests in reading and mathematics to measure student learning discourages the development of higher-thinking and problem-solving skills and also shortchanges subjects other than math and reading. Broadening test measures and holding schools accountable in some way for subjects other than math and reading would be desirable.”
Music Can Bring Together a Stadium of Strangers
Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View
“Music is an indescribable sensation that should not be denied to any person. Only through music can people truly understand one another. We can share immense feelings through a group musical experience that can only be felt by sharing music, even if you're in a stadium of strangers! Time should enhance music, not tear it down. It has been here since the beginning and it will last ‘til the end.”-Christine P., New York
Unintended Outcomes
Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View
“… the narrow focus of the law on two academic areas and the states’ reliance on similarly narrow student tests have resulted in unintended outcomes, such as the narrowing of schools’ curricula, encouraging teachers to focus on some students at the expense of others, and discouraging the development of higher-thinking and problem-solving skills.”
School Music Does Something I Can’t for My Children
Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View
“My children have all participated in the local elementary school honor chorus. Through music in the schools, my children have a new appreciation as they play the cello, violin, saxophone, and piano! This is all due to an interested school music teacher who introduced children to instruments and music reading. Something that I cannot do for my children!”-Ann W., Nevada
Music Changes Hearts
Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View
“I've seen music positively change the hearts of many students. I guess that's why Arts is the last 4 letters of Hearts.”-Matthew J., Tennessee