Integrating Music Across Content Areas
Course 5597
Music is all around us! It sparks emotion, strengthens memory, and connects multiple systems in the brain which makes it an amazing tool to use in the classroom.
This course will focus on how music can be integrated into classroom routines and lessons to enhance students’ learning experiences. Participants will look at music’s affect on the brain, its role as a teaching tool, and the social-emotional impact music has on students.
You will explore ways to integrate music into your content area and make plans for implementation, learn strategies to use music as a social emotional support and create activities to foster cultural awareness. Unleash the power of music in the classroom to boost creativity, engagement, and academic achievement.
What you will learn:
Goals and Objectives of this Course:
- Use prompts about integrating music, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
- Define music integration and examine the benefits of this type of cross-curricular instruction.
- Identify strategies for music integration aligned with educational objectives.
- Implement the use of a music resource, tool, idea, or strategy to enhance student engagement in your classroom.
- Create activities in your classroom using music to foster cultural awareness and social and emotional skills.
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