Using Music to Accelerate Learning

Catalog description

This course is designed to demonstrate easy ways to incorporate the study of music in the classroom to enhance learning. Teaching children how to “listen” and what to listen for, ways to use music as a creative motivator, to increase language skills, enhance math reasoning and scientific analysis, and create memory and cultural connections will be studied and applied. Teachers will have the opportunity to create lesson plans and credits of study integrating music into their curriculum. They will also achieve a better understanding of where and how music may be used in planning future experiences for their students.