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Music Education

Music Education. Why we need it and why it is declining…. Kaitlin Farrell March 16, 2010. What is Music Education?. Sub area of Arts Education Found in Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education May come in form of Music Classes After-school music programs Private Lessons Etc.

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Music Education

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  1. Music Education Why we need it and why it is declining… Kaitlin Farrell March 16, 2010

  2. What is Music Education? • Sub area of Arts Education • Found in Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education • May come in form of • Music Classes • After-school music programs • Private Lessons • Etc.

  3. MENC: The National Association for Music Education • Established in 1907 • Educational organization • Responsible for the creation of the National Standards for Music Education…

  4. National Standards for Music Education • 1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. • 2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. • 3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. • 4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. • 5. Reading and notating music. • 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. • 7.Evaluating music and music performances. • 8.Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. • 9.Understanding music in relation to history and culture.1

  5. Benefits of Music Education

  6. Cognitive • Spatial-temporal reasoning • Higher order thinking skills • Organization & multitasking • Math concepts • Reading/writing skills • Memory • Concentration • Other curriculum content

  7. Psychomotor • Fine motor skills • Gross motor skills • Kinesthetic body movement

  8. Affective • Increased confidence • Better attitudes towards school • Cooperation • Communication • Cultural awareness

  9. Other Positives • Well-rounded • Real-world adaptation • Students with disabilities1 • Students pick up music faster at a younger age • Brains more adapt • Foreign languages

  10. Evidence • “An extensive study of over 25,000 eighth to tenth grade students found that students involved in the arts earn better grades and perform better on standardized tests than non-arts students. The study also found that high school arts students are less likely to drop out of school, have a more positive self-concept, perform more community service, watch fewer hours of television, and report less boredom in school.”1 • “Students who were significantly involved in music during middle and high school showed higher levels of math proficiency by their senior year regardless of socioeconomic status.”2 • “Students who are classified as "disruptive" (based on factors such as frequent skipping of classes, times in trouble, in-school suspensions, disciplinary reasons given, arrests, and dropouts) compose approximately 12% of the school population. This number drastically decreases to only 8% if the students are involved in music class.”3

  11. Why Music Programs are Diminishing • Money • Recession • Federal, State, & local budget cuts • Christie • Pressure to raise test scores • No Child Left Behind (2001) • Stress on math & reading • Teach to the test • No room for other subjects

  12. However… • NCLB actually lists the arts as a core academic subject • Reports find the decline of music began before NCLB began affecting schools1 • Research is sometimes misconstrued/exaggerated • “Chicken-and-egg quality”2

  13. How schools are reacting • Lessen amount of times per week that students have music class • Music teachers responsible for multiple schools • Music taught by classroom teachers • Reduce or eradicate music programs all together

  14. What We Can Do To Help • VH1 Save the Music Foundation • Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation • Various organizations online

  15. What Do You Think? 1. Does music have as much benefits as researchers propose or is too much exaggerated? • 2.How much music education is enough? 3.Out of class or in class instruction? Why? 4.Integrated or separate instruction? Why? 5. Are the benefits worth the time lost to math and reading instruction? • 6.Will you as future teachers try to implement • music education or is it too much to worry about?

  16. Bibliography • Dickinson, Dee. "Music and the Mind." New Horizons for Learning. 2003. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/dickinson_music.htm>. • Dillon, Sam. "Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math." The New York Times. 26 Mar. 2006. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/education/26child.html>. • Dillon, Sam. "With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps." The New York Times. 7 Feb. 2010. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/education/08educ.html>. • Everson, Carly. "Schools Fear Budget Cuts Spell Sour Note for Music." The Indianapolis Recorder. 1 Mar. 2010. Web. 27 Feb. 2010. <http://indianapolisrecorder.com/articles/2010/03/01/news/local/doc4b8bf053b0fb2430880079.txt>. • Farney, Devin. "Fate of Music Education Unclear following Budget Cuts." Examiner.com. 22 July 2009. Web. 29 Feb. 2010. <http://www.examiner.com/x-16425-SF-Musicians--Events-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Fate-of-music-education-unclear-following-budget-cuts>. • Harken, Joseph. "Budgets Cut Student Experience." CNN.com. 20 Aug. 2003. Web. 26 Feb. 2010. <http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/08/13/sprj.sch.cuts/>. • Hicks, Steph. "Keep Music Education in Our Schools." HubPages. 23 Apr. 2007. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. <http://hubpages.com/hub/Elementary-Music-Education>. • Ivan, Chris. "Don't Let Budget Cuts Silence the Music, West Genesee Junior Writes." Syracuse.com. 2 Mar. 2009. Web. 13 Feb. 2010. <http://blog.syracuse.com/voices/2009/03/dont_let_budget_cuts_silence_t.html>.

  17. Bibliography Continued… • Jaye, Emily. "The Effects of Budget Cuts." SOCYBERTY. 25 Jan. 2009. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <http://socyberty.com/education/the-effects-of-budget-cuts/>. • Moran, Chris. "Low Note Sounds for Music Education." The San Diego Union-Tribune. 19 Nov. 2004. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. <http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041119/news_7m19music.html>. • "N.J.'s Poorest School Districts Would Lose $125M from Budget Cuts." New Jersey Real-Time News: Breaking Local News from New Jersey. The Associated Press, 17 Feb. 2010. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. <http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/njs_poorest_school_districts_w.html>. • Zhan, Cindy. "The Correlation Between Music and Math: A Neurobiology Perspective." Serendip. 16 Jan. 2008. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1869>. • http://www.schoolmusicmatters.com • http://www.menc.org • http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/ • http://www.mhopus.org/index.asp

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