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Get All Students Singing in Tune A Free, Fun, Fast Strategy! Dr. Susan Homan Homan@usf.edu Ann C. Kay annckay@comcast.net. SINGING Coach. The Great American Singing Challenge ™ A grassroots movement to get all children singing in tune. The Great American Singing Challenge™
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Get All Students Singing in Tune • A Free, Fun, Fast Strategy! • Dr. Susan Homan Homan@usf.edu • Ann C. Kay annckay@comcast.net
The Great American Singing Challenge ™A grassroots movement to get all children singing in tune
The Great American Singing Challenge™ • Motivate children to sing • Help all children learn to sing in tune • Promote family and community singing • Join the GASC www. greatamericansingingchallenge.com • Download software www.singingcoach.com • Pre-test in Fall: “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” • 4. Practice: At home, and in the computer lab • 5. Post-test in Spring “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” • 6. Spring Sing-Along Honor highest scorers and most improved • (Optional) (half of each)
What Teachers Say • Motivating! Students were fascinated by and loved singing with the program. • Accuracy and motivation have gone through the roof with students who used it regularly. • Finally, a scientific way to measure/assess a student’s ability to sing in tune! • Some students came back again and again to try to improve their score. • Even shy students were willing to sing. • The software surprised many of my students who had been told by either a family or a friend “you can't sing". They were pleasantly surprised to find out that they couldsing and were very good at it too! The software fostered a lot of pride in my students. • The families loved the Sing-Along.
Developing Singing in Third-Grade Music Classrooms: The Effect of a Concurrent-Feedback Computer Game on Pitch-Matching Skills • Dr. Andrew Paney, University of Mississippi • Ann C. Kay, Center for Lifelong Music Making • 2,021 third grade students; 30 music teachers. • Students who practiced 1-5 times with the software made significantly greater increases than those who were merely assessed. • Students who used both staff and graph views showed greater improvement than those who just used one view. • Boys improved more than girls (although they had lower pre- and post- scores). • Real-time, visual feedback helped students improve their singing accuracy