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Why Teach Music?
Have you ever wondered why music gets a bad rap in the education system? I have. It bothers me that more people aren't aware of it's critical importance with all the documentation stating how important music is to develop the whole child/person. Without going into the research, 'cause that would be like "preaching to the choir" at this site (a community of music lovers), I am going to focus on some general and obvious ways music enhances our thinking, our reasoning, our emotions, and our intelligence.
The following information was primarily obtained from Southern Music Company in San Antonio along with some of my own experience inserted in a "soapbox" here and there. I'd like to share this information because many of us will be taking on new students privately or publicly in the near future. It is a good reminder for us on those more difficult and trying days where we sit and wonder why we put ourselves through this. But it is especially a good reference to hand out to parents, and even music-skeptics. It can't hurt!
Why Teach Music?
Music is mathematical.
Music helps us learn to read and develop creativity.
Music is a Science.
Music is a foreign language.
Music is Historical.
Music is Physical Education
Music develops insight and demands research. Music is all of these things, but most of all . . .
For all of these reasons and countless more, we are music teachers. We believe in the greatness that music instills in our students. We believe in the discipline, the dedication, the development of self-esteem, and enjoy witnessing our students become vessels of beauty. Yes, the planting season is upon us, once again. We drop our seeds of knowledge into their curious minds and then draw miracles from them. We encourage our students to "weather" the seasons, in hopes that someday, they will be what they are meant to become; loving, caring, lovers of the art we call music.
That is why we teach music!
Not because we expect our students to major in music.
Deborah Jeter is a music teacher based in Texas, who has taught for almost thirty years. She has a Bachelors of Music Education from the University of North Texas State and a Masters of Science from NOVA Southeastern University, in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. She has been employed as an elementary music teacher for most of her thirty year career in education. She has been a contributing editor for Musicstaff.com, since 1997.
Music is relevant to the core curriculum (the three R's)?
Let us count the ways.
Not because we expect them to play or sing all of their lives.
…but because they will become more sensitive to beauty and live more closely to an infinite beyond this world. They will have something to cling to and hopefully will experience more depth as a person. We teach music because we believe our students will develop more compassion, gentleness, more love, and, in short, more of life.
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