Music Integration
I believe that Music is a fundamental part of the school curriculum. From previous practicums, my own schooling experiences, and other recent experiences of talking to music educators, I have really noticed a great lack in actually doing meaningful music education in the classroom. One thing, there’s a lot of teachers out there who don’t have much expereince at all in music, as in have any musical backgorund. Now, that’s understandable as everybody has their own interests, hobbies and so forth, but I think there must be a greater emphasis in training teachers in the foundations of music. This training would be probably be best done at university. I did Music, Movement and Dance in first semester of year one, I saw that it was profitable, but there needs to be more trainng than just singing songs from recordings–students and the teachers need to be more involved to really appreciate and learn music.
Teachers should probably look at integrating music with other KLAs more frequently. This would be beneficial and worthwhile as it covers several learning outcomes simultaneously, students can learn in an interactive and fun way… Especially with the revolution of technology in music, learning music can be really “be something”, not just another page in the syllabus.
on February 27, 2008 at 12:10 am
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