Focusing on the brain's natural functions, this article discusses specific teacher characteristics, teaching methods, and peripheral stimuli helping to activate appropriate learning behavior. Also identifies particular events and teacher behaviors that block learning and frustrate the brain's efforts to harmonize conflicts and admit new…

The objectives of this pamphlet are to: (1) introduce the processes of music learning to non-musician educators; (2) illustrate how music learning serves as a model for all learning; (3) enable educators to gain a new perspective of the demands and processes needed to develop musical talent; and (4) help non-musician administrators understand that…