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Amy Spears; John-Doe Dordzro – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
In this qualitative study, we share the musical experiences of seven Ghanaian university music students who primarily play a brass instrument in a university band. The purpose of this study is to illuminate these students' musical experiences during their pre-tertiary years to better understand what those experiences were and how they impacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, College Students, Musical Instruments
Beard, Judy; Perez, Mark – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2019
This article provides teaching strategies for implementing music and/or poetry in a health classroom as a formative assessment to improve and evaluate student learning.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music Activities, Poetry, Health Education
Bautista, Alfredo; Ho, Yan Lam – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
Despite the urgent need to provide kindergarten teachers with professional development (PD) in music and movement, little is known about their needs, motivations, and preferences in this area. This interview study explores Hong Kong kindergarten teachers' prior music and movement educational experiences and their self-perceived usefulness of such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development
Pablo Rodriguez Aedo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study is about music teaching strategies for students with low vision, including blindness. Based on a two-case ethnographic design, this study focuses on understanding what decisions in terms of activities, lesson plans, and curricula, six participants from two different schools adopted for their students, as well as how these decisions…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments
Palaigeorgiou, George; Pouloulis, Christos – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Ubiquitous music is a relatively new research area which seeks ways to involve novices in music learning, playing and improvisation. Despite the ambitious goals, ubiquitous music is still unknown territory in schools. In this study, we have tried to identify whether ubiquitous music environments can enable novice music students to participate in…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Fairy Tales, Teaching Methods
Darrow, Alice-Ann; Segall, Lorna – General Music Today, 2015
School and community wellness programs are particularly important as many children and adolescents do not learn or are not exposed to healthy behaviors at home. Music has the potential to enhance all areas of wellness programs for students with and without disabilities; however, students with disabilities often face barriers to wellness programs…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Health Promotion, Wellness, Music Activities
Weeks, Kaja – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Communicative and social capacities are known to be of primary developmental importance to all children and often present a particular difficulty for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. A recurring challenge for teachers is achieving effective communication with children who span developmental diversity (e.g. inclusive settings or those…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Student Needs, Communication Strategies
DiDomenico, James – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2017
This project was conducted as part of the requirement for a practitioner-oriented research course within the author's teacher education degree program at a private nondenominational Midwestern university. The purpose of the project was twofold: (1) to investigate ways in which music can be integrated into the elementary school curriculum; and (2)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music, Music Education, Music Activities
Dorfman, Shari; Rosenberg, Ruth – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2013
Fifth-grade teachers Shari Dorfman and Ruth Rosenberg strive to help their students see the possibilities that exist within themselves, so that their students can begin to envision their own future. To this end, Dorfman and Rosenberg choose to celebrate the legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by sharing the stories of lesser-known…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Student Empowerment, Learning Activities, Reading Programs
Kenney, Susan Hobson – General Music Today, 2011
This article discusses song prompts as a way to encourage children to sing during exploratory play. A song prompt for "I Had a Cat" is included for educators to try in their own classrooms or preschools. Educators are invited to share ideas they have used that encourage children to sing during free play.
Descriptors: Play, Singing, Preschool Children, Prompting
Steele, Meg – Social Education, 2014
Sheet music, song lyrics, and audio recordings may not be the first primary sources that come to mind when considering ways to teach about changes brought about by technology during westward expansion, but these sources engage students in thought provoking ways. In this article the author presents a 1917 photograph of Mountain Chief, of the Piegan…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Primary Sources, American Indian Culture, American Indian History
Lee, Pyng-Na; Lin, Sheng-Hsi – Music Education Research, 2013
This study attempts to enhance the understanding of a music curriculum that represents holistic and meaningful learning for young children at a developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) classroom in Taiwan. The study participant implementing DAP was selected through purposive sampling by the Classroom Practice Inventory and pilot study. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Teaching Methods
Falter, H. Ellie – Teaching Music, 2011
How do teachers teach students to count rhythms? Teachers can choose from various techniques. Younger students may learn themed words (such as "pea," "carrot," or "avocado"), specific rhythm syllables (such as "ta" and "ti-ti"), or some other counting method to learn notation and internalize rhythms. As students grow musically, and especially when…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Music Techniques, Computation
Hall, Suzanne N.; Robinson, Nicole R. – General Music Today, 2012
Increasingly, music teachers are required to assist, tutor, or teach reading skills in the music classroom. In the effort to meet such mandates, music teachers may be challenged to either relinquish valuable music instruction time or attempt to combine instructional strategies of both music and reading into singular lessons, units, and classroom…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Music Education, Class Activities, Music
Soto, Amanda C. – Music Educators Journal, 2008
Conjunto music is representative of Tejano identity and is an important American musical expression. It is a symbol of a physical and cultural sphere where "Texas Mexicans" have had to "negotiate a life on the border between two countries with different attitudes regarding history, culture, language, economics, and politics.…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Cultural Influences, Mexican Americans, Music Education