If music is such a powerful tool for learning, why don't more teaching programs use it?
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I think many teachers are kind of afraid of music in a way. They just leave it to the music teachers to do, or seem to think it's only the music teachers place. \n\nYou're right - it is a very effective way for children to learn. If they are learning something through song, both sides of the brain are being used to process the info (music is processed in the opposite side of the brain than language). It's a higher and very effective way of learning and comprehending.
30098
farily simple to learn, extrememly difficult to master.\nguitar for dummies is an excellent book, and you dont need to know how to read music
166733
Music teachers and fidelity.\n\nOh, and quagmires, oddly enough.
888141
For starters, human's by nature are visual learners. This can be explained further by looking into Evolutionary Theory. Although, most of our teaching is completed using lecture, auditory input, most learners are visual learners first and auditory learners second. The audio visual classroom aids give visual learners the stimlus that helps them retain the information. Adding to that the auditory aspect, they can then connect the two forms of communication to allow for the best possible learning outcome. AV aids have greatly enhanced learning for visual learners, who struggled with "getting it" through the traditional auditory instruction/approach.
402182
You could play different music for people and have them write down what they instantly think of when they hear it.  It would give you insight to the brain.  But it would give you insight to people in general as well.  Then you could place all your answers together and analyze it and report your findings.  You'd need to do this on many people, just a few won't tell you much.  This is more psychology than neuroscience, but maybe it would work.
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I agree with everyone who said if used for the designated purpose of learning, the aforementioned tools generally assist learning more than they hinder it. \n\nJust more on the iPods: scientists reckon that listening to music whilst studying helps you associate ideas (such as academic ones) with songs you like and choose to listen to, thus aiding your ability to retain information.
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There are different ways of learning for different people. Visual learners need to see things like pictures, auditory learners need to be told by someone. There's a couple more but I'm not sure what their called. I know there's a hands on learner...that's me...I need to do something to learn it, and then there's the people that learn well from books. It just depends on the way you retain information.
545887
Doesn't your school provide these types of resources for teachers?
528723
YES,WHY NOT?THAT IS PART OF LEARNING.
616613
There should be an effective listening skills course. As a higher ed prof, I have taken several courses on it, but in our K-12 system in the US, I think it is largely overlooked. The K-12ers seem to be so intent on teaching what they have to that they don't seem to be listening to our children.
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Unfortunately, most independant music teachers, while skilled at the instrument, lack the business skills to make it a profitable endeaver. Since mistakes in the business side can be very costly, I'd recommend you go see your local SCORE group right away. SCORE is a group of retired execs that give free help to get new businesses started, and improve existing ones.\n\nThe second issue is the difference between being able to perform, vs the ability to teach. In time, it will develop. In the beginning, its probably ok to follow the steps your teachers used when you learned. I will however stand behind the fact that skilled music teachers who are marginal performers often do much much better in this arena, than top teachers with poor teaching skills.
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I believe that when parents play music or sing with or to their kids when they're young is a big influence to whether the child will be intrested in music. Of course the younger you start an instrument the easyer it is to learn. At least that is what I have found with me and people that I know.
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People learn in many different ways.  You can learn by hearing the information (auditory), seeing the information or demonstration (visual), manipulating or "doing" (kenisthetic), etc., or a combination.  If you are interactive, you are hitting on many different learning styles at once - and you remember the information better.  People learn better by doing something rather than just being told about it....
656716
First I think that 20% is a low estimation.  Second, teachers work incredibly hard to ensure that lessons are tailored to meet the needs of varying skill and ability levels.  Finally, even though teachers do what they can with the limited resources that they are given to work with, it remains difficult to reach all students (particularly with the levels of apathy at an all-time high).  There is nothing inherently wrong with the public school system.  The flaw however, is that not enough financial resources are put into a potentially great system.  With sufficient resources (financial, physical, and human), the percentage of students that would not understand their lessons would drop significantly.
381006
There are benefits indeed. Playing an instrument makes you smarter, it teaches you discipline, it helps to relieve stress, it can give you a sense of achievement and most of all, it's fun. And it's proven that people playing an instrument since a child become more smarter, articulate and have higher chance of having a successful life.
969373
Depends on the kind of remediation.  We music teachers often get stuck with that. :) Whatever the subject, I reccomend breaking things down into managable tasks through to-do lists (i.e.--to solve these kinds of math problems we do step 1, then step 2 goes like this. . . ).  To-do lists are easily displayed via powerpoint to large groups of students, and hand-outs can be printed directly from the presentation so they can use the list as a reference at home.  The hand-outs are also excellent for students who are visually impaired because they can be enlarged.  Also consider what technology resources will be made available to you. . . several schools in my area don't have computer screen projectors, so in that case it wouldn't be possible to use powerpoint in the same way.
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If you're a student, ask your music teacher. If you're a teacher, ask your students who accompnies them.