After watching the videos on Math and Music, how does this information impact you as a teacher?
As a teacher, in general, this information should provide accommodations in the classroom to maximize output scores and classroom behavior. Playing music in the classroom may help kindle communication, friendship, and exam scores. While it may be wishful thinking that music has significant impact on learning, it could help with the little things in the classroom that usually hinder a students ability to learn. If music makes students be happy, and happy students learn, then it should be done more often.
Math is important at any level of education, but from my experience it is the most difficult for high school students. Just this winter break we had students that did not graduate from high school because the Math AIMS test was not passed. They had passed everything else but that exam. A fraction of students will always have trouble with math, but if we can identify behavior in children that are indicators of problems and intervene, it may reduce the number of students that may struggle with it later in life.
David,
ReplyDeleteHow students feel about their classes and learning can impact them in a big way. Although music is not the answer to everything, it can help students feel happier. Music can be easy to include in the classroom too which makes it nice.
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