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Music in Our Schools Month
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Music is an essential educational tool that can contribute to all learning environments, and the early childhood classroom is no exception. March is Music in Our School Month and an appropriate time to incorporate music exposure and education within the early care curriculum. Music is vital to the development of language and listening skills. Music and the language arts both consist of symbols, and when used in combination, abstract concepts become more concrete. Furthermore, music activities can improve attention span and memory, and expand vocabulary.
There are numerous reasons why children should have frequent and varied musical experiences. Children exposed to music have a greater motivation to communicate with the world. Beginning at an early age, music has the ability to create motivation for children to communicate with peers and instructors. Self-management and social skills improve with musical activities, and children also learn to be more comfortable expressing their creativity at an early age. In addition, music exposes children to the existence and richness of their own culture, as well as the heritage and cultures of other people and regions. The nonverbal form of communication provided through music can help bridge the gaps among children of different backgrounds.
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The Patterns of Music
Research on music and music therapy suggests that math and music are related in the brain from very early in life (Burack 2005). Musical elements such as steady beat, rhythm, melody, and tempo possess inherent mathematical principles such as spatial properties, sequencing, counting, patterning, and one-to-one correspondence.
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Music and Movement
"A B C D E F G." Even before the brain research findings, teachers and parents have taught the alphabet to children with the help of a song. Now, based on the research, we understand why. With the help of cat scans, we have been able to see what happens to the brain when listening to music. Each component of music affects a different part of the brain, e.g. a familiar song activates the left frontal lobe, timbre the right frontal lobe, and pitch the left posterior.
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This Month's Trial Course: Music in the Classroom
CCEI offers
CHD100: Music in Early Childhood
as an
online
child care training
course to
new CCEI users during the month of March.
The goal of this course is to provide an understanding of the importance of music in the early childhood years and the ways in which it can become part of the curriculum and of children's lives. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to define the role of music in a child's development, the role of both quality and variety in the selection of music for children, the impact of music on children's moods and behaviors, the musical elements young children can and should experience, and list appropriate musical activities.
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Contact Admissions at 1.800.499.9907, or visit
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