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Music, Movement, and Literacy Mark Weakland

Research Rationale Past and present studies show…

… educational research shows that movement and music can positively effect memory and learning …

Upon integration of the arts into major subjects in fourteen New York elementary an secondary public schools, student behavior improved strikingly in such areas as taking risks, cooperating, solving problems, and being prepared. Created from PL 94-142 (1990) Reauthorized and transformed in 1997 Congress took testimony from hundreds of professionals, teachers, parents, advocates, etc. children in spec. ed were not reaching their potential due to the separate system. *Main point: IDEA is intended to insure a child’s access to the general education curriculum. * Presumption: children with disabilities are MOST appropriately educated with their non-disabled peers. *Separation from non-disabled peers can ONLY occur when the child’s disability is so severe that even with supplementary aids and services, the child’s education in regular classes cannot be achieved satisfactorily. * Burden of proof is on the school/district. General Curriculum Emphasis: Regular educator MUST be part of the IEP team. General educator carries out specially designed instruction when the special educator is not present, is on team to develop a behavior plan, etc. Team is expected to adapt/modify/provide aids, a BSP etc. BEFORE a more restrictive program, like Life Skills, is considered Parental Rights / Due Process - time lines, stop changes in placement Procedural Safeguards: PA is more stringent than feds. 10 days, 15 cumulative, MR is any suspension, MR IQ is below 80 (more identified as MR), steps that must occur before removal (IEP meeting, Funct. Assess, BSP, Manifest determination).

Music and language are inseparably linked as a single system in the brain …nonverbal modalities presented in music / arts education help students with skills used in reading, writing and math… Created from PL 94-142 (1990) Reauthorized and transformed in 1997 Congress took testimony from hundreds of professionals, teachers, parents, advocates, etc. children in spec. ed were not reaching their potential due to the separate system. *Main point: IDEA is intended to insure a child’s access to the general education curriculum. * Presumption: children with disabilities are MOST appropriately educated with their non-disabled peers. *Separation from non-disabled peers can ONLY occur when the child’s disability is so severe that even with supplementary aids and services, the child’s education in regular classes cannot be achieved satisfactorily. * Burden of proof is on the school/district. General Curriculum Emphasis: Regular educator MUST be part of the IEP team. General educator carries out specially designed instruction when the special educator is not present, is on team to develop a behavior plan, etc. Team is expected to adapt/modify/provide aids, a BSP etc. BEFORE a more restrictive program, like Life Skills, is considered Parental Rights / Due Process - time lines, stop changes in placement Procedural Safeguards: PA is more stringent than feds. 10 days, 15 cumulative, MR is any suspension, MR IQ is below 80 (more identified as MR), steps that must occur before removal (IEP meeting, Funct. Assess, BSP, Manifest determination).

Emotions Entry point for learning Entry point for memory

Why Engage Emotions? Medial brain (the limbic system) is closely linked to memory encoding and retrieval More pathways reach from the limbic system to the cerebral cortex than vice-versa The reticular activating system (filter) can be by-passed by emotions

Social Nature of Students Music and drama allow for cooperative groupings Drama activities speak to students’ natural inclination to talk and socialize Drama activities don’t control – they channel!

They allow for movement that is educational Music, movement, and drama can help to channel students with high activity levels They allow for movement that is educational Fun = engaging = fewer behavior problems! Mental health services that provide long term therapy, counseling, behavior management programs, TSS services, etc are not an entitlement. They can be stopped if it is deemed not necessary, if the insurance runs out and/or if the child doesn’t want services (after age 14).

Building Rhyme and Rhythm Taking a Break in a Long Block Feel the Beat Clap Clap Clap Your Hands There’s a Penny in My Hand Boa Constrictor My Hat It Has Three Corners

There’s a Penny in My Hand It will travel through the land. Is it here? Is it there? It will travel everywhere!

Oh, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
And I don't like it - one bit. Well, what do you know? It’s nibblin’ my toe. Oh gee, It’s up to my knee. Oh my, It’s up to my thigh. Oh fiddle, It’s up to my middle. Oh heck, It’s up to my neck. Oh, dread, It’s upmmmmmmffffffffff…

My hat, it has three corners. Three corners has my hat. And had it not three corners It could never be my hat!

Teaching Skills Phonemic Awareness What is the Sound That Starts These Words? What is a Word That Starts With ___? Head and Shoulders

Teaching Skills Alphabetic Principle A Hunting We Will Go

Scaffolding to reading success Building vocabulary Chant / Poetry

Keeping Fit Mike, Mike, ride the bike. Rose, Rose, kiss your toes. Di, Di, touch the sky. Joe, Joe, start to row. Lee, Lee, skate and ski. Dennis, Dennis, play some tennis… Make a hit by keeping fit! All Together Now: 200 of Sonja Dunn’s best chants, Pembroke Publishers, 1999

Little Animals, Mark Weakland Here Comes a Shark Shark, shark, here comes a shark! Oh oh! Swish, swish! Here comes a shark. He’s a big mean fish. Get out of the water As fast as you can. Don’t dilly dally. Just head for land… Little Animals, Mark Weakland

The Grand Old Duke of York Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men And he marched them up to the top of the hill, And he marched them down again. When they were up, they were up, When they were down, they were down, And when they were only half way up, They were neither up nor down.

Chanting to remember

Chants for rules and information Drop your e, add –ing Change your y to an i and add your ending A verb is a word, it’s an action word. You can see it, you can do it, it’s an action word! Restate, answer, support, cha-cha-cha! Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me

The Elements Silent E / T-I-O-N Many others! The Water Cycle Learning information The Elements Silent E / T-I-O-N Many others! The Water Cycle

Building fluency

The Delicious Chocolate Donut Poetry Re-Read   A Bug, A Bug The Delicious Chocolate Donut Nuh uh! Macaroni and Cheese Around and Around

Synthesizing information Demonstrating comprehension

Wax Museum

Wax Museum Start with reading of monologues   Start with reading of monologues Move to writing of monologues Science, reading, social studies, etc.

Book characters

Science terms: light

Talk Show

Annelids Annelids are segmented worms. What are annelids? Everybody! A leech is an annelid. What’s a leech? An earthworm is an annelid. It is an annelid because it is a worm and its body has segments. Why is it an annelid? Is a spider an annelid? Why not?

Talk show Host Three to four guests Work in teams to construct questions and answers Practice Present

Tableaux

The Industrial Revolution

Rewarding Behavior Modulating Mood

Using Entrainment Of physical bodies, body cycles, brainwaves and behavior Entrainment to slow pulses=relaxation Can be used to decrease discipline problems or change the mood of the classroom

Rewarding Behavior Modulating Mood DJ Friday Room transition Mama Don’t Allow