1. Teaching Strategies for Musical Learners

2. Clap, Boom Boom Clap Clap Boom Boom
The more learning styles incorporated, the better.
We’re going to learn something together that incorporates every learning style, and will also help bond us as a group (important in the classroom).

3. Music Smart Student Learns Through: Lyrics Rhythms Melodies Good for:
Musically gifted students
Classroom Examples:
Rhymes
Chants
Learning songs
Creating songs
Student use of music

4. Earlier this week…. Here, there, everywhere In front of, behind
In, out, give a shout Now tell me the time
Cause this right here
Up, down, Left, right Is the end of the rhyme
Practice ‘til you get it right
Very close or far away
In our memory this will stay

5. “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” Head, shoulders Knees and toes
(REPEAT)
Eyes and ears
And mouth and nose

6. Learning Through Popular Music
Benefits:
Improves pronunciation
Learn new vocabulary/grammar
Increases speaking speed
Cultural knowledge gained

7. Students identify known information
Introduce song
Students identify known information
Students identify and learn new information
Small chunks: listen/repeat
Frequent exposure - always listening, reading, singing
Assessment
-Quiz , Using instrumental versions
WHEN KIDS WON”T SING: explain bare minimum, and how to increase confidence level. Depends on my confidence too.

8. In my classroom...
“Soy Incondicional” by Prince Royce

9. Demonstrating Knowledge Musically
Creating an original song/poem
-Can fit any content at any level
In my classroom….
Must include:
-Explanation of tense
-Verb endings
-Context in which tense is used
-3 examples

10. Engaging Musical Learners in Reading
Use stories/poems told with a simple rhyme scheme
Use for listening or reading comprehension
-Engages musical learners
-Helps all learners with pronunciation
(predictable sounds)

11. Playing Music in the Classroom
Helps people concentrate
**Music without words or English only
Can make classroom management easier
**Minimizes talking (If you can’t hear…)
**Influences students’ moods
Influence students’ moods: calming effect when they are too excited, upbeat things when they feel sluggish before engaging activities

12. Nursery Rhymes
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

13. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky

14. London bridge is falling down Falling down, falling down
My fair lady

15. It’s raining, it’s pouring The old man is snoring
He went to bed and bumped his head
And didn’t get up till morning

16. Tongue Twisters
She sells sea shells at the sea shore
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood