Showing posts with label music in the classroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music in the classroom. Show all posts

Monday 28 September 2015

Music Education - Can It Turn Children Into Good Listeners & Learners

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Today we can frequently see most students hooked on to their headphones while commuting to schools and colleges or even in their leisure time. This clearly proves a fact that, music has become an integral part of our lives with instant and easy access to the latest tracks view our smartphones and iPods. There is no doubt that music impacts our energy levels and our emotions. It helps us to create various moods and memories and enables us to focus and relax as well. But can we use music in our classrooms to help our students learn better? Let's take a look....
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The Old Way


Classical music may appear boring sometimes to the modern children but it is the healthiest food for the mind. Practising it harder and harder actually can take a learner to different levels which are not only satisfactory from its appearance but are also professional. For example, the learners need to concentrate throughout a concert that enables them to identify both the perfect music or its variation which may prove efficient.


The Musical Way


Music is responsible for the child to be psychologically patient. It has the ability to turn a child from a naughty shouter to a calm listener. Music improves the smartness of the child; makes him/ her stand apart from the others and perform something exceptional and even turns them to a deeper realisation of his/ her own self.


Author Philip Pullman said about music that it is an efficient and required subject. He also comments that music is one of the ‘the most emotionally and intellectually fulfilling’ activity that a child performs.


The Educational Benefits Of Music


The listening skills; non-verbal communicational skills; a stronger understanding of emotion; focusing or concentration; teamwork and many other things are the educational qualities of music. Teachers as well as the parents are getting encouraged by it and its result is the musical projects. Let’s look at the qualities of education, that music provides with:

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  • Listening Power:

Listening skills is one of the powerful impacts of music. It soothes the mind of the learners; makes them patient and improve their audible as well as psychological acceptability.

  • Character Formation:

Music has a strong impact on the building of the character of a child, shaping it in a way that this ‘musical’ effect is always comprehended as a positive feature of the child even in the matured stages.

  • Do more:

‘To go beyond’ is another slogan of music when it comes to education. It helps to the psychological expansion of a candidate. A learner also becomes more expressive with music in his/ her side.

  • Competitive mind:

What about competition? The answer is music also increases the competitive attitude of the learners that results better in both education and life.

How Educators Can Enhance With Music?



  • Build a positive state for learning
  • Establish an ideal atmosphere
  • Create a sense of expectancy & anticipation
  • Make learning activities more invigorating & involving
  • Alter brain wave states
  • Improve focus & concentration in learners


Musically Enriched


The aim should be obvious. Music should never be treated as a commercial object and should be accepted with deep realisation and sincere respect. Children are the future of the society and their ineffective education means the disastrous condition of the country that is yet to come. One of the ways to recover from such catastrophic problem is to implement music as one of the integral elements supporting the base foundation of education.

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