1. 1. What is the value of
music in school?
2. How should music be
used in schools?
3. What programs have
brought success?

2. The Value of Music in School

3. http://rosamusicprogram.com/statistics.html
•Full 100% higher on
fractions
•March 15, 1999

4. http://rosamusicprogram.com/statistics.html
• 22% Advance
• Instruction over seven months. ~ Nature, May
23, 1996
• College students
• 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points
higher on math ~ NJ: The College Entrance
Examination Board, 2001

5. Ways Music is Useful in Education

6. http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/advocacy/benefits.html
• spatial and arithmetic skills.
• ~ Rauscher, F.H., Shaw, G.L., Levine, L.J.,
Wright, E.L., Dennis, W.R., and Newcomb, R.,
Music training causes long-term enhancement
of preschool children’s spatial temporal
reasoning, 1997

7. http://www.kansan.com/news/2007/jul/11/music_program_quality_and_tes
t_scores_linked/
• Christopher Johnson
• Music requires discipline and
intensity
• Fundumentals

8. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/music.html
• “Mozart Effect”
• Flaws in the research
• Research should be futhered

9. Successful Programs

10. • Self-styled Ms. Music, Beth Butler
• Spanish taught through song
• ” They pick it up quickly, and
music makes it so much easier for
them”

11. Mile (Music Integrated Learning
Environment)
• 5 music teachers, 5 teachers
• math, literacy, and social-emotional
• Grades k-5
• http://www.mustcreate.org/programs/mile_index.html

12. http://www.mustcreate.org/programs/achieving_index.html
• Therapeutic drums
• Respect
• Teamwork and cooperative
leadership skills

13. • Recap
• Fund intelligently
• Support Music in schools

14. • http://www.mustcreate.org/programs/achieving_index.html
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/jan05_music.htm
• http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/music.html
• http://www.kansan.com/news/2007/jul/11/music_program_quality_and
_test_scores_linked/
• http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/advocacy/benefits.html
• http://rosamusicprogram.com/statistics.html