Music is a universal language that plays a significant role in all cultures. Music can potentially be a responsive pedagogy across curriculum subject. Music is a form of art which allows us to enhance our experiences and develop personal connections. Like, music teaching is also a practice where educators are to discover their own teaching identity. Curriculum, instructions, and assessment are all steps educators must take when teaching students. Yet, when it comes to teaching curriculum within our classrooms the power of music is often overlooked. In fact, music is one of the most effective tools used to enrich the students learning. As a future teacher one of the most important aspects of teaching is developing a strong form of interaction with the students. This is done through a student-centered learning approach. Music is a tool that can assist our teaching by enhancing responsive pedagogy across curriculum subject. For example, by integrating music students will begin to develop in areas such as: motivation, engagement, and development of self-discipline, initiative, collaborative, and team building skills. When it comes to developing our teaching pedagogy one must consider the five principals; motivation, exposition, direction of activity, criticism and inviting imitation. All of which that could be integrated as part of a music cricculum. Motivation is the focal point to delivering an effective and engaging instructional process. When a activity is “fun” it allows the teacher to provoke a students interest. In The call of pedagogy as the call of contact. Phenomenology & Practice, (van Manen, 2012, p. 9) the significance of a pedagogy is described as being “pedagogical moments that can affect us for the remainder of our lives.” for instance, we have all had an interaction with a teacher that has impacted us throughout our lives. As an adult we have a influential role which can either encourage a student or even potentially have a negative effect of a student, thus taking away from a students potential to learn. A teachers relationship to a students is described as being within the child's microsystem. As a result, the teachers attitude towards a student has a direct impact on them. Similarly, a key theme In “Releasing The Imagination,” Maxine Greene is A key theme in “Releasing The Imagination,” is “discovering yourself” as a teacher.
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Greene, describes how learning is enriched when students enjoy the activity. In fact, when creating curriculum through a different art form like music students become more engaged and retain a greater amount of information. Music is a teaching device which can be collaborated with every subject. for example, students can learn vocabulary through song. In actuality, the first things we are introduced to are songs and nursery rhymes, like The Alphabet. Even in adulthood, many people still hum or sing the lyrics of a song or rhyme to remember something. Music encourages the development of language and metacognition allowing studnets to listen, understand and repete. As a matter of fact children are known to only say about one thenth of the vocabulary they understand. The main reason children don’t use the other 90% of the vocabulary they know is because thay are not comfertable enough to pronounce these words due to their lack of practice. Consequently, music has the power of sticking with us, it becomes a habit that we often repeated when performing certain tasks like “tying our shoes”. During my previous
Greene, describes how learning is enriched when students enjoy the activity. In fact, when creating curriculum through a different art form like music students become more engaged and retain a greater amount of information. Music is a teaching device which can be collaborated with every subject. for example, students can learn vocabulary through song. In actuality, the first things we are introduced to are songs and nursery rhymes, like The Alphabet. Even in adulthood, many people still hum or sing the lyrics of a song or rhyme to remember something. Music encourages the development of language and metacognition allowing studnets to listen, understand and repete. As a matter of fact children are known to only say about one thenth of the vocabulary they understand. The main reason children don’t use the other 90% of the vocabulary they know is because thay are not comfertable enough to pronounce these words due to their lack of practice. Consequently, music has the power of sticking with us, it becomes a habit that we often repeated when performing certain tasks like “tying our shoes”. During my previous