Many studies have shown music to improve student learning in so many ways!
Here are a few ways that music has been shown to impact student learning:
Students who are involved in the arts score significantly higher on standardized tests including the SAT and ACT.
Music gives students access to unique ways of knowing and displaying their knowledge. Music draws on the multiple intelligences and accommodate a variety of learning styles.
Music promotes cross-cultural understanding and knowledge of civilizations and cultures, past and present, and helps students appreciate the diversity of their cultural heritage.
Music provides a universal language of communication.
Music offers means for creative expression.
Music provides opportunities for students to solve problems that require higher level thinking skills.
Music promotes active rather than passive involvement.
Music makes abstract concepts concrete and understandable for learners.
Music reaches students who are not otherwise being reached (e.g. at-risk students, economically disadvantaged, underachieving gifted, and talented students)
Music transforms how students are perceived by others, revealing abilities in learners previously unrecognized by teachers or other students.
Music builds community by providing opportunities for collaboration.
Music sharpens students' learning-to-learn (critical thinking, problem-solving, and perseverance) and social skills (team work and collaboration).
Music connects learning experiences to the real world of work (time management, discipline, and commitment).
Music provides means for gathering concrete evidence of student learning.
Music teaches three processes of life-long learning: critical thinking, creativity, and reflection.
Music builds students' self-awareness and personal skills required for success, such as planning, persistence, perseverance, and time management.
Students who are involved in the arts score significantly higher on standardized tests including the SAT and ACT.
Music gives students access to unique ways of knowing and displaying their knowledge. Music draws on the multiple intelligences and accommodate a variety of learning styles.
Music promotes cross-cultural understanding and knowledge of civilizations and cultures, past and present, and helps students appreciate the diversity of their cultural heritage.
Music provides a universal language of communication.
Music offers means for creative expression.
Music provides opportunities for students to solve problems that require higher level thinking skills.
Music promotes active rather than passive involvement.
Music makes abstract concepts concrete and understandable for learners.
Music reaches students who are not otherwise being reached (e.g. at-risk students, economically disadvantaged, underachieving gifted, and talented students)
Music transforms how students are perceived by others, revealing abilities in learners previously unrecognized by teachers or other students.
Music builds community by providing opportunities for collaboration.
Music sharpens students' learning-to-learn (critical thinking, problem-solving, and perseverance) and social skills (team work and collaboration).
Music connects learning experiences to the real world of work (time management, discipline, and commitment).
Music provides means for gathering concrete evidence of student learning.
Music teaches three processes of life-long learning: critical thinking, creativity, and reflection.
Music builds students' self-awareness and personal skills required for success, such as planning, persistence, perseverance, and time management.