Rhythm Enhances Academic Learning (REAL)
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Give your teachers the skills necessary to deliver a comprehensive music-integrated language arts curriculum!
Classroom Music Making
12 hours of Professional Development
Teachers will receive an introductory six-hour, hands-on professional development session, gaining basic rhythm and music skills while exploring grade-level appropriate music standards and language arts standards. The outcome is that they will understand ways to integrate music into their curriculum.
A music coach will work with your teachers during six two-hour follow-ups to increase their rhythm skills and understanding of music integration.
Classroom Music Making and Coaching
All of the above, PLUS a 12-16 week residency
A music coach will follow-up, teaching students a rhythmic integration class once a week for 50 minutes for 12-16 weeks. Classroom teachers will reinforce these lessons on their own, and eventually become class leaders.
Teachers will work with the coach to reinforce Language Arts standards, vocabulary, and learning skills.
Coaching Model:
The teaching artist gradually releases responsibility to the classroom teachers to implement the program on their own.
Rhythmic music classes include:
- Drum circle (10 min)
- Language Arts Connection (ex: story development) (10 min)
- Identification of Rhythm in Language Arts
- Creation of Soundscape (10 min)
- Performance (10 min)
Example of Sixteen Week Residency
- Weeks 1 and 2 - Skills acquired by auditory learning
- Weeks 3 through 5 - Modeling of Music Matrix
- Weeks 6 through 8 - Guided practice of Music Matrix
- Weeks 9 through 12 - Independent practice of Music Matrix and self-compositions based on Class Story
- Week 16 - Culminating Event
Music Coach's Responsibilities:
- Deliver a music curriculum that incorporates the California music standards into language arts curriculum, focusing on rhythm activities, integrating Rhythm Skills into Language Arts, Reading, and Writing Music using Drum Circles and Music Matrix.
- Provide assignments for the classroom teacher
- Demonstrate student learning and comprehension, expressed during culminating event
- Provide music assessment as needed
Classroom Teachers' Responsibilities:
- Participate with students in Music Rhythmic Class
- Reinforce vocabulary agreed upon between the Music Coach and Classroom Teacher
- Work with students to create or identify a story to use for culminating event