Planning a book of Music Appreciation for children
20 lesson activity plan and relates activities.
Reason
In contemporary spaces of young education, especially in early childhood education, the effect of music has been discussed in numerous opportunities. Several commercial resources, music companies and publicist companies had make use of the impulse of the Effect Mozart in children to make parents to buy their product. However, effectively, some studies suggest that different types of music instruction affect different aspects of cognition as Spatial reasoning, used in math; spatial perception with the surrounding world (that would suggest changes in the perception of self in economically disadvantage children), and in the capacity to develop or improve other cognitive, social, emotional, physical spatial and inclusive spiritual skills. Hence, the presented planning book resumes music experiences to be used with children in attention to previous concepts of music effects in their cognitive development, and attending to the expressed necessity of renewed and accords activity plans in the preschool, provide to colleagues the opportunity to explore music concepts in relationship with more common areas or topics.
Music Early education resume several studies, whose explain how the corporal, emotional and psychological state in children is transformed with the hearing of high or low beats, rhythms and body movements. More interesting is the effect of music in cognitive areas. In 2002 for example, a meta-analysis of 15 studies involving 701 children ages 3 to 12 years suggests that children provided with music instruction score higher than controls on spatial-temporal tasks (Hetland, 2000). In other countries such as Venezuela, and more recently in Los Angeles, California, national orchestra such as in the South American country and a local Orchestra from the American state, have been providing experiences for children in their systems. The particular experience of Venezuela has transformed the life of at least 1,500 children and adolescents between 3 to 17 years old, originated from low-income families or in risk, poor population. The children and their families relates that been part of the “System”, referring to the National System of Young and children’s Orchestra of Venezuela (Fesnojiv. 2009), make them more conscious about their mission in society, avoiding drug and alcohol dependencies, gangster bands or desertions from the educational system.
Therefore, for young or older children the effect of music would be appreciated with accuracy because of their own expression of emotions, opinions, and preferences for one musical activity instead to another and the labeling of their changes. On the other hand, the assessment of music effect in little children such as infants, toddlers and early preschoolers have been more difficult to verify. The present project is the first step to classify, systematize and clarify music concepts managed with older children, but in a easy and appropriate version in relation with 3-5 years old children,
On the other hand, the Planning book, in attention with the necessity to condense in an original and unique paper the program that teacher would implement with children, simplified music concepts for young children condensed in 20 lesson plans in an animated, creative and diverse presentation, with the classification of boarded domain in relation with children’s developmentally ages appropriate milestones. The project is a synthesis of previous experiences, consults with colleagues and in multimedia and bibliographical resources, offering to preschool teachers the first tool to initiate their creativity in the construction of new musical experiences for children. The attention of the project is concentrated in the explanation of activities which aboard specific areas in combination with Music, such as Art, Science, Math, Language or Social Studies. The primary development domain and other important aspects for the activity execution are explained in the book. Likewise the age of children for whom the activity is orientated, recommended number of children per activity, materials or equipment to be used, set up/location explanation, directions or ideas for activity implementation, description of other skills developed with the activity and a brief of relates activities.
The project has a goal accomplishment of 100%, however, overcomes the expectations because the grade of specificity achieved in every description, make the result highlight in elements to be used in numerous and variant spaces. Every theme describes music goals and adds at least 4 or 5 more ideas that teacher would turn to good account in their professional development. The presented planning book of Music Appreciation for children resulted in a useful resource for the application of music concepts and theories with little children. Also presented an extraordinary opportunity to combine music concepts with social, emotional, physical, language, literary and cognitive activities, been reinforced the mission of teachers to be model of transformation in our immediate community as well as participate as molder of our students´ acceptation-adaptability in society.
Words cited
National System of Young and Children´s Orchestras of Venezuela. FESNOJIV. Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela. 2009. Web. July 25, 2010.
Hetland, L. Learning to make music enhances spatial reasoning. Journal of Aesthetic Education. (2000). Cited in “Can Music Instruction Affect Children's Cognitive Development?”. ERIC Digest. 2003. Web. July 25, 2010
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