National Music Week is coming soon and music teachers are some of my favorite people. I taught K-8 music so I know the challenges they face. About this time in the year, music teachers begin to droop from late night musical rehearsals, competitions and performances. I think its great news that there are several tools to train the 4 different areas of the Common Core Standards.
Music is a gateway to learning anything. It is an essential and not an extra to add to the the curriculum. Music is an important global language that can produce the kind of collaboration that makes our world blossom. I recently read an article posted on the Roland Music Education site entitled, How Common Core Standards Affects Music in Education, and saw a definite correlation between Gynzy’s new tools and the standards that encourage critical thinking in these four core areas: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
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