Methods and Strategies of

Music
 Strategies of Music
 Incorporate Technology
 Create an Inclusive Classroom
 Focus on Engagement
 Embrace the Artist-teacher Within
Methods of Music
 Incorporate Technology

 Guided learning through educational app

Digital Audio Workspaces (DAW) – are a

particularly popular resource to incorporate.

“Students have this powerful DAW system in their

hands. You show them how it works, and
they’re off on their own.”
-Thorton alum Jim Wang
 Create an Inclusive Classroom

Goes beyond the range of musical

genres
Engaging students of all learning
styles, backgrounds, and ability
levels.
 Focus on Engagement
- Keep minds in healthy shape

“No one goes through the day without engaging

in music in some way.”

Four Simple ways to Engage Music Students

 Teach basic improvisional skills
 Learn what your students are listening to
 Embrace individual interests
 Incorporate technology
Show students how they
can create simple loops
to play over in
GarageBand.
Find out what your students
are listening to and craft
lessons around the music.
Don’t write off a genre like
Soundcloud rap if over half of
your class are fans of it.
Teach foundational skills or
concepts in a way that allows
students to use their individual
preferred genres of music as
the subject of the study.
Find ways to use
technology interactively
to teach less engaging
concepts.
Music teacher need to “step off the podium”
and embrace their students’ expertise and
interests to create engaging and relevant
pedagogy.
• It is a way of teaching children about
music that engages their mind and body
through a mixture of singing, dancing,
acting, and the use of percussion
instruments such as xylophones,
metallophones, and glockenspiels, which
are known as the orff instrument.
 The Kodaly Method’s philosophy is that music
education is most effective when stated early and that
everyone is capable of musical literacy through the
use of folk and composed music of high artistic value.
*Zoltan Kodaly – Hungarian composer
o Sight-reading, mastering basic rhythms and learning
pitch with a “hand-sign” method
o Known for system of rhythmic syllables to teach
steady beat, tempo and meter.
• It is an approach to music education that was
introduced in Japan and later reach in US during
1960s.
• Shinichi Suzuki modeled his method after a
child’s innate ability to learn their native
language.
• listening, repetition, memorization, building
vocabulary.
• Piano, flute and guitar
• Dalcroze Eurhymics
• Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (Swiss Educator)
• Developed the method to teach rhythm,
structure,and musical expression through
music and development.
• Ear training
• Improvisation
• Multiple senses
To develop the inner
musical ear
Helps students sharpen
their spontaneous
reactions and physical
responses to music
 People learn best when learning
through multiple senses.
Tactile
Kinesthetic
Aural
Visual senses
DONE!
 Music
 is an essence of emotion
which you can express your
feeling.
 an art of combining vocal
and instrumental sound.