MIA

Missing in Action

or

Music In Action?

Music Makes You Smarter by

Discovering Your Music Aptitude

Music Complementing Christian Education

Religious arts are evidenced by architecture, paintings, drawings, sculptures, liturgical music, costumes, symbolic artifacts, floor/wall coverings, landscaping, illustrated manuscripts, sacred literature, and dance.

Music as a Steward of Culture

Culture is like an iceberg—about one-seventh visible. The visible part is sometimes best discernable through the lens of the literary, performing, and visual arts.

Music as a Channel to Self-Esteem

Self-concept of at-risk students participating in an arts program increases. The arts program included music, movement, dramatics, and art.

Music’s Impact on the Capacity to Learn and the Ability to Achieve

•College Board identified the music one of the six basic academic subjects.

•SAT scores increased for students with music coursework.

Music’s Compatibility to Multiple Intelligences &

Multiple Literacies

Who— Student (individual)

What— Bloom (taxonomy)

Where— Gardner (the intelligences)

How— Costa (the characteristics)

Music & Aesthetics

Places of learning are not just physical: they are cultural, spiritual, social, and esthetic. Schooling should provide a continuity of experiences that encourages flexible thinkers to make connections.

Fostering Critical & Creative Thinking & Writing Skills

The arts are shown to enhance higher-level thinking, enhance communications & writing skills, prove reading by remedial readers, improve attendance, and increase achievement in language & math.

Multidisciplinary Integration and Effect

•Piano Keyboard Training with Math Software

•Reading Improvement Through Music

Academic Arts—A Part of the Core

•Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework

•Pennsylvania Process Adoption

Literary, Performing, & Visual Arts Supplemental Curricula Resources

•2 arts teachers per public school

•.087 art teacher per private Catholic school

•0.52 art teacher per private non-Catholic school

Individual Lifelong Benefits from Music Education

•Treating stroke patients

•Music Makes Me Healthy

•New Horizons International Music Association

Economic Benefits from a Music Literate Populous

• Audiences larger than professional sports teams combined

• Employ more than professional sports teams combined

• 94% in survey believe arts and culture initiative should be a part of Indiana’s economic development strategy

Benefits of music to humanity

• Our cultural legacy

• Multiple ways & means of communicating

• Release imagination for creative thinking

• Connected with life lessons that provide a

foundation for respectable citizenship