Full Description
This is an essential neuro-inclusive resource for teaching music to diverse learners. Internationally renowned and pioneering music educator, Elise S. Sobol, presents current trends in research, policy, and practice, while sharing her experience and joy of music.
Designed as a text for pre-service teacher preparation courses, this edition offers a wider scope helpful to teachers in different school and community settings. While focusing on inclusive music education and its cross curricular connections, the fourth edition features:
-An improved structured, reader-friendly format, new graphics, end-of-chapter summaries, and discussion questions;
-New disability language etiquette usage shaped by the United States civil rights and educational laws;
-Eligibility categories for identifying students needing special education with latest report on implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) across the United States, each state, district, and territory;
-The author's conceptual framework for music assisted learning, examples of contextual teaching through universal design for learning (UDL), distinctive classroom music and literacy activities, and student success stories;
-The National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) and progress on state adoptions and revisions; references and links to the U.S. Department of Education, each of its affiliates, offices for arts implementation, special education, access and equity services.
With the fourth edition's wider scope, new features, resources, and dedication to culturally relevant and sustaining music teaching practices, music educators and students will find this an indispensable book for information, insight, and inspiration on the topic.
Contents
Foreword
Preface for the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Fourth Edition
Using This Book
List of Figures
Chapter One—The Basics
Introduction
Foundations of Music Education for Teaching Diverse Learners
Landmark Dates in Civil Rights and Education Law
Laws Against Discrimination
Child Find Mandate
Definitions of Eligibility Categories of Disabilities
Vocabulary for the Neuro-Inclusive Classroom
Instructional Adaptations for Learning
Disorders Requiring Educational Interventions
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter Two—Musical Process for Academic Progress
AEIOUS of Teaching Music to Diverse Learners
ABC's of Vocal and Instrumental Adaptation
Classroom Set-Up
Classroom Management
Classroom Discipline
Teaching and Learning Through Music
Introduction to Musical Literacy
Contextual Teaching Sound Signals
Introduction to Rhythmic Notation
Reading Notation on Musical Staff
Effective Strategies Across the Disabilities
Clues for Teaching Diverse Students in City, Suburban, Rural Settings
Applications for Choral and Instrumental Programs
Gifted and Talented
Ethnically Diverse
Success for All Learners
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter Three—Standards-Based Music Education
National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) Conceptual Framework
Educating the "Whole" Child
Enhancing Literacy with Music
Mediated learning in the Special Education and Inclusion Classroom
Six-Week Standards Based Lesson Unit
Classroom Inclusion Activities
Additional Teaching Tips for Learners with Autism
Additional Teaching Tips for Learners with AD/HD
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Chapter Four—Celebrations
Joy of Music, Early Beginnings
Conceptual Framework
Highlights from Different Initiatives
New Voices
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
Conclusion
Appendix A: Information to Access Links for U.S. Department of Education and State Affiliates
Appendix B: Books for Young Readers to Enhance Literacy in Music Inclusion and Special Education Classrooms
References
Index
About the Author
