Home | Guide to Online Gaming | Gaming Articles | Online Gaming | Resources | Directory | Site Map

Welcome to Contest Listings!
Contest Listings is a comprehensive source of high quality contests and sweepstakes listings. We compile information on promotions, contests and games currently in progress throughout the country to help you learn about them and register for those that interest you the most. Please browse through the contest listings and put your game face on!
ContestListings.com

Benefits Of Music Education

Three Powerful Reasons why children benefit from music education as part of their Curriculum, especially at a young age. There has been plenty of research done about the benefits of music education for young children. 1.

Playing music improves concentration, memory and self-expression One two-year study in Switzerland run with 1200 children in more than 50 classes scientifically showed how playing music improved children's reading and verbal skills through improving concentration, memory and self-expression.(1) Younger children who had three more music classes per week and three fewer main curriculums made rapid developments in speech and learned to read with greater ease. Other effects revealed by the study showed that children learned to like each other more, enjoyed school more (as did their teachers) and were less stressed during the various tests, indicating they were better able to handle performance pressure. 2. Playing music improves the ability to think Ongoing research at the University of California-Irvine and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2) demonstrate that learning and playing music builds or modifies Neural pathways related to spatial reasoning tasks, which are crucial for higher brain functions like complex maths, chess and science. The first studies showed that listening to a Mozart sonata temporarily improved a child's spatial abilities.

Further studies compared children who had computer lessons, children who had singing lessons, children who learned music using a Keyboard and children who did nothing additional. The children who had had the Music classes scored significantly higher - up to 35% higher - than the children did Who had computer classes or did nothing additional.(3) 3. Learning music helps under-performing students to improve Researchers at Brown University in the US (4) discovered that children aged 5-7 years who had been lagging behind in their school performance had caught up with their peers in reading and were ahead of them in math's after seven months of music lessons. The children's classroom attitudes and behavior ratings had also Significantly improved, and after a year of music classes were rated as better than the children who had had no additional classes.

1. E W Weber, M Spychiger and J-L Patry, Musik macht Schule. Biografie und Ergebnisse eines Schulversuchs mit erweitertemMusikuntericcht. Padagogik in der Blauen Eule, Bd17. 1993.

2. Various studies by Dr. Gordon Shaw (University of California-Irvine) and Dr. Fran Rauscher (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), with others.Including those published in Nature 365:611 and Neuroscience Letters 185:44-47 3.

E L Wright, W R Dennis & R L Newcomb. Neurological Res.19:2-8. 1997 4.

M F Gardiner, A Fox, F Knowles & D Jeffrey. Learning improved by arts training. Nature 381:284. 1996.

Kevin and Janice Tuck jointly own the Fun Music Company, an organization dedicated to providing fun, educational music resources for children and teachers. They also have a free music teachers resource collection at their music teachers blog



Contests and Sweepstakes






Softball Olympic Sport No Longer - Softball has been around since a man named George Hancock first invented the game in 1887 in Chicago.

Different Types of Fantasy Football Leagues - Interest in fantasy football is growing by leaps and bounds.

Massive Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games - Since the birth of the internet, online games have been keeping thousands of people entertained worldwide.

Nana Korobi Ya Oki Times Down Times Up Success Secrets from the Martial Art of Ninjutsu - On the left lapel of every adult student here at Warrior Concepts, there is a patch bearing the Japanese kanji character 'NIN.

Big Game Hunting Network Bears in Russia and United States Will They Survive The Global Warming - Big game hunting networks are set up all over the world.

more...

ContestListings.com © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved.