the sound of the common core classroom
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Too many teachers strive for library-like silence in their classrooms, often starving their students’ natural appetite for sound. Participants will hear how music, the lifeblood of the noisy classroom, is used along with argument, discussion, public speaking, group work, and movement to promote assessment success in the Common Core classroom.TRANSCRIPT
The Sound of the Common Core Classroom
Marc TownsendLaguna Middle SchoolSan Luis Obispo @TeacherTownsend
Rich HoveyDel Rio Continuation High SchoolAtascadero @TeacherHovey
The Traditional Classroom Model
Optimized for:– Teacher-
centered learning
– “Sage on the Stage” instruction
– Ease of custodial staff
– Solo work
The Sage on the Stage
CCSS and best practice pedagogy are challenging educators to move away from the “sage on the stage” model and more toward a facilitator of learning.
Henry of Germany lecturing to university students in BolognaLaurentius de Voltolina -- 14th Century
Q: How many of these students are attentively listening?
A: 3 out of 24 students. 12.5 percent
Bored and chatting
Having a side conversation
Asleep or hung over
Interrupting the teacher
Texting
Creepily ogling girls
Feeling creeped out
Doing what many kids do during lectures: Read, doodle, eavesdrop, space out, check email, take
selfies.
The New Classroom Model
Optimized for:– Collaboration– Mixing– Student-
Centered learning
– Pair-Sharing– Movement– Noise!
Why We’re Here… we want you to “make it noisy!”
• Too many teachers strive for library-like silence in their classrooms, often starving their students’ natural appetite for sound.
• Today we hope to demonstrate how music, the lifeblood of the noisy Common Core classroom, is used to foster– Argumentation– Discussion– Public speaking– Collaborative group work– Deeper meaning to your lessons
From College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for
Speaking and Listening:
New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened the link
to other forms of communication. The Internet has accelerated the speed at which connections between speaking, listening, reading, and writing can be made, requiring that students be ready to use these modalities nearly simultaneously. Technology itself is changing quickly, creating a new urgency for students to be adaptable in response to change.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening:
Use of diverse media is called upon by the CCSS to develop:
• Analytical skills• Evaluation techniques• Reasoning• Argumentation
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening:
Use of diverse media is called upon by the CCSS to develop:
• Analytical skills• Evaluation techniques• Reasoning• Argumentation
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening:
Use of diverse media is called upon by the CCSS to develop:
• Analytical skills• Evaluation techniques• Reasoning• Argumentation
Musical Intelligence
• Howard Gardner in Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Basic Books, 1993) incorporated musical intelligence as one of the 8 basic intelligences.
• Paquette & Rieg (2008) note that music has the power to make a classroom one in which a child can “thrive emotionally, socially, and academically.”
The Mozart Effect
Bloor (2009) references “The Mozart Effect” in his study on London classrooms. He notes and supports prior studies that demonstrate a correlation between the playing of Mozart and improved test scores in both math and reading.
“Music” in many classrooms, if used, consists of this
and this.
It’s time to unleash online digital music across schools.
For the Novice: Radio-Style Products
Pandora
Slacker
Songza
PandoraOur Favorite: Songza
Music Concierge
PandoraOur Favorite: Songza
Songza also appears more ad-free than
the others,
HOWEVER
PandoraChrome Adblock Extension
For the Expert: On-Demand Products
Spotify
YouTube
Grooveshark
Spotify.com
• Spotify is a music streaming application for PC or devices with millions of songs available at your fingertips.
Playlists on Spotify
• Create your own playlists to support units
• Stream entire albums or the playlists of others to support your learning environment
Spotify to Support a Lesson/Unit
• To support the mood of our units, each day music is streamed that supports the unit.
• The music plays softly while they write, reflect, pair-share, etc. …
• Sometimes the music itself becomes a lesson
– In this case, they wrote a reflective piece relating Taiko drumming to the Shinto belief system based only on hearing the music
Set the Mood
While working collaboratively to problem solve how to defend their African kingdoms, West African tribal music played in the background.
Set the Mood
While high school groups develop history-themed Las Vegas resorts, classic Vegas tunes by Sinatra and Elvis keep the mood fun.
Make Connections
While reading Into the Wild, students discuss tie-ins with songs from Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack.
Grooveshark
Excellent for having students make playlists.
Example
YouTube.com
Moving beyond only user created videos, many organizations now use Youtube.com as their own music and video delivery platform
YouTube.com
Unlimited, instantly available music and videos?
Why wouldn’t you?
YouTube Channels and Playlists
Archive your favorite videos from year to year by creating your own channel with various playlists
Follow Other Educators
Follow other educators to get updates on what they are showing in their classrooms
Strategy: Get In and Get Out• Playing a quick ≤ 4 min
clip can work wonders for appealing to the visual learners in your classroom.
• We call this “Get In and Get Out”– No need to play an
entire documentary
1. Students watched this video in class2. They pair-shared their observations3. We discussed as a group4. Students wrote a reflective paragraph connecting the
video to our curriculum5. We concluded by reading our paragraphs out loud to
our table partners.
PandoraNote: There will be obstacles to all this.
1. Too many people still believe a quiet classroom is a good classroom.
2. Many districts still block access to YouTube and music websites.
ReferencesBloor, A. (2009). The rhythm's gonna get ya – background music in primary classrooms and its effect on
behaviour and attainment. Emotional and behavioral difficulties, 14 (4), 261-274.
Common Core Standards Initiative (2014). Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org
Gardner, H. (1993). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. New York: Basic Books.
Paquette, R., Rieg, S. (2008). Using music to support the literacy development of young english language learners. Early Childhood Education J, 36: 227-232.
The Sound of the Common Core Classroom
Marc TownsendLaguna Middle SchoolSan Luis Obispo
@TeacherTownsend
http://www.youtube.com/user/ FolkSingingTeacher
@TeacherTownsend
Rich HoveyDel Rio Continuation High SchoolAtascadero
@TeacherHovey
http://www.youtube.com/user/ Teacher Hovey
@rich_hovey