Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 1997/04

From: "Michael D. Moors" <mdmoors@-----.us>
Subj: Re: ammo for music teachers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:58:52 -0400

MENC has a video out called Reverse Economics by John Benham. The video is
great because it takes the following approach:

1. If there are 75 kids in a given band class, the school was cutting band
to save money. How does it is save money when it takes two additional
teachers to handle the cutback? This theory is using a 30 to 1 ratio.
2. If your district is planning on cutting elementary band because it is a
pull-out program. It makes no sense because the enrollment they create at
the secondary program pays for itself.

The most effective tool I have seen.. You don't reason with administrators
talking motor skills, increasing reading and math skills and developing
teamwork. They don't seem particularly impressed when you show them that
music student get better SAT scores. You can tell them that band increases
concentration skills untill you are blue in the face. You have to talk
dollars. Lorne G. Buick had a great article and I agree with everything in
it but this is what I found in my district.

Learned from Experience,

Mike Moors

At 04:18 PM 4/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Lorne G. Buick wrote:
>
>> Here's a tidbit that someone might be able to use in the fight against
>> cutbacks, or to encourage someone who's debating where to spend limited
$$$:
> * i read this article too. sounds promising for us future music
>educators.
>> [From the Globe and Mail (Canada's "National" Newspaper), Fri. April 11,
p A20]
>>
>> **************
>>
>> Musical Benefits
>>
>> The piano keyboard beat the computer keyboard in a study of preschoolers.
>> Frances Rauscher of the U. of California, Irvine, and her team of
>> researchers selected 100 children and divided them into three groups: those
>> to be trained on a computer for 15 minutes twice a week, those to get the
>> equivalent training on a piano nad those getting no special training. After
>> eight months, an IQ test showed the music group scored significantly
>> higher on skills essential in math, science, engineering and games like
>> chess. When youngsters study piano, researchers said, concepts such as
>> forward and back, up and down, loud and soft become easier to understand.
> *concepts such as addition and subtraction (from note durations) and
>patterns (from scales, sequences, form, etc) were easier for the children
>to comprehend as well. so, guess what?: we musicians are smart people
>because of our music &!! this proves that music is beneficial and almost
>crucial. yea!! :-)
>i just had to give my two cents. -kim = UNT
>> ****************
>> > Information is not Knowledge. Knowledge is not Understanding.
>> Understanding is not Wisdom. Wisdom is not Truth.
>> Truth is not Beauty. Beauty is not Music.
>> Music is best. -Frank Zappa
>>
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