Early Childhood Education with Music: Nurturing Young Minds
Early Childhood Education with Music: Nurturing Young Minds
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Transitions
Daily Routines
Big Feelings
Transitions
Daily Routines
Big Feelings
“The use of music in the classroom has been such a wonderful way to engage children in their learning. You can see their brain just change to another topic and move on. It’s also been a good way for teachers to incorporate a different way of learning.”
Director, Wilder Child Development Center
More About Learning with Music
Learning with Music is an innovative, evidence-based music integration program developed to promote school readiness and self-regulation skills for young children.
Beginning in 2004 and resulting in the recent publishing of a research study confirming its effectiveness, this unique program trains early childhood educators to integrate music throughout their classes daily activities. As children learn to use music to help regulate their behavior and emotions, music becomes a meaningful part of the classroom’s culture.
150% Growth
Children receiving MacPhail’s Learning with Music program showed 150% greater growth across the year in inhibitory control compared to peers who were not in the program. Inhibitory control is the ability to regulate behavioral/emotional responses. The research provided evidence that high-quality music interventions can promote a child’s self-regulatory development across a year of attendance.