August 13, 2006

Music Education - Exposing your Preschooler to Music

by Patricia Guth

It’s never too early to teach your little one to enjoy music. Kids love to sing and dance to their heart’s content. Most children have a heap of natural musical ability. How you nurture it is the key to whether your child’s musical ability will continue to grow.

These days, parents are so anxious to give their children the “upper hand”, enrolling them in dance at age 2, soccer by age 4, and music lessons shortly thereafter. While this may appear to make your child well-rounded, in some cases you are doing more harm than good.

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August 8, 2006

Tips for Creating a Great Lesson Plan

by Ann Bowers

Madeleine Hunter, an educator of great renown, who helped establish the University of California at Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Elementary School, was the first to develop an effective lesson plan format for teachers to use. She identified several vital factors for learning that were not included in most lessons taught to children. She incorporated these factors into her basic lesson plan. The basic lesson plan has been modified at times (for example, “State Standard Addressed” was added in the late 1990s), but the format has stood the test of time and performed well in helping schools raise test scores.