[Counselors] Art and music for 7th and 8th grades

[OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board]

We don't have art for middle school students (I wish we did!), but we do offer band to those students. Band is a yearlong elective.

An alternate plan and some research offered by a counselor:
Performing Music Teaches Valuable Lessons to Students

While listening to enjoyable music may improve cognition and math skills, performing music offers more advantages. Learning music improves math skills because, at some level, all music is math. It's about time
signatures, beats per minute and formulaic progressions. Performing music, therefore, reinforces parts of the brain used when doing math. Studies even show that children who play instruments
http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/interesting+connection+between+math+music/1473881/story.html#__federated=1
are able to complete complex mathematical problems better than peers who do not play instruments.

Students who commit themselves to learning an instrument may also learn other skills that help them perform better in school. It takes a considerable amount of patience to practice scales, and children who apply
similar patience to doing schoolwork will have an advantage over those who don't. Fine motor skills are also improved by playing musical instruments.

Taking time to appreciate music is a reward on its own. For the teachers and parents trying to help children succeed, that time could also improve math and academic skills.
>From https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/2015/04/correlation-between-math-and-music-ability/



QUESTION:

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:51 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion
Board <counselors at lists.onenet.net> wrote:

> Hope everyone is having a good week.  I have a question concerning music and art.  We require students in the 7th and 8th grade to rotate through 9 weeks of music and 9 weeks of art during their 7th grade and then again their 8th grade year.  I was wondering what other schools did with their 7th and 8th music and art as we are looking at more instruction time and going to a six subject day with longer classes rather than the 7 sections.
> *Danielle Tucker, M. ED.*
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> *Guidance Counselor*
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> *Navajo Schools*
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> *dtucker at navajo.k12.ok.us
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> *580-482-7742*
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