Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn
Many practical books for music educators who work with special needs students focus on students' disabilities, rather than on the inclusive classroom more generally. In Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn, veteran teacher and pedagogue Judith Jellison offers a new approach that identifies broader principles of inclusive music instruction writ large. As she demonstrates in this aptly-titled book, the perceived impediments to successfully including the wide diversity of children in schools in meaningful music instruction often stem not from insurmountable obstacles but from a lack of imagination. How do teachers and parents create diverse musical communities in which all children develop skills, deepen understanding, and cultivate independence in a culture of accomplishment and joy?

Including Everyone equips music teachers with five principles of effective instruction for mixed special needs / traditional settings that are applicable in both classroom and rehearsal rooms alike. These five guidelines lay out Jellison's argument for a new way to teach music that shifts attention away from thinking of children in terms of symptoms. The effective teacher, argues Jellison, will strive to offer a curriculum that will not only allow the child with a disability to be more successful, but will also apply to and improve instruction for typically developing students.

In this compelling new book, Judith Jellison illustrates what it takes to imagine, create, and realize possibilities for all children in ways that inspire parents, teachers, and the children themselves to take part in collaborative music making. Her book helps readers recognize how this most central component of human culture is one that allows everyone to participate, learn, and grow. Jellison is a leader in her field, and the wealth of knowledge she makes available in this book is extensive and valuable. It should aid her peers and inspire a new generation of student teachers.
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Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn
Many practical books for music educators who work with special needs students focus on students' disabilities, rather than on the inclusive classroom more generally. In Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn, veteran teacher and pedagogue Judith Jellison offers a new approach that identifies broader principles of inclusive music instruction writ large. As she demonstrates in this aptly-titled book, the perceived impediments to successfully including the wide diversity of children in schools in meaningful music instruction often stem not from insurmountable obstacles but from a lack of imagination. How do teachers and parents create diverse musical communities in which all children develop skills, deepen understanding, and cultivate independence in a culture of accomplishment and joy?

Including Everyone equips music teachers with five principles of effective instruction for mixed special needs / traditional settings that are applicable in both classroom and rehearsal rooms alike. These five guidelines lay out Jellison's argument for a new way to teach music that shifts attention away from thinking of children in terms of symptoms. The effective teacher, argues Jellison, will strive to offer a curriculum that will not only allow the child with a disability to be more successful, but will also apply to and improve instruction for typically developing students.

In this compelling new book, Judith Jellison illustrates what it takes to imagine, create, and realize possibilities for all children in ways that inspire parents, teachers, and the children themselves to take part in collaborative music making. Her book helps readers recognize how this most central component of human culture is one that allows everyone to participate, learn, and grow. Jellison is a leader in her field, and the wealth of knowledge she makes available in this book is extensive and valuable. It should aid her peers and inspire a new generation of student teachers.
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Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn

Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn

by Judith Jellison
Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn

Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn

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Many practical books for music educators who work with special needs students focus on students' disabilities, rather than on the inclusive classroom more generally. In Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn, veteran teacher and pedagogue Judith Jellison offers a new approach that identifies broader principles of inclusive music instruction writ large. As she demonstrates in this aptly-titled book, the perceived impediments to successfully including the wide diversity of children in schools in meaningful music instruction often stem not from insurmountable obstacles but from a lack of imagination. How do teachers and parents create diverse musical communities in which all children develop skills, deepen understanding, and cultivate independence in a culture of accomplishment and joy?

Including Everyone equips music teachers with five principles of effective instruction for mixed special needs / traditional settings that are applicable in both classroom and rehearsal rooms alike. These five guidelines lay out Jellison's argument for a new way to teach music that shifts attention away from thinking of children in terms of symptoms. The effective teacher, argues Jellison, will strive to offer a curriculum that will not only allow the child with a disability to be more successful, but will also apply to and improve instruction for typically developing students.

In this compelling new book, Judith Jellison illustrates what it takes to imagine, create, and realize possibilities for all children in ways that inspire parents, teachers, and the children themselves to take part in collaborative music making. Her book helps readers recognize how this most central component of human culture is one that allows everyone to participate, learn, and grow. Jellison is a leader in her field, and the wealth of knowledge she makes available in this book is extensive and valuable. It should aid her peers and inspire a new generation of student teachers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199358762
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/03/2015
Pages: 266
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Judith Jellison is the Mary D. Bold Regents Professor of Music in the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin where she is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and holds the title of University Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Who's Here?
Overview
Describing, Grouping, and the Bell Curve
Definitions, Assessments, and Attitudes
Schoolwide Services: An Overview
IDEA
Section 504
RTI
Music Capabilities

Chapter 2. What's the Point?
Overview
The "Traditional" Music Program: Who Decides What and How to Teach?
Facing the Good and Not So Good Facts
Adult Participation and Attitudes
Status of Music Education
Student Participation and Achievement
Rethinking Issues of "Stuff" and Time
Making Changes with Ideas That Work
Principles of Transition and Transfer
Steps for Designing Meaningful Music Programs

Chapter 3. Where Do I Start?
Overview
Principle 1. Culturally Normative Music Experiences and Socially Valued Roles
Theory and Research: Quality of Life
Applications and Strategies: Quality of Life in Music Classrooms

Principle 2. Frequent, Positive, and Reciprocal Peer Interactions
Theory and Research: Social Ecology Influences Learning
Applications and Strategies: Musical and Social in a Climate of Inclusion

Principle 3. Fostering Self-Determination
Theory and Research: The Concept of Self-Determination
Applications and Strategies: Experiencing Autonomy, Competence, and Good Feelings

Principle 4. Collaboration and Coordinated Efforts
Theory and Research: The Process of Collaboration
Applications and Strategies: Getting Involved and Building Relationships

Chapter 4. Now What?
Overview
Universal Design: Architecture to Education
Significant Changes in Curricular and Instructional Practices
A Model for Effective Inclusive Music Programs
Creating a Quality Music Program and a Culture of Inclusion Gathering Information
Planning and Implementing Strategies
Thinking Ahead

Appendix A. Historical Timeline
Appendix B. From Exclusion to Inclusion
Appendix C. IDEA: History, Premises, Interpretations
Appendix D. Significant Changes in Practices: 1970s to the Present
Learn More: Individual and Group Activities
Notes
Index
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