Music as a Teaching Tool-Incorporating music into almost any class can be a great way to teach content
Music is given prime importance as part of the school curriculum. Our school boasts of a highly accomplished music staff and a well-equipped music room on the school campus. Every child is encouraged and nurtured to learn at least one musical instrument starting from Primary grades. Social and emotional skills are learned every day by students as new scenarios present themselves. Music is one tool to engage each student and provide a pathway for connections and deeper understanding. Songs are essentially poems, and have a lot of meaning packed into few words. Our teachers do not just teach music and instruments, they direct the students and channel their minds to understand the finesse and intricacies of music.
Here are just a few examples of ways TGSB incorporates music into our classes:
Let’s do CHA CHA……
Dance Into More Engaged Learning: Dance moves and choreography can be useful in boosting students’ interest in and understanding of coding and other subjects.
Students use their bodies to communicate and express meaning through purposeful movements. Dance practice integrates choreography, performance, and appreciation of and responses to dance and dance making. Research shows learning through structured movement can be a fun and educational practice. Like music, dances have countable steps that can be used to enhance learning. With proper planning, educators can use students’ favorite dances to improve their understanding of new concepts and practices. Teachers at TGSB use dances when the class needs a warm-up or for motivation when students need breaks or pick-me-ups.
Play area provides crucial and vital opportunities for children to play. There is substantial research showing a clear link between play and brain development. All learning – emotional, social, motor and cognitive is accelerated, facilitated and fuelled by the pleasure of play.
We truly understand this fact and that is the reason we have both indoor and outdoor play area for our little ones.
Cambridge Early Years is our new programme for 3-6 year olds. It gives young learners the best start in life, helping them to meet key early milestones and thrive in and outside of school. Cambridge Early Years is the first stage in our Cambridge Pathway, which gives students a clear path for educational success from age 3-19.
The Green School Bangalore is in the process of being affiliated for CEY which will pave the way for CIAE at a later stage and we will offer GCSE programme for grade 9 and 10