The document summarizes a presentation by Greg Foreman on teaching music across the curriculum. Foreman discusses how music teachers can reinforce other subjects like math, history, and science within music classes through brain-compatible teaching techniques. This helps support students' overall learning needs while achieving music standards. Foreman challenges teachers to harness the power of teaching multiple subjects through music to strengthen their music programs.

1. Texas Music Educators Association
February 11, 2012
Greg Foreman, clinician.
♫ Teaching Music Across the Curriculum
As educators, we understand the benefits of supporting non-musical curricular
objectives, but we may feel that we can’t dilute our music curriculum by
spending more than a few minutes of our class time teaching or practicing non-
music skills. After all, we have limited teaching time and need to use it wisely,
preparing our students to achieve our district music curriculum, as well as, State
and National Music Standards. However, by using brain-compatible teaching
techniques, we can create musical meaning, as we reinforce, re-teach, and
support non-music curricula, such as Communication Arts, Math, History,
Social Studies, and Science within our music classrooms. We continue to focus
on our task at hand: teaching our students essential musical skills while
simultaneously using common skills sets found outside our content area.
National Music Standard #8 challenges our students to achieve this goal: “Understanding
relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.” As we are
Teaching Music Across the Curriculum, we are supporting students’ needs, assisting our
counterparts in the classroom, and achieving our curricular objectives by using music as an
emotional hook to
♪ inspire,
♪ create long-lasting memories,
♪ increase critical and higher level thinking skills
One of the most important reasons we need to advertise our support of non-music curriculum is
the Shrinking Budget. The arts need to be “amour-plated” by using technology applications and
cross-curricular connections. We see the value in the arts, but those who budget sometimes see
the arts as a “frill.” If we support “core” curricular skills, then parents, administrators, and other
teachers will value the work we do – regardless of whether they recognize the additional benefits
of arts education: creative problem solving, creative thinking, following directions, teamwork,
& positive self-esteem.
I challenge you to harness the power of non-music curricular information to propel your music
classes forward using the “synergy” of Teaching Music Across the Curriculum!
Please complete the blue information card and return it to Greg or the proctor.
This will qualify you for a door prize drawing. THANK YOU!
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2. Gregory Foreman holds a Certificate of Piano Performance, Bachelor of Music
Education, Master of Arts in Teaching, and has completed forty-five, post-
graduate hours in instructional technology integration. In addition to being an
accomplished musician and teacher, Mr. Foreman is an author and clinician for
Alfred Music Publishing, Inc. He has also served as the Lead Teacher for the
Lee's Summit's Elementary Music Department, "Music in Education" Keyboard
Lab Facilitator, Mentor Teacher, Professional Staff Development Affiliate,
Technology Team Chairman, Building Web Manager, Adjudicator, and Director
of Various Children's Choirs.
Greg has received multiple teaching awards, including his district’s 2008 "Learning for Life” and
2010 “Excellence in Teaching” awards (selected from a field of thirteen hundred teachers). He
has performed as soloist with the Kansas City Symphony, UMKC Conservatory Orchestra, and
Youth Symphony of Kansas City, as well as on both National and Kansas Public Radio, live
broadcasts. He appears as "theatre organ" soloist at the Kansas City Music Hall and accompanies
silent films annually at the Kansas Silent Film Festival, at Washburn University, Topeka,
Kansas.
♫ hpe.leesummit.k12.mo.us/gforeman an example of a music web page, which includes
curricular web links, many teacher resources, and contact information.
♫ hpe.leesummit.k12.mo.us/gforeman/crosscurricular.htm cross curricular web links
♫ its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/music.htm music curricular web links in categories (K-12)
♫ alfred.com resources and music for your classroom and choirs (K-12)
♫ alfred-music.com tremendous resource as you look for new music and favorite classics
for your ensemble, as well as suggested playlists of various concert programs.
Teaching Music Across the Curriculum is an innovative music
teaching tool that supports students’ learning needs while increasing
critical and higher level thinking skills in students’ developing brains.
By using the authors’ inventive teaching techniques, music educators
can create musical meaning while simultaneously reinforcing and
supporting other curricula, such as Communication Arts, Math,
History, Social Studies, and Science. Teaching Music Across the
Curriculum offers creative, fun, and ready-to-teach lesson plans that
will build and increase students’ musical skills. Throughout the book,
students are provided with opportunities to create, analyze and
perform music in enjoyable and challenging ways. Reproducible
student pages are included, making lessons a snap to prepare, keeping
students actively engaged, and allowing for easy assessment.
Teaching Music Across the Curriculum uses a winning combination of creative teaching
strategies that connect students to materials, concepts, vocabulary, and ideas they’re studying in
their classrooms, while reinforcing the musical information they need to retain.
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