{Presented by: Rochelle R. GoldbergUnion-Endicott CSD

Cultivating a Climate that Embraces Diversity

Music education has become a more dynamic field in recent decades, due in no small part to the diversified easily accessible online music and curricular content that is now available enabling us to study diversity in meaningful ways.

I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.”

~ Haim Ginott

Teacher

Posters of composers from diverse cultures.

Posters in different languages.

The Artwork of Karen Cannon

Climate through DécorCreating a culturally responsive learning environment.

Language often doesn’t matter-emotion does. Feel the music, and you can understand the message.

Google Translate

Translating Apps for iPhone and Android

Lesson books in foreign languages

Bridge The Gaps and Break Down Language Barriers!

EMPATHY: Students develop empathy through music. Empathy is something students struggle to learn, but is an invaluable skill once acquired. When students can put themselves in another’s place, respect flourishes. Where there is respect, learning can take place unabashed.

STEREOTYPES: To believe unfairly that all people with a specific characteristic are the same. Discuss stereotypes associated with the various music genres.

Key Vocabulary

“Zero tolerance” for anything that is disrespectful, hurtful or intolerant of diversity

Be Tolerant of people different from us

Think about the impact of our words and actions on others first.

Keep an open ‘Yogi’ mind

Suggested Ground Rules for Music Listening Discussions.

No laughing

Be kind

Really listen to one another

Recognize we have much to learn from one another.

STUDY: ROCK, POP, WHITE POWER: How Music Influences Support for Ethnic Groups

Music has a lot of power to influence our thoughts and actions, (Rochelle adds ‘Moods’) more than we often recognize. It has the power to reinforce our positive biases toward our own group, and sometimes negative biases toward others.

Climate and Music: Is Music to the Soul as Food to the Body?

The study involved 148 undergraduate students who were told they would be participating in a study concerning the funding of student groups on campus using tuition funds.

Listened to Music in a Waiting Room for 7 minutes.

(study continued)

Build artwork around the sound of music.

Study the lyrics of cultural music and their meanings.

Incorporate drama into regular class activities.

Allow students to find or design/illustrate appropriate costumes or wardrobe for the roles they play

Drum Circles

Celebrating Culture Through the Fine and Performing Arts

Allow sharing by students in class, giving time for others to ask questions for understanding.

Opportunities for collaboration: Group projects, presentations, class activities, etc.

Celebrate whenever possible!

Recognize commemorative days

Cookbook, recipe and suitable music accompaniment

Find and make any available cultural instruments. Ocarina’s!

Listen to it-play music quietly in the background during work times.

Diorama your story!

Write a play/musical

Bring in guest performers and role models from diverse backgrounds.

Amazing Grace Whitley Phipps

Wintley Phipps Amazing Gracehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcjnNry4doSpringboard to Beyonce Swing Low Sweet Chariotthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryfRoqbu4cSpringboard to African American Spirituals and Slave ChantsSpringboard to Amazing Grace 7 year old girl:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDDlxmsciqYSpringboard to Alabama Sacred Harp Singing Convention Alabamahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW9V0JD87dk

From Pop to the Promise Land

Britains Got Talent: Jonathan and Charlotte Audition:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4 Springboard to Andrea Bocelli with Celine DionSpringboard to Pavarotti and the Three Tenors

Gangnam Style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIQToVqDMb8Springboard to North Korean Children Playing the Guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSedE5sU3ucSpringboard to Classical Guitar Music or Traditional Korean Music

Paul Simon’s ‘Call Me Al’ from the Graceland CD:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrKejQTynkSpringboard to Ladysmith Black MambazoSpringboard to the Lion King Circle of Life/the Lion Sleeps Tonight

Junichi Tazawa Red Sox Ballplayer entrance music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1vV2GmZP2MJapanese Music

The Piano Guys: what Makes you Beautiful (One Direction)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VqTwnAuHwsThe Piano guys: Pachelbel’s Cannon (4 Cellos)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5_xj_yuhsPachelbel’s Rant: Comedyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

Hasidic Regge/Rap Matisyahuhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxxuSiC4wNw

http://books.google.com/books/about/Teaching_Music_Globally.html?id=pRTAQgAACAAJ

Teaching Music Globally (Oxford University Press, 2004) K-12 Resource

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Bethsmusicnotes.blogspot.comhttp://www.bethsmusicnotes.blogspot.com/

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