Reciprocally, I never thought I'd actually appreciate K-pop until my students shared it (sort of in thanks for me turning them onto some Danny Elfman scores). The beat boxing in some of their YouTube videos is slamming every which way you look, and they take on multiple genres with their beautifully blended voices. As an a cappella geek, I have been known to play a song from the a cappella group, Pentatonix, every now and then as well.
MUSIC MATH FOR 8TH GRADE FULL
The week after I saw The Lego Movie, every period that walked into my middle school classroom was greeted with "Everything is AWESOME!" Haven't heard it? I dare you to be asleep or disinterested in anything for at least a full hour after hearing that 2:43 song. And we know that reciprocal learning in a classroom, whether to build subject matter competency or community, is key in pulling out the best academic results from those students. Music is a way in with students, a way for them to learn about you and for you to learn about them. After all, if the students don't have a sense of who you are as a human, they will inevitably lose respect for you as a teacher. Music is also a way to build community and to share yourself as a teacher. It can be used to signal different transitions within the class as well as to serve as a writing prompt itself.
Music can be used to help control a classroom environment or to support the content within that class. There are many ways to trigger the benefits of music in, say, a Language Arts class, that doesn't require too much knowledge of music in general. One doesn't need Bach in the background to qualify as having used music.
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