Music smart learners, individuals with musical learning style, teachers with reasonable musical intelligence (MI) learn and get trained best when taught using spoken instruction and auditory media and spoken content with sensitivity to tone, rhythm, pitch, and melody.
It needs to be understood that MI isn’t just about music but feeling reponse to sensitivity to the instrumental sounds, human voice or vocal sounds, audio patterns, and sounds in the physical, social and natural environment.
ABCs of Teaching for MI
A: Add sounds of instruments intermittantly with spoken classroom instruction
B: Best way to teach for MI try to musicalize text with by including language arts for at least one-fourth of class session
C: Create musical compositions and performances to illustate key concepts periodically
D: Demostrate how to compose songs, pattern poems, micro verses, rap lyrics and folk music styles
E: Evolving oneself with voice training, spoken word art and phonatic skills
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