Music Education Case Study

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Brent Kyle I. Billedo Andre Dominic Peralta
English 27 September 22, 2016

Some students in the Philippines finds Music Education in Public school inefficient.

Background on the Philippine Music Education

Music education is a field of education that deals with the teaching of music and as well as learning it. Music Education improves student’s attitude and skills towards the field of music. (Borromeo, 2015). In the Philippines music has been taught as early as kindergarten, thus usually all Filipino student have music background. The study aims to enhance the quality of music education in the current curriculum especially targeting the early years of education of the youth.
However, Borromeo (2015) also stated that the …show more content…

Philippine Education was influenced by the colonization of other races throughout history. Public school is a lot cheaper than private schools, but the quality of education has a difference.
Music teaching Strategies A teaching strategy is the method used to deliver information in the classroom, online, or in some other medium. There is no one best strategy; teachers can select from several instructional strategies for just about any subject. Also teaching strategies should vary depending on the discussion is all about.
Activity
Teachers should provide motivational activity for the students to be excited about the topic. Szymborska (1996) said that, there is, has been and will always be certain group of people whom inspiration visits. Someone or some other people will always be inspiring people. In sum educators are the key to open the close minds of his/her students with regards to the topic to be discussed and so the teacher should have motivational games for the benefit of giving students …show more content…

Thus, all the students in the classroom has variety of learning styles so the teacher has to provide an activity which relates to the teaching of music that targets their best way of learning. It is one way of making them interested to the topic or to the music education.
Involving students to community Involving students to the community is one way of making them realize that music is not limited within the four walls of the classroom but engaging them to the community. The teacher must encourage their students to join some music related activities e.g. orchestra, choir, rock band and etc. Basically this is the best application educators can provide for their learners to be more into the field of music
Suggestions to the Educators Educators of music education must be a graduate of education major in music or generally graduate of music and arts. This will provide good quality of music education. Also teachers must apply the different strategies or they innovate some strategies that will encourage and motivates students to learn more about

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