Why Band? Why Music?

Why Band? Why Music?

Music helps educate the whole student

Music education shapes the way our students understand themselves and the world around them. It allows for deep engagement with learning. It nurtures assets and skills that are critical to future success including creativity, curiosity, determination and motivation. In other words, music helps develop students beyond their scores on standardized tests.

Emotional Awareness

Students learn to express themselves in multiple ways and become more sensitive to the preferences and feelings of others.

Reflective Learning

Students reflect on failures and successes throughout the creative process and derive a sense of their own competencies, interests and challenges.

Process Orientation

Students develop the ability to consistently refine their thinking as part of the creative process, developing an ability to re-evaluate goals and objectives and if needed adjust their approach to the objective.

Decision Making

Through both the creative and reflective learning process, students gain greater capacity to question, interpret and influence their own lives.

Grit

In a high-level performance environment, hard work and dedicated practice predict success far more than innate ability. Music performance offers opportunities to fail. Students learn the value of persistence and working hard for an uncertain outcome.

Multiple Ways of Knowing

Music study promotes fluency in knowledge systems beyond the linguistic and mathematical, enabling a deeper and broader understanding of our world and the human experience.

Source: National Associate for Music Education