Jan Richards, Ed.D.

National University

Ontario, CA

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Music/Art

  • Pandora.com

    Adds music to your classroom. Use whatever kind of music you need to augment your lessons.

  • Songs for Teaching

    Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages.

    Here is an example: they have the words and a music clip for “Follow the Drinking Goard.” Check it out!

  • Tom Chapin--Not on the Test

    This satirical song addresses the loss of music and art in our schools in our quest for higher testing scores. Here’s what he says:

    “Music, art, drama and sports – these are what kept me involved when I was in school. And these very things, that make a teacher’s (and student’s) job easier and more rewarding, are what’s been cut from curriculums across the country.

    Now we are teaching by rote again – where the test, and only the test, becomes the reason to teach and study."