Interactive materials used in the primary and middle school music education
Interactive materials used in the primary and middle school music education

Summary/Abstract: Music education has always been one of the most important and crucial means of developing the children’s cognitive and creative abilities through the use of necessary elements such as children songs, rhythmic games and exercises, the inclusion of body percussion, the use of audio-visual materials and other helpful online music resources. This research will present a pedagogical approach destined for small groups of pupils engaged in music theory and choir subjects, belonging to the 1st grade and up to the 5th grade. After observing other international teachers’ approaches towards the music education subject, I got driven by the idea of implementing creativity and interdisciplinarity into the music classroom, thus assuring interactive strategies of teaching. In order to achieve that particular goal, I have decided to add various new materials, gathered as a result of a personal research in the children’s international music repertoire domain, all with the purpose of developing the children’s abilities of instrumental and/ or rhythmic practice, studying the influence of children’s movies and cartoons on the pupils and adding foreing languages into the lessons. The flexible materials described in full detail throughout the paper were extracted from the Disney universe and the international folk repertoire. All the songs are applicable to more than just one grade and have different options of use. The pedagogical aspects, the feedback received and the cognition gains resulted by learning these songs will be discussed further.

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