The Rock 'n' Roll Classroom: Using Music to Manage Mood, Energy, and Learning

by Richard Allen, W. W. Wood

Overview

Pump up the volume to increase student learning!

Drawing on educational and neuroscientific research, the authors unlock the mystery of managing mood, energy, and learning with music in this one-of-a-kind handbook. No matter what subject or grade you teach, The Rock 'n' Roll Classroom provides all the notes you’ll need to shake up your classroom and engage each of your students, including:

• Playlists customized for specific purposes like reducing students’ stress or increasing focus
• Tips and tricks for accessing all your tunes easily and inexpensively
• Anecdotes from teachers about how they use music to manage everyday situations
• Sample lessons across grade levels

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452283869
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Learn more about Rich Allen's PD offerings

Richard Allen is an international consultant with more than 25 years experience coaching trainers and educators. Cofounder and president of Education Illustrated, he has taken the TrainSmart strategies beyond the United States and Canada to such diverse countries as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brunei, Russia, Jordan, and Brazil. Allen is also a popular keynote speaker at international conferences, and he facilitates moti­vational and teambuilding workshops.

Allen started his educational career as a high school math and drama teacher. In 1985, he became a lead facilitator for SuperCamp—an accelerated learning program for teens—and has since worked with more than 25,000 students worldwide. He completed his doctorate in educational psychology at Arizona State University, where he studied how the human brain receives, processes, and recalls information—knowledge that informs all aspects of his training strategies.
Willy Wood, MA in English, is a highly sought-after speaker on how the human brain learns and effective teaching practices. He speaks regularly in school districts across the United States and at national and international brain and education conferences, with a focus on sharing and modeling practical classroom approaches extrapolated from current cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Mr. Wood began his educational career as an English teacher, teaching high school and university level literature and writing classes for 14 years. He then served as the Communication Arts Consultant for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for five years. During his time at DESE, Mr. Wood wrote the state’s Curriculum Frameworks for Communication Arts, led the development of the state’s communication arts assessment, and started the state’s first intensive K-3 professional development model for improving reading instruction (the Missouri Reading Initiative). During his time as a teacher and state educational consultant, Mr. Wood became fascinated with exploring the biological underpinnings of effective teaching and learning. He left DESE in 2000 to become a full-time educational consultant and presenter so he could share his passion for brain-compatible teaching practices with educators around the world. He now serves as President of Open Mind Technologies, Inc., an educational consulting firm. The author lives in Missouri with his wife, Debbie, and has three sons. He can be reached at his email address: [e-mail].

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Music: A Powerful Teaching Tool
2. So Happy Together: Using Feel-Good Music to Manage Student Mood
3. Calming The Restless Natives: Using Music to Reduce Excess Energy and Stress
4. They Like to Move It (So Let Them): Using Pump-Up Music to Energize Students
5. Music to Work To: Using Background Music to Increase Focus on Individual Work
6. Come Together (Over Music): Using Background Music to Facilitate Group Activities
7. Learn It Through a Song and Remember It Forever: Using Music to Create Robust Memory of Content
8. Your Magical, Musical Bag of Tricks: Fun and Effective Management Strategies Using Music
9. Putting It All Together: Policies and Procedures, Hardware and Software, Planning and Implementation
Appendices
References
Index