Music therapy has been one of the most essential methods of healing any kind of emotional overwhelming. Scientifically, music therapy is a way out of anger management that helps to build positive relationships.
Young learners, these days, undergo a rollercoaster ride while dealing with emotions. Based on various experiences, music has been introduced to the pre-school curriculum for social-emotional learning (SEL). Teaching young learners via music is one of the most effective methods of emotional self-regulation in them.
There are several platforms where the top-notch quality of music can be discovered like, Youtube music, Spotify, etc. Teachers can encourage students to listen to the music and to try to understand the deep meaning behind them. Besides, recordings of the chirping of birds, eerie sounds found in the forest, flowing water, and sea waves have performed remarkably in calming the kids.
Music heals:
Nursery teaching is absolutely difficult. Taking care of young learners and satisfying their curiosities is literally beyond comprehension. Kids, due to various reasons, now feel lonely and helpless. To enhance relationship skills in children, nursery teacher training courses have introduced music as a part of the lesson plan.
Nursery teachers during their training period are taught how to inculcate positive behaviors in children by using music. They are entitled to learn the process of using music to develop the academic, social, and emotional needs of the children.
Besides, calming the mind, music ensures an added amount of focus from students' end. For example, songs like Goodbye songs for kids, Good morning songs for kids, Months of the year song, etc. have actually elevated the positive energy and enthusiasm of kids. The academic lectures sometimes seem boring and mundane to them. Learning with music actives next-level energy in children.
In the case of students with special abilities like autism, ADHD, down syndrome, and LD, music plays an integral role in social-emotional learning (SEL). These special kids often confront an emotional break and a meltdown occurs. Autism calming sensory Meltdown Remedy soothing visuals are great music that helps gifted kids to pacify their nerves.
There is a brilliant technique that a nursery teacher can apply to make sure that the specially-abled children are enjoying the mainstream classroom to the fullest. This method requires a piece of paper and a box of crayons. He/she can ask the children to draw anything that comes to their mind while listening to the music.
This method has worked with uttermost perfection to divert the excited state of minds of the children into an artistic one.
There is a very popular song called 'If you happy and you know it clap your hands’. This song is a masterpiece, full of beats and always spreads a positive vibe. Young learners can feel happy as soon as they listen to this song. In fact, the educator can ask the students to dance a bit to this rhythm. The level of happiness will know no boundary!
Kids should also understand what it feels like to be sad. Special kinds of music are also designed to give them an impression of unhappiness, agony, and so on. One can find a song album 'Feelings Song for Children Emotion Songs for Kids with Words’ by The Learning Station' on youtube which deals with sad songs.
It is also important to make students comfortable with the cross-cultural system from a young age. They must be socially aware of different cultures and respect all languages. This is helpful for long-time purposes. Down the line of 15-20 years when these kids will grow up and work in any organization, they might it a diverse team.
If they start to enjoy different languages from childhood, coping up with a diverse culture in the near future will be a piece of cake. What could be a more interesting approach than music in this situation? Songs in different languages like Korean, Brazilian, Nigerian, etc. are kind of cool and catchy, for real!
Such songs when are introduced to the children have got a classic response. The kids love listening to music in a different language and eventually end up showing interest in different languages.
Thus music has always taken care of the emotional stability of human beings and now children are also a part of the tribe. It is playing a great role in early childhood education. The nursery teachers and early childhood educators, therefore, interact with multiple music training sessions during the teacher training courses.
Written By : Sonal Agrawal
