How Integrating Different Music Traditions in the Classroom Can Enrich Learning

Culturally significant music can enhance lessons across several disciplines while building classroom unity.

The claim-evidence-reasoning method promotes critical thinking by giving students a framework for solving multistep problems.

Teachers can use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to generate rich math tasks and differentiate instruction.

With shared emphases on inquiry, student voice, and choice, PBL and International Baccalaureate methods can combine to facilitate meaningful learning.

Teaching students that rigor is inextricably linked to the learning process helps them grow to be confident learners.

Providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression creates opportunities for all students to learn.

When students assess each other’s work, they can provide valuable feedback that leads to growth in their writing skills.

Instead of addressing a single piece of writing, elementary teachers can focus on students’ overall abilities and needs.

The key point for school leaders, this teacher believes, is to focus on collaboration, inquiry, and active listening.

When students get to move, play, and be creative while learning to spell, the lessons are more engaging—and memorable.