Thursday, January 24, 2013

Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts


Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts  <=== click here to read the article

You don’t find school reformers talking much about how we need to train more teachers in the arts, given the current obsession with science, math, technology and engineering (STEM), but here’s a list of skills that young people learn from studying the arts. They serve as a reminder that the arts — while important to study for their intrinsic value — also promote skills seen as important in academic and life success.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

More Evidence Music Training Boosts Brainpower

More Evidence Music Training Boosts Brainpower

A German study finds young children who took instrumental music lessons did better than their peers on verbal memory tests.


Want your child to get better and better with words? Put a musical instrument in his or her hands.
That’s the implication of a new paper from Germany, which confirms and augments research conducted in Canada, and Hong Kong. Across cultures, it appears, training on a musical instrument improves kids’ verbal memory.