Artful-Playful-Mindful

Over the last half-century teachers and their students have enthusiastically embraced the siple, but profound, idea that we learn music best by making it ourselves. By such means we achieve demonstrable outcomes that make the case for music as a crucial component of the education of all students. "Artful-Playful-Mindful" embodies this approach with a curriculum model built on rhythm and pitch elements that inspire uou land your students to make musicJ(artful), to make up music (playful), and to make sense of music (mindful). You will find that, while written from an Orff jSchulwerk perspective, this book provides appealing materials and stimulating ideas to engage all music educators. You'll discover that while your students are participating in group music activities,l they are thinking and behaving in ways that relate not only to learning about music, but to learning about anything.