Weatherill.Music Therapy by Weatherill

Quote 1

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:16:42 UTC

"Studies have shown that students who play instruments or study the arts are often better in math and achieve higher grades in school than students who don't."

(Matthews 2)

Quote 2

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:19:51 UTC

"This has proven to relieve stress and can be a great form of therapy. In fact, music therapy has been useful in treating children and teens with autism, depression, and other disorders." (Matthews 3)

Quote 3

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:25:03 UTC

"At this time, playing relaxing and soothing music in the teacher's office can relieve the teacher's tension; while the high school graduating class teacher faces the student group of a relatively mature age, the psychological pressure of the teacher stems from students' performance problems, and most of them are reflections on their own teaching methods. At this time, playing some exciting music will help eliminate graduating teachers' negative emotions, thereby enhancing their teaching morale." (Mao)

Quote 4

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:28:32 UTC

"When asked about the top 10 impediments to academic performance, students cited
“stress” as number one, followed closely by “sleep difficulties, Internet use/
computer games, depression/anxiety disorder/SaD,” and “alcohol.” (Iarovici 6)

Quote 5

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:40:08 UTC

"Musicians have highly consistent auditory-neural responses," says Kraus. "It may be that musical training – with its emphasis on rhythmic skills – can exercise the auditory-system, leading to less neural jitter and stronger sound-to-meaning associations that are so essential to learning to read."

(Bergland)

Quote 6

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:46:44 UTC

"In school settings, music therapy is used to help students make progress in their educational program. Music therapists work with all students of all ages." (Swanson)

Connection

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:51:20 UTC

Both of these quotes demonstrate how music therapy can positively impact the school system. Incorporating music therapy into schools will impact both the teachers and the students.

Connection

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:54:28 UTC

Both of these quotes talk about stress. Students say that the number 1 hindrance to their academic performance is stress. Music therapy can help to relieve stress.

Connection

weath780 — 2025-02-19 20:57:29 UTC

These quotes demonstrate how music improves students' academic skills. Math and reading are both very important skills for both school and life in general.