Integrate with Integrity - Music Across the Elementary Curriculum

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A guide for constructing arts-infused curriculum. Reader-friendly, research-based, practical answers to those tough questions about transforming schools through true integration. Transparencies cover discipline of music, connection, correlation, integration, themes, and materials tree. "...few have delineated the differences between integration and mere connection or provided examples of integration as clearly as Snyder does. ...lays out a non-nonsense model of cross-curricular study in three levels—connection, correlation, and integration." —Ed Duling, Bowling Green State University in General Music Today, Spring '97 Music Educators National Conference "...approaches the often complex theoretical and philosophical bases of contemporary curriculum design through well-thought and constructed analyses which enable the classroom teacher to immediately see the practical applications of these theories to the everyday classroom. ...readers are led through a series of model lessons providing hands-on experience in application of the principles of the integrated curriculum to their own teaching, whatever level or type of instruction." —J. Bryan Burton, Westchester State University Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Is Music important? How do you know? Chapter 2 The Discipline of Music Chapter 3 Why Integration? Why Now? Chapter 4 Current Practice: Connection, Correlation and Integration Chapter 5 Models of Connections Chapter 6 Models of Correlations Chapter 7 Integration Lesson Plans Chapter 8 Model for an Integrated Unit: Weavers and Weaving Chapter 9 Connection, Correlation, Integration Revisited: Mexico/Bate, Bate and Las Mananitas Chapter 10 Thinking About Themes Chapter 11 Developing Individual Pods Chapter 12 Issues and Opportunities Conclusion Glossary of Terms Bibliography of Selected Readings