The Importance Of Music In Music

Teachers and counselors today must have a big bag of tricks, filled with a variety of techniques to try to reach as many students as possible. A tool that is commonly overlooked or not given the seriousness that it deserves is music. Students of almost any age, grade level, or nationality can relate to melodies and songs in some way. Music can calm the uneasy, brighten the depressed, trigger a memory and have many possibilities in the field of education. In order to help students in and out of the classroom, counselors and teachers should use melodies and songs as tools to improve academic achievement, enrich the classroom and develop the overall aspects of the student. Music can be used in the classroom to help students achieve higher academic standards in a variety of areas. In research conducted by Foran he found that music can be influential to students in academic areas such as expansion of linguistics, writing and grammar (2009). This is very beneficial and should be taken seriously in order to help students reach greater academic

In almost any song, there is a common factor, which is that they almost all have lyrics. Gladding, Newsome, Binkley, and Henderson conducted research on how song lyrics can be used as a therapeutic tool for counselors to use with their clients (2008). Everyone knows that music can provoke emotions, so it is no wonder that songs can be used to help others in their emotional journey. In 2008, Song lyrics were found to be beneficial to clients, by allowing the client to “reveal emotions… recognize where they are and where they want to be…universalize the experiences…[and remain] focused on restoration, recovery or healing,” (Gladding et al., p. 217). Schools, in the present not only are responsible for student’s academic accomplishments, but also their mental health. Music has now become a tool that counselors can use to help students who are struggling in a variety of