Chloe Nanos

CIED 1003-901
9-8-16
1. Speaking Truth to Power: Reclaiming the Conversation on Education
a. By Jason L. Endacott and Christian Z. Goering
b. Published in May 2014 by English Journal
c. http://search.proquest.com/openview/af26b9baebb9d3a16f692a32d93f1014/1?pqorigsite=gscholar
2. "Like the Whole Class has Reading Problems": A Study of Oral Reading Fluency
Activities in a High Intervention Setting
a. By Christian Z. Goering and Kimberly F. Baker
b. Published in 2010 by Dwight Schar College of Education in the journal of
American Secondary Education
c. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41406183?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
3. Exploring the Role of Music in Secondary English and History Classrooms through
Personal Practical Theory
a. By Goering, Christian Z.; Burenheide, Bradley J.
b. Published in 2010 by the SRATE Journal
c. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ948697
The beginning of this article describes how two different classrooms in a school had
positive experiences while relating subject material to music. The first classroom was an English
class, and they created a soundtrack to the Great Gatsby. The class came to the conclusion that
the assignment seemed less like schoolwork and more like a fun project. The second class was a
history class learning about the civil war. To kick off their unit they learned a song that a civil

war soldier used to sing. This helped the class better understand what it was like to be living
during that time period, and it helped them remember information about the civil war. There has
been a lot of positive feedback about using music in the classroom, but there has not been much
research to prove that it does make a positive impact. The authors of this article are writing for
the purpose of showing others that music does encourage learning in school.
To help show that music does improve overall student learning, Personal Practical
Theories (PPT) were created. The article explains that PPTs are the foundation of the idea that
educators have teaching methods that work the best for them, and they teach in a way that the
students benefit from the most. The PPTs have three guidelines to best develop your teaching
methods, they include recognizing your own beliefs, how the beliefs connect with the material
that needs to be taught, and applying that to the classroom. The authors agreed that they believe
teaching begins with the community of educators in the school, and together they developed
teaching methods based on community efforts. In their specific teaching community, one thing
they all had in common was a passion for music. They explain that they all valued music because
it gave students the opportunity to express themselves.
One section of this article that the authors focus on is the benefit of having music
incorporated into their curriculum. There are many different ways that music improves learning,
one of these ways is that it helps students understand and remember information. They are able
to connect the material they learned to a song, which improves memory. Another way it is
beneficial is that it connects the information they learn in school to their life outside of the
classroom. Music also helps students who are more reserved express their thoughts and opinions
in a way they may not have been able to before. Lastly, music in the classroom helps set the tone
and style for they way that a teacher presents new information to a class.