Music learning is the cheapest diagnostic tool you can find!

I heard one of the best stories of advocacy in action the other day. It taught me that if you give educators information, nurture them and let them use their teaching superpower, great things can happen.

Let me backtrack a bit. I have the great privilege to work in a program in Western Sydney called Wired for Sound.

In a nutshell, it is a training program that gives generalist primary classroom teachers the skills, knowledge, and resources to deliver 10 minutes of music learning at the start of every literacy block.

The idea behind the program is simple. In order to improve the students’ language learning, we need to first prime the brain network which is most influential in language learning – the auditory processing network.

Music learning is the most effective way, both in terms of time and impact, to prime the brain for language learning.