Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
4-16-2023
Year of Publication
2023
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Music (MM)
College
Fine Arts
Department/School/Program
Music
Faculty
Dr. Alaine Reschke-Hernández
Faculty
Dr. Lance Brunner
Abstract
Music in early childhood can provide valuable support for developing social emotional learning in preschool children. Preschool teachers often lack training in how to incorporate music-based activities to support social emotional learning in the classroom. This thesis involves three steps. First, I developed the materials for one-day training that presents music-based experiences for social emotional learning in preschool. The training materials are centered around two learning objectives: 1) Identify at least 1 music-based experience that can support each of the five SEL competencies for children, and 2) increase knowledge of music-based experiences to support SEL in the preschool classroom. Second, I gathered content expert feedback from three individuals. The experts were an early childhood music provider, a local preschool teacher, and a nationally certified music educator. Finally, I examined the feedback from the content experts and refined the training materials.
Throughout this project I used the CASEL framework and concepts from anti-racist social emotional justice learning to help inform training materials and refinement. Results of this project expanded our knowledge of the benefits of preschool teacher training for music-based social emotional learning. The refinement of the training materials provided insight for potential future research on preschool teacher training and music-based approaches to social emotional learning.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2023.337
Funding Information
- University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts (Graduate Student Research/Creative Activity and Travel Program)
- Funding year: 8/1/2022
Recommended Citation
Sheridan, Alaina K., "A BRIEF TEACHER TRAINING ON USING MUSIC TO SUPPORT SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN PRESCHOOL: TRAINING MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT" (2023). Theses and Dissertations--Music. 229.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/229
