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
Advisor
Dr. Alaine Reschke-Hernández
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
