MIOSM Facts

1 Learning to sing and play instruments gives students a sense of pride for their achievements.
2 Students of music can be more emotionally developed, with empathy towards other cultures.
3 Students who perform music tend to have higher self esteem and are better at coping with anxiety.
4 Students who practice with musical instruments can improve hand-eye coordination.
5 Performing a steady beat consistently and with accuracy improves coordination needed for sports.
6 Performing a steady beat consistently and with accuracy improves students' abilities to decipher cadence in speech.
7 Musical training helps develop language and reasoning.
8 Children can develop their math and pattern-recognition skills with the help of musical education.
9 Students who have experience with music performance score higher on the SAT (one report indicates 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math).
10 Musicians have fine-tuned auditory skills.
11 Students of music can better detect meaningful, information-bearing elements in sounds, like emotional meaning in a baby's cry.
12 Students who practice music can have better auditory attention, and pick out predictable patterns from surrounding noise.
13 Music builds one's imagination and intellectual curiosity.
14 Introducing music in the early childhood years can help foster a positive attitude towards learning and curiosity.
15 An enjoyable subject like music can keep students interested and engaged at school.
16 Music is the fabric of our society, and music can shape abilities and character.
17 Singing has many physical benefits, like improving posture, the immune system, and mental alertness.
18 Student musicians are constantly using their memory to perform, and having this skill of memorization benefits their educational career for a lifetime.
19 The left side of the brain is better developed with music, and songs can help imprint information on young minds.
20 Learning music promotes craftsmanship, and students learn to want to create good work instead of mediocre work.
21 Students can fight stress by learning to play music.
22 Music can be relaxing and can help students learn to self regulate.
23 Investing in creative education prepares students for the 21st century workforce.
24 The new economy has created more artistic careers, and students of music will be more prepared to succeed in a creative economy.
25 By studying music, students develop their 21st century skills like creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication.
26 Being in choir or band helps students learn teamwork and comradery.
27 Performing a musical piece teaches students how to take risks and deal with fear, like stage fright.
28 Musical education develops better communication skills for students.
29 Students of music have higher levels of self-confidence.
30 Students who study music can improve their spatial intelligence, which allows them to perceive the world accurately, form mental pictures, and helps with advance mathematics.
31 Singing raises the levels of endorphins in the body, and can improve mood.