MUSIC IS

UNIVERSAL

Isabella Battiata
Description

• Original plan:
– Volunteering at a government-funded
educational care facility to help feed and clothe
the children present at that establishment
• Adapted plan:
– Tutoring music students online who are stuck at
home during this quarantine
Decision
to tutor
CORONAVIRUS LOVE OF MUSIC
PANDEMIC

ACCESSIBILITY
 Implementation

I contacted my old middle He immediately gave me

I have 13 years of
school band teacher, music to sort, and a list of
experience playing the
David Wing, and asked student's names (trumpet
trumpet, so this was an
him what I could do to players) that needed the
easy back-up plan for me
help with his students most help
Tutoring Lesson

• My specialty is Jazz, so I mainly helped the Jazz

ensemble online
• We started with scales and then moved onto
the concert pieces
– The Jazz Police – Gordon Goodwin
– Downtown Tango – Rick Hirsch
– Steep and Deep – Jeff Jarvis
 How it
relates to There’s only so much we all can do for

CST our communities from home right now

– especially those of us with little ones
to take care of

I chose online music lessons because

it brings some type of stress relief to
these kids
How it relates • Give alms to the poor

to Corporal – “Donate money to

organizations that have the

Works of ability to provide support

and services for those in

Charity
need” (United States
Conference of Catholic
Bishops)
 Reflection

Music plays such an important role in my life

I love helping those in need, especially friends and family

I will continue these lessons well beyond this project assignment!

 What I’ve
HOW TO TALK TO
PEOPLE
HOW TO ORGANIZE
LESSONS
Learned

HOW TO PROVIDE
PEACE IN THIS TIME OF
CHAOS
My advice
Put your all into this!

Pick a project that has

meaning to you

Don’t Rush
References
• http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/ho
w-we-teach/new-evangelization/jubilee-of-mer
cy/the-corporal-works-of-mercy.cfm

• https://ccsww.org/about-us/catholic-social-teac
hing/

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2708
47006_Critical_Thinking_and_Music_Educatio
n
• David Wing, Director of Bands at Woodland
Middle School,
david.wing@sarasotacountyschools.net