Secondary School Music Teachers Effect On Student Attrition And Student Retention

Introduction A top concern of all secondary school music teachers is that they all face the issues of being able to reduce the attrition rate and retain their music students. This literature review focuses on the instrumental programs of both middle schools and high schools. Teachers depend on students remaining throughout the program in order to better their ensembles and ensure job security. As such, it is necessary for music teachers to seek out the reason behind students’ motivation to remain and the methods teachers employ to help students continue with music. There are many contributing factors that cause students to dropout of their music classes as well as many factors that contribute to students staying in their music classes. After researching the causes of attrition and developing a plan to retain students, music teachers might be better able to retain their students and keep the attrition …show more content…
The purpose of this literature review is to summarize research findings addressing the research and the related literature of students’ and teachers’ perceptions of music class dropouts and methods that promote student retention and keep attrition rates an