You may have your own opinions about rap and hip-hop, but it’s a fact: kids-these-days are listening and loving it. Use that to your advantage in the classroom. The resources on this website will hopefully supply you with the basic rubrics, assignment-sheets, incentives, and resources necessary to host a rap battle in your own classroom. If implemented in a structured, focused manner, student rap battles can be a fun, manageable, creative way to engender enthusiastic student participation and expression of content-mastery.
Meaningful student-created rap can give kids a healthy outlet of self-expression; empower students with an intuitive means of displaying content mastery; and provide teachers with an additional tool of assessment extending their lessons beyond classroom walls.
Meaningful student-created rap can give kids a healthy outlet of self-expression; empower students with an intuitive means of displaying content mastery; and provide teachers with an additional tool of assessment extending their lessons beyond classroom walls.
Embedded below are two TED talks on the subject of using rap to inspire and engage students. I, myself, have found both of these videos to be inspiring as well: