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#TE-02-08 Becoming a Better Music Teacher

  • Categories
    Teaching
  • Duration
    20h
  • Total Enrolled
    4
  • Last Update
    September 18, 2020

About Course

ABRSM

Description

Learn new teaching methods to enhance your instrument or singing lessons

Vocal coaches and music teachers have an important role in improving their students’ ability to sing or play an instrument.

On this music teacher training course, you will learn to assess your current teaching strategies and look at new ways to engage your students during their lessons.

You’ll get instrument-specific advice and resources as well as guidance on how to plan music lessons within a broader curriculum.

You’ll gain the confidence to challenge your existing practices and identify weaknesses in your own teaching style in order to become a more effective music or singing teacher.

Who will you learn with?

John Holmes

I am the Chief Examiner and an Executive Director at ABRSM. Previously a teacher myself, I’m passionate about nurturing and encouraging the next generation of teachers and musicians.

 

Rachel Cook

Hi everyone, i’m an instrumental teacher who happens to also have a day job at ABRSM. I’m responsible for day to day management of this course and I look forward to meeting you!

 

 

Who developed the course?

ABRSM logo

The world’s leading provider of music exams, holding over 650,000 exams in over 90 countries each year. ABRSM makes significant donations towards music education initiatives around the world.

What Will I Learn?

  • Reflect on and evaluate your journey to teaching so far
  • Develop an understanding of a range of teaching and learning principles
  • Compare teaching and learning principles and develop your own teaching philosophy
  • Identify the core musical skills which need to be taught, considering how they inter-relate
  • Evaluate your own instrumental technique and assess how you approach teaching technique to your pupils
  • Explore the basis for motivation and how motivation is linked to progression
  • Develop an understanding of the role of assessment in progression
  • Assess your own teaching practice in the context of professional values and practice
  • Design a broad, individual learning plan for pupils with reference to short term goals
  • Engage with other teachers and contribute to discussion about professional development

Topics for this course

23 Lessons20h


Welcome!?

Welcome to this 5 week course designed to help you become a better music teacher. Let’s start by introducing ourselves on the discussion forum below.
WE CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU! DISCUSSION

Hello!00:2:59


Reflect on your current teaching?

Being a good teacher is about continuing self-appraisal and reflection. The following questionnaire will help to focus your reflection.
LET’S ANALYSE YOUR STARTING POINT ARTICLE

EVALUATING YOUR TEACHING PRACTICE VIDEO (03:06)00:03:06

REFLECT ON MY CURRENT TEACHING ARTICLE


Identifying a philosophical foundation for your teaching?

It is important to have a clear idea of how you approach teaching. What are the core principles that lie at the heart of your teaching?
MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VIDEO (04:38)00:04:38

MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VIDEO (07:52)00:07:52

MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY VIDEO (07:09)1:07:09

WHAT IS YOUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY? DISCUSSION

WE ASKED TEACHERS ABOUT THEIR PHILOSOPHY ARTICLE


Discovering specific learning and improvement areas?

Good teachers continually seek to improve their craft, their teaching. This might be finding areas that need to be addressed or seeking opportunities to be inspired by others. Start by reading other teacher’s own reflections.
TEACHER REFLECTIONS ARTICLE

EFFECTIVE TEACHING – SETTING TARGETS VIDEO (04:43)00:04:43

EFFECTIVE TEACHING – POSITIVE EXAMPLES VIDEO (08:53)00:08:53

EFFECTIVE TEACHING – AREAS TO ADDRESS VIDEO (04:36)00:04:36


Exploring the multi-faceted role of the teacher?

Adaptive teaching is an acquired skill. Reading the documents, seeing other teachers discuss their experience with pupils and how they changed or adapted their approach will increase your awareness of this important dimension
CASE STUDIES AND CONTEXTUAL STATEMENTS ARTICLE

WHY CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT DISCUSSION


Engaging with a holistic approach to teaching?

Take some time read around the subject of what constitutes good teaching practice. After this, reconsider how you might now approach differently the teaching of an early grade piece to one of your pupils.
PUTTING TEACHING INTO A BROADER MUSICAL CONTEXT ARTICLE

CONTRASTING TEACHING AND LEARNING STYLES VIDEO (08:30)00:08:30


Devising teaching strategies and ideas?

Understanding the core skills a teacher needs to facilitate effective learning will raise your awareness of possible areas for self-development. These can then be addressed by devising further, different approaches.
LESSON OBSERVATION 1 VIDEO (14:37)00:14:37

LESSON OBSERVATION 2 VIDEO (04:10)00:04:10

LESSON OBSERVATION 3 VIDEO (11:41)00:11:41


Contextualising and prioritising a pupils’ areas for development?

Sometimes a problem is simply technical – relating to finger control for example, but many other musical/knowledge-based challenges will occur. You need to know exactly where the challenge lies, in order to address it effectively.
PIANO AND DOUBLE BASS EXAMPLES FOR TEMPLATE WORKSHEET AUDIO00:00:00


Balancing priorities; notation, technique and interpretation?

Effective teaching assessment and feedback rely on us having an appropriately balanced perspective. Where each aspect is important, how can they all be taken equally into account? We will now consider two examples.
Two example performances of Nimrod by Elgar00:00:00

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Frank Murphy

2 months ago

This is a very useful for all the readers of vocal coaches and music teachers, especially me, and I especially like a section, such as how to improve students’ singing and playing ability.

As a result of this course, my music teaching experience will be much stronger than today, which will help me a lot in my teaching career as a music teacher.

If you want to be a good music teacher, then don’t miss this music teacher training course, it will take you to find new ways to attract your students to the more intensive courses.

This course allows me to have a deeper reflection on the existing teaching methods and find out the weaknesses in my own teaching style, so as to become a more effective music or singing teacher. I love it.

USD$130 USD$29

Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

Target Audience

  • This course is for all music and instrument teachers and vocal coaches.
  • A music teacher training suited both for private teachers as well as teachers working in schools, music trusts or music academies.

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