Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Becoming a Better Music Teacher
Your role is crucial to the development of pupils’ musical skills, knowledge and understanding. This course provided opportunities to explore teaching ideas and approaches, reflect on and invigorate your own professional practice, and become an even more inspiring and effective music teacher.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
John Holmes
Chief Examiner
ABRSM
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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
Syllabus
- Assess your current teaching
- Explore and evaluate teaching and learning principles
- Identify core musical skills
- Evaluate your own technique
- Develop a range of strategies for teaching technique
- Explore links between motivation and progression
- Increase your awareness of professional values and practice
- Design a curriculum and devise lesson plans
- Produce a personal development plan
Issued on 26th July 2019
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This certificate represents proof of learning. It is not a formal qualification, degree, or part of a degree.