Full Description
A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School provides valuable support, guidance and creative ideas for student teachers, mentors and practising teachers who want to develop their music teaching. Written to accompany the successful textbook Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School, it will help you understand important current developments and explore new possibilities for teaching and learning.
Focusing on teaching music musically, the book explores musical learning through placing pupils at the centre of a musical experience. Considering the revised KS3 curriculum and the 14--19 agenda in music, it also seeks to broaden the perspectives of music teachers through engaging with collaborative practice, transitions and cross-curricular work. Key issues explored include:
personalising musical learning
teaching creatively and promoting creativity
approaches to using ICT in the classroom
musical collaboration with other adults
assessment for learning in music
making connections with other subjects.
Using practical examples and tasks, this book will help you critically examine the way in which children learn music. It is an invaluable resource for those involved in teaching music who are seeking to develop their practical and theoretical understanding.
Contents
Contributors Series editors' preface Introduction Part 1 Musical learning 1. Personalising learning in music education 2. Musical teaching and learning in 14-19 education Part 2 Developing musical pedagogy 3. Cultural understanding 4. Teaching and learning for critical thinking and understanding 5. Teaching creatively 6. The integration of ICT in the music classroom 7. Assessment for learning in music Part 3 Broadening your perspectives 8. Continuing pupils' experience of singing and instrumental learning from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 9. Musical collaborations with other adults 10. The integration of music with other subject disciplines, particularly other art forms Bibliography Index
