Unit A: Instrumental/Vocal Pedagogy 2: provides support for Teaching Practice, preparing students for the practical application of core pedagogical principles in their instrumental/vocal teaching. It focuses in particular on teacher behaviours and teacher competences, highlighting the roles of teacher as planner and organiser, communicator and pedagogue, facilitator, artistic role model and reflective practitioner. The module integrates theory and practice, and microteaching activities provide a forum for discussion and analysis around students’ teaching practice experience. The Principal Study lecturer continues to contribute to the process of pedagogical development, supporting issues relating to pedagogical repertoire and instrument/voice specific matters in the individual Principal Study lesson.
Unit B: Educational Issues
This unit provides a forum for the exploration of current issues in music education. While the content will draw on current research and policy documents relating to education and the arts, there will be a particular emphasis on research within the field of instrumental/vocal learning and teaching. The aim of the module is to facilitate students in developing:
- their knowledge of such current issues in music education
- a critical and an analytical approach to interpreting the results of such research
This module takes place in the final semester of the course and therefore students are expected to draw on previous study and experience as learners and teachers and to synthesise their reflections on their experiences with analysis of current literature.
Core: Stage 4 Pedagogy
Option: No
Unit A: Instrumental/Vocal Pedagogy 2:
Teacher competences; planning and evaluation; learner factors; reflective journaling; verbal and non-verbal communication; teaching with technology; teacher as facilitator; discrimination/diagnosis and remediation; pedagogical perspectives on aspects of technique / technical exercises / repertoire; microteaching; guidelines and legislation relating to GDPR / health and safety / child protection.
Unit B: Educational Issues:
Much of the content will address current issues and research relating to instrumental/vocal music education. Topics will be chosen by the lecturer with due regard to the composition of the student group and to current issues. The syllabus will be built around journal articles, policy documents and publications produced by government bodies and other arts and education organisations.
Unit A: Instrumental/Vocal Pedagogy 2:
This module is delivered through weekly seminars, one for instrumental students and one for vocal students, with an emphasis on a discursive mode of learning / teaching. Performance and analysis of pedagogical repertoire is addressed as part of the Principal Study lesson. Microteaching activities, based around recorded excerpts from Teaching Practice lessons, enable students to integrate theory and practice, and reflect on, and evaluate, their own teaching and that of their peers.
Unit B: Educational Issues:
This module is taught through weekly seminars with an emphasis on a discursive mode of teaching/learning. Students will be expected to undertake independent study, participate in class discussion and give class presentations
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |