Performance Practice and Reflection

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Practice your observation and teaching techniques
• Refine your performance technique on your chosen instrument

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop your teaching styles, techniques and methods through research and observation
• reflect on teaching styles, techniques and methods

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• techniques, styles and methods of one-to-one performance teaching.
• your chosen instrument with a view to transferring that knowledge to others

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• refine your observation skills and be able to comment constructively on others' work
• present your findings and experience to an audience in a formal situation

One-to-one tutorials on Music teaching techniques, styles and methods

discussion of literature associated with Music education

Observation of workshops by professional musicians and teachers on a variety of teaching methods in a range of genres and styles to help you develop your teaching style, techniques and methods

Teaching and learning methods

Tutorials

Workshops

Individual study

Instrumental teaching

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Gordon Cox, Robin Stevens eds. (2010). The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: Cross-Cultural Historical Studies of Music in Compulsory Schooling. Bloomsbury.

John Finney, ‎Felicity Laurence (2013). MasterClass in Music Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning. Bloomsbury.

Swanwick, Keith (1988). Music, Mind and Education. Routledge.

Fautley, Martin (2010). Assessment in Music Education. Oxford University Press.

Assessment strategy

Using video recordings of lessons, assessments involve analysis and reflection on instrumental/vocal teaching, the techniques deployed, impact on learning and how these relate to your own teaching practice.

Your work will be submitted in the form of written assignments and presentations.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal