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Contents for Music Teacher
FEATURES
- The brightest classroom music technology ideas
- Teaching music with apps
- Making digital portfolios for your students
- Teaching keyboard: a guide for piano teachers
- The story of Music Education Expo, the biggest ever UK conference for music teachers
- Is teaching parents alongside their children a good idea?
- Exploring developments in teacher training for secondary music teachers
REGULARS
- Q&A: Leslie East, ABRSM's new chief executive
- Instrumental teachers' bible: devising lessons
- Core repertoire: Debussy's piano preludes
- Transition ideas bank: musical workshopping
- Clinic: advice for pupils' parents on learning the piano
- My Music Education: Peter Dunkley, former chief executive, Northamptonshire Music Trust
Editorial
LEADERSHIP MATTERS
One of my first jobs when I joined MT as deputy editor in 2009 was to attend the launch of the then Labour government’s Year of Music, an event characterised by the kind of talk that people working in music education hear often: that music is wonderful, and that it develops young people’s literacy, numeracy, self-esteem and much else besides.
But who remembers Labour’s Year of Music now? Four years on I have come to believe that such familiar rhetoric is not always enough to drive home the message that music is worth investing in. Long term, the music education sector needs to find new, more creative ways to communicate the vital message that music matters. But how?
One of my first jobs when I joined MT as deputy editor in 2009 was to attend the launch of the then Labour government’s Year of Music, an event characterised by the kind of talk that people working in music education hear often: that music is wonderful, and that it develops young people’s literacy, numeracy, self-esteem and much else besides.
But who remembers Labour’s Year of Music now? Four years on I have come to believe that such familiar rhetoric is not always enough to drive home the message that music is worth investing in. Long term, the music education sector needs to find new, more creative ways to communicate the vital message that music matters. But how?
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