Category: ReLearnMusicTeaching Series
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Fostering creativity
Post forty-eight in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week ten of the collaborative blogging and we continue with chapter eight. Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser In terms of other conditions that I’ve seen enhance creativity in the classroom, I would add – ‘freedom’. I guess, in many ways, freedom could be seen as a…
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The process of creativity
Post forty-seven in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week ten of the collaborative blogging and we continue with chapter eight. Mike Morgan @MikeMMusicED I feel in my own creative process I have experienced each process. I have responded to briefs and started to form and explore a “problem” when writing a piece…
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Creative witness
Post forty-six in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week nine of the collaborative blogging and we continue with chapter eight. Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser “What have you witnessed in the music classroom thus far that you consider to be evidence of creativity?” I believe creativity is all around us, especially in the music…
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Creative justifications
Post forty-five in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week nine of the collaborative blogging and we begin chapter eight. Mike Morgan @MikeMMusicED I feel creativity is something which comes through experience and confidence. We need to give every student the opportunities to develop their competence in this. I do feel slightly uncomfortable…
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Teacher behaviours
Post forty-four in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week nine of the collaborative blogging and we begin chapter seven. Teacher behaviours that will support students in developing appropriate and effective learning behaviours in the music classroom. Mike Morgan @MikeMMusicED At my previous school, I was lead on developing our learning model. This…
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Learning behaviours
Post forty-three in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week nine of the collaborative blogging and we begin chapter seven. Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser When asked to consider the learning behaviours of two pupils whom I currently teach, two immediately sprung to mind. Both took an equal length of time to form the learning…
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Learned behaviours
Post forty-two in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week nine of the collaborative blogging and we begin chapter seven. Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser If I try to recall my educational upbringing, specifically in relation to the learning behaviour environment, then my eyes are immediately drawn to the words on the outer edge of…
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On best behaviour
Post forty-one in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week nine of the collaborative blogging and we begin chapter seven. Mike Morgan @MikeMMusicED I feel there is a better way to describe the behaviours. While the Didau’s comments could be considered rules (something the pupils should do) the learning behaviours could be considered…
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Checking in – The blog so far
Post forty in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is week eight of the collaborative blogging and today we pause before starting chapter seven to check in with how the blogging has gone so far. Mike Morgan @MikeMMusicED I think the blogging process has been a great CPD process. I have read and researched…
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Reflections on evaluation
Post thirty-nine in our (re)learning to teach music series. This is the first week responding to the tasks in chapter six in Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School. This is week eight of the collaborative blogging. Mike Morgan @MikeMMusicED I always wondered what a ‘non-musical’ task consists of in music lessons. When I…
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