Becoming a Better Music Teacher FutureLearn

Overview

On this Becoming a Better Music Teacher course from ABRSM by FutureLearn  you will learn to assess your current teaching strategies and look at new ways to engage your students during their lessons.

You’ll get instrument-specific advice and resources as well as guidance on how to plan music lessons within a broader curriculum.

You’ll gain the confidence to challenge your existing practices and identify weaknesses in your own teaching style in order to become a more effective music or singing teacher.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Reflect on and evaluate your journey to teaching so far

• Develop an understanding of a range of teaching and learning principles

• Compare teaching and learning principles and develop your own teaching philosophy

• Identify the core musical skills which need to be taught, considering how they inter-relate

• Evaluate your own instrumental technique and assess how you approach teaching technique to your pupils