Build an outstanding Key Stage 3 Music curriculum
The new Music national curriculum aims to provide pupils with "an understanding of our rich national heritage" (DfE 2013). This presents fresh opportunities and challenges for Music teachers with an emphasis on building skills from the Primary curriculum in areas which include solo and ensemble performance, improvisation, composition in addition to developing an understanding of the history of Music.
What will the course aim to do?
- The new programme of study for Music: what will this look like in my classroom?
- Developing a love of music: strategies for engaging pupils at KS3
- Connecting pupils to the great composers through practical music making
- Music Technology: using digital media to demonstrate progress
- How can we build performance into every lesson?
- Exploring composition tools using world music
- Join the discussion: giving pupils the freedom to develop & share ideas about the Music they create
- Creative assessment in Music: feeding back practically in Music
The course is highly practical and delegates will engage in activities that demonstrate teaching strategies that can secure good outcomes relating to the new programme of study.
This course is for:
- Teachers of Music at KS3/4
- Heads of Music and curriculum leaders.
Presenter profile
Ben Jose is Head of Community Music and lead for Technology in the Arts at the Queen Elizabeth's School in Wimborne Minster, Dorset. He leads regular ITT and CPD training sessions which focus on areas such as behaviour management, assessment, inclusion, differentiation, planning, questioning and use of technology. Ben enjoys researching new ideas and is a keen education blogger. He was featured in The Guardian as one of ten "top teachers" to follow on twitter. (http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/sep/08/music-teachers-follow-twitter).
Feedback from teachers on Ben’s course
An excellent course – lots of
really interesting and relevant ideas.
A really great, inspiring day.
Thank you very much.