Teaching GCSE Music Musically: The Essential Principles to Maximise the Musical Potential of All Your Students
Course Code: T0096
£249.00
ABOUT THIS COURSE
We are pleased to offer this NEW GCSE Music course for 2024, led by Simon Toyne and designed for all GCSE Music teachers, regardless of which exam specification is being followed. The aims and purpose of this NEW GCSE Music course is to enrich and extend curriculum perspectives placing teaching music musically at the central core of the GCSE curriculum ( also the KS3 curriculum where the knowledge, and skills for GCSE are developed and honed). The course will include all three components of the major exam boards, and particular emphasis will be on effective, motivational strategies to teach the key skills of appraising, listening, including Unfamiliar extracts, building composing skills and building performance skills through class lessons to make for a vibrant, meaningful and fulfilling two year course for all students – one in which takes channels as its central core student learning and professional teaching through a depth of real musical understanding, development, perspective – getting students to think musically from the start, and so to approach their learning in music from a different, very practical, very musical point. In addition, focus will also be on how teachers can create a coherent musical journey for their students over the two year course, while at the same time ensuring students of all abilities achieve their best possible outcomes at the ned of the course.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Find out more about the fundamental principles of teaching music in a vibrant, stimulating and in-depth way by placing teaching music musically at the central core of your teaching
- Take away practical approaches and strategies for teaching listening, appraising, cultural contexts, composition and other aspects through musical understanding rather than ‘elements’ understanding.
- Gain ways of using the exam specification as a springboard to deepen musical learning
- Explore exciting schemes of learning that will develop all students musicianship
- Take away practical strategies to develop students’ appraising skills to make evaluative and critical judgement
- Develop a template for approaching unfamiliar pieces of music/extracts
- Take away quick started composing and improvising tasks
- Take away a bank of composer ‘tricks’ connecting with extended listening
- Find out more about how to bring solo and ensemble performing into curriculum lesson
PROGRAMME
GCSE Music Teaching – The Challenges and Opportunities
10.00am- How can we ensure all students become better musicians through studying this specification?
- How might we create a coherent musical journey for our students over two years?
- How do we develop our GCSE class into a powerful musical community?
- What subject knowledge do we need to brush up on as teachers to teach this specification
Break
10.00amComponent 3: Putting the Wow Factor Into Teaching Appraising
11.00am- How to develop students’ appraising skills to make evaluative and critical judgements about music
- How to build students’ musical vocabulary through practical music-making
- How to get students looking forward to hearing pieces of music they haven’t heard before
- How students can get the real excitement and frisson (dopamine download) required to engage fully in musical learning
Component 3: Listening & Unfamiliar Extracts
12.00pm- Developing a template for approaching unfamiliar pieces of music / extracts
- How the unfamiliar connects with the familiar
- What constitutes an outstanding piece of extended writing and how to build towards this
- How to enable students to pick up marks as easy as breathing
Lunch
1.00pmComponent 2: Building Composing Skills for OCR GCSE Pupils
2.00pm- Quick starter composing and improvising tasks to build student confidence
- Developing a bank of composer 'tricks', connecting with extended listening
- How to approach a composition brief, sparking the imagination and unlocking the composer toolkit
- How to make composing workshops cool
- Ten top tips for composing success at GCSE
Break
3.00pmComponent 1: Building Performance Skills through Class Lessons
3.05pm- How to bring solo and ensemble performing into curriculum lessons
- How to develop students' coaching skills
- Developing the 'performing workshop' approach in your school
- How to ensure performing coursework deadlines are stress-free for both student and teacher, making your GCSE class self-sufficient
Depart
3.40pm
GCSE - Code: T0096
Teaching GCSE Music Musically: The Essential Principles to Maximise the Musical Potential of All Your Students
COURSE LEADER
One of the leading music teachers in the country, Simon Toyne has been teaching KS3, KS4 and KS5 music for over thirty years, including at Tiffin School and Malcolm Arnold Academy. As Executive Director of Music of the David Ross Education Trust, he is responsible for a music programme that engages over 14,500 students across 34 state schools across the East Midlands. He served on the Expert Panels for the Model Music Curriculum and the National Plan for Music Education and was the most recent President of the Music Teachers' Association (2019-21).
His chapter on curriculum music in the recent book What Should Schools Teach? was published in January 2021 and is available as an open access pdf from UCL Press. Simon is an experienced choral director, having led the Tiffin Boys' Choir for 24 years, and is a Director of the Rodolfus Choral Courses.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Teachers of GCSE Music
- Heads of Music
- Heads of Performing Arts
THIS COURSE INCLUDES
- A specially prepared folder of detailed notes, practical advice and guidance
- Notes prepared by the educational experts leading the course
- Expert produced PowerPoint presentations
- CPD Certificate of attendance