Some Thoughts on Improving Secondary School Music

1962 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-70
Author(s):  
Victor Weidensee
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
School Music

The influence of two years of school music training in secondary school on visual and auditory memory

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 608-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Degé ◽  
Sina Wehrum ◽  
Rudolf Stark ◽  
Gudrun Schwarzer
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Auditory Memory ◽  
Music Training ◽  
School Music

scholarly journals Podcasting para la motivación del alumnado de música en educación secundaria hacia la práctica instrumental / Podcasting for Motivating Secondary School Music Students Towards Musical Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Palazon Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
School Music ◽  
Musical Interpretation ◽  
Music Class

ABSTRACTEven though podcasting is a relatively new digital technology, it is becoming a tool of great value in the field of education. Although its possibilities are mainly being explored in post-secondary education, in recent years, the amount of studies and experiences in secondary education have incremented. In this communication we present a music class work experience where podcasts (mainly video podcasts) have been used to support musical interpretation. The data in this project indicates that students feel very motivated when using podcasts, a tool which comes from the 2.0 Web and that has a great potential for working on instrumental techniques.RESUMENAunque el podcasting es una tecnología digital relativamente nueva, se está convirtiendo en una herramienta de gran valor en el ámbito educativo. Aunque sus posibilidades están siendo exploradas principalmente en la educación superior, en los últimos años han ido apareciendo estudios y experiencias llevados a cabo en la educación secundaria. En esta comunicación presentamos una experiencia de trabajo en el aula de música utilizando podcasts (principalmente videopodcasts, podcasts de vídeo) de apoyo a la interpretación instrumental. Los datos de este trabajo indican que el alumnado se muestra muy motivado con el uso de podcasts, una herramienta proveniente de la Web 2.0 con gran potencial para el trabajo de la técnica instrumental. Contacto principal: [email protected]

Early career challenges in secondary school music teaching

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Welch ◽  
R. Purves ◽  
D. Hargreaves ◽  
N. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
School Music

Australian super veteran secondary school music teachers: Motivated and valuable

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-239
Author(s):  
Jennifer Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
School Music

Veteran teachers are defined as having over 15 years’ teaching experience. This research introduces a new career stage of ‘super veteran’ for music teachers that have worked for 30 plus years and seeks to identify the influences on, and contributions of, Australian secondary school music teachers of this career stage. This article reports on survey data gathered in a larger qualitative study that contained a national survey and interviews. The analysis of the interview data in the larger study is yet to be completed. Likert-type scale questions were used for demographic data collection and open-ended questions explored influences on music teacher work practice. Of the responses, 32 were from super veteran secondary school music teachers. These teachers were motivated by working with students and felt valued by them and their parents. Super veterans continued to be engaged in professional development, found work–life balance a constant challenge and many were planning to continue teaching. This research has implications for school leaders in encouraging, valuing and utilising the expertise of super veteran secondary school music teachers. It suggests tailoring professional development for this career stage, gives feedback on the implementation of new curriculum and indicates strategies for stress management and work–life balance.

The Contemporary Composer in the Classroom

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Owens
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Current State ◽  
School Music

This article is a revised version of a talk given by the author before an international symposium on music education in Hortos, Greece, in 1985. It considers the current state of modern music, suggesting that there have been some important changes in direction since the avant-garde styles of the 1950s and 1960s; and it reflects on some of the implications of these changes for secondary-school music teaching.Some proposals are made for factors likely to facilitate the success of contemporary music which children hear or perform. In the original talk these points were illustrated with recorded examples, indicated here by numbers in the text. The role of children as contemporary composers themselves is also discussed in terms of the method and motivation by which creative work may be encouraged.The educational writers on whom the author bases much of his argument are clearly acknowledged throughout the text. Otherwise, opinions derive from experience of teaching and writing music for children in England and in France.

Addressing the concerns of conservatoire students about school music teaching

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Mills
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
First Year ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
School Class ◽  
Secondary Music ◽  
School Music

While most of the students who graduate each year from the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London build performance-based portfolio careers that include some teaching, very few of them enter secondary school class music teaching. This article describes how young musicians' concerns about the career of secondary class music teacher develop as they move from sixth former to first year RCM undergraduate to third year undergraduate, and proposes some ways in which these concerns may be addressed. RCM students often agree strongly with statements consistent with a positive attitude to teaching, such as feeling a sense of achievement when pupils learn, and considering that teaching is about helping pupils realise their musical potential. However, they also tend to think that secondary class music teaching is not ‘doing music’. Successful secondary music teachers may take a different view, and the effect on RCM students of working with such teachers is reported descriptively.

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