Becoming a Better Music Teacher

Learn new teaching methods to enhance your instrument or singing lessons

Vocal coaches and music teachers have an important role in improving their students’ ability to sing or play an instrument.

On this music teacher training course, 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.

This course is for all music and instrument teachers and vocal coaches.

A music teacher training suited both for private teachers as well as teachers working in schools, music trusts or music academies.

• Teaching and Learning Principles
• Welcome!
• Reflect on your current teaching
• Identifying a philosophical foundation for your teaching
• Discovering specific learning and improvement areas
• Exploring the multi-faceted role of the teacher
• Engaging with a holistic approach to teaching
• Devising teaching strategies and ideas
• Contextualising and prioritising a pupils' areas for development
• Balancing priorities; notation, technique and interpretation
• Developing Core Musical Skills
• Defining 'core musical skills'
• Defining performing skills
• Developing aural skills
• Developing notation skills
• The value of improvisation and playing without notation
• The value of composition
• Developing musical knowledge and understanding
• Developing Technical Skills
• An introduction to Technique
• Piano
• Strings
• Woodwind
• Brass
• Singing
• Percussion
• Instrument care
• Professional Values and Practice
• Understanding the significance of Special Educational Needs
• Running a private teaching practice
• Understanding Safeguarding
• Considering health and safety in your teaching environment
• Resource toolkit
• Motivation & Progression and Curriculum & Lesson Planning
• Understanding an individual's motivation for learning
• What is progression?
• Identifying and responding to individual learning styles
• Exploring the relevance and value of assessment
• Exploring motivational strategies
• Understanding the importance of a curriculum
• Considering the relevance of repertoire choice
• Guide to lesson planning
• What have I learned over the past five weeks?