Music for Teachers

We all would wish to see a level playing field but can all teachers be relied upon not to give unreasonable ’support’ to their students - the issue is a live one as you will see from this BBC news link.

I recall moderation meetings in my early years as a music teacher when it was clear to me that examination work had been unreasonably assisted by a teacher and finding that the chief moderator was not at all interested in hearing the argument.

How do you feel about teachers having access to the listening CD prior to the examination?

Following recent work at the Sir John Talbot School and Technology College, colleagues might find the following summary very useful of the main characteristics of Assessment for Learning - link

I’ve recently been working with Heather Pringle, Music Co-ordinator at Cleobury Mortimer Primary School in South Shropshire in supporting teaching staff in recognising progress over the key stages. We have provided on Shropshire Digital Brain some statments which will support the Attainment Levels in the National Curriculum which have always been difficult to use since they lack clarity for most of us and certainly for non-music specialists.

We hope these are helpful. They can be found from the file listing on this page within my area (keith.shropshire) of Digital Brain: link

Another very uesful piece of work on assessment in music has been undertaken by Katherine Smith and a team of Primary staff and their work can be found here