A source of World music CD’s is not always readily available locally so I hope this list of some website worth visiting will be useful - please feel free to add others. Here’s the link
Details of music courses available locally for Shropshire teachers can be found at this link.
Why not consider an away-from-it-all weekend of creativity in a gentle and relaxed atmosphere? Details here.
Notes for the first (yellow) level and the second (green) level of Music Explorer are available as pdf files as follows:
This terms briefings for art and/or Music co-ordinators will be as follows:
Shrewsbury Training and Development Centre - March 15th 4:15
Bishop Mascall Centre Ludlow - March 20th 4:15
Walford and North Shropshire College Oswestry - March 21st 4:1
University Campus Priorslee March 22nd - 4:15
The main focus of the agenda will be self and peer assessment.
A few places left on the music and mathematics course on Tuesday 23rd January 2007 in Shrewsbury. The morning course will explore the use of patterns in music and mathematics through a wide range of practical activities, also looking at higher level thinking and will have direct application to the creative classroom. Contact the Shropshire Advisory Service for further details.
Post-course note: The course provided some good practical composition work which has been recorded onto CD and copied for course members. Materials used on the course are available on my Digitalbrain site at this link
The course will be repeated next year - watch this space for details.
As a result of some work I’ve recently undertaken with a primary school, it reminds me that I placed some time ago on the website a series of ideas for getting started to support clarity of learning objective when teaching composition. While these starters are not fully formed lessons they may be none the less useful for teachers who are lesson clear about the direction to take to support composition. Although the National Curriculum (for music) has been around for nearly 10 years I think the area of composition is very much disregarded, while the national debate centres on vocal work.
Feel free to contact me for further help with composition.
Recent Comments