Public Research Seminar: Musicianship for Teachers
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Workshop 2
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Free booking required
Seminars are in RBC Workshop 2 and can also be accessed online via Zoom.
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Real and virtual doors will open around 3.25pm, the seminar begins at 3.30pm and discussion will conclude around 4.55pm.
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Musicianship for Teachers: teaching general primary teachers functional musicianship for classroom teaching
Rebecca Berkley (University of Reading)
Many primary classroom teachers feel unconfident to teach music, feeling they lack musicianship skills to lead music making with children, and aural analysis skills to appraise and assess what the children do. This presentation reports on an intervention research project measuring the impact of training student teachers in functional classroom musicianship skills for creative classroom teaching.
Discussion will focus on how the importance of facilitating student teachers to be musicians in their classrooms to support their emerging pedagogical content knowing in making professional decisions about their teaching.
Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading, and Director of Internationalisation and Global Engagement for the Institute of Education. Her research focuses on music teacher education, classroom musicianship, choral education, and leadership. She is the founder of Universal Voices, a children’s choir at the University offering teacher training in choral education leadership to students of the University of Reading.
* If you wish to join us online, please register and you shall be sent Zoom codes by email shortly before the seminar. It is not necessary to register in advance for in-person attendance.
Running time approx. 90 minutes