Friday was the Music Education Council AGM. The meeting in Birmingham was an opportunity for many leading organisations in Music education to reflect on the current changes in funding and policy. What was great was the positive attitude everyone had to the changes – whilst there will be many challenges in the coming months there [...]
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Ofsted Report Recommends Teaching Music
February 4, 2009 – 5:59 pm
The report ‘Making More of Music‘, published by Ofsted today, includes a strong recommendation for Teaching Music, the teacher resource network we developed with NAME and MEC. Overall, the study concludes that music teaching is inadequate in half of UK schools, despite the positive impact good music education has been found to have on the [...]
We Built This City On Rock and Roll…and Jazz and Bach and Gamelan and Ejay and…..
October 23, 2008 – 4:00 pm
It’s only two weeks since our new site Teaching Music www.teachingmusic.org.uk was launched and already the place is overrun with new faces!! Since opening the doors there have been over 40,000 page views and over 500 people have joined the community. And the newcomers haven’t been slow in taking part either. They have been busy [...]
Music Teacher 2.0
September 16, 2008 – 10:58 pm
Its only a few weeks now until a new social network launches which will help revolutionize those dusty recorder lessons and xylophones you remember from childhood. Teaching Music is a new initiative to help music educators develop their skills and strengthen connections between the formal and informal sectors. Funded by the Teacher Development Agency and [...]
