Teaching Notes - MTA Podcast

Send us a textIn Episode 85, Patrick meets Dice Wood, author of the teaching blog Grab and Go Guides, and chats about how to say No to excess workload, how to reduce time spent marking homework, and the message that homework sends to students.Laura Hailstone from Music Mark introduces their annual conference, being held in November.And Paul Blaylock discusses his highly successful approach to the KS3 curriculum, offering tips and insights.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.https://grabandgoguides.blogspot.comhttps://www.musicmark.org.uk/events/music-mark-annual-conference-2023/https://twitter.com/Paul_Blaylock© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn Episode 84, Patrick chats to Alex Aitken about his enormous new resource, Mastering A Level Music, focussing on the Edexcel course.Lauren Elliott from Music Monsters introduces the wonderful work they do with young musicians from the age of three upwards, using play to teach the piano and theory.And film and TV composer  George Fenton looks at this year's GCSE Film Music Composition Briefs (from Eduqas and Edexcel). George also offers some insights to the art of film composition more generally, and gives some tips for aspiring film composers.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.https://masteringalevelmusic.co.ukhttps://www.musicmonsters.co.ukhttps://georgefenton.com© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn the first episode of the new academic year, Patrick chats to Rachel Shapey about her new book, co-authored with Nate Holder, Listen and Celebrate, written to help teachers to enrich and diversify music at Key Stage 3.Leanne Sedin and Adam Saunders tell Patrick all about their new project, The Music Teachers' Choir, set up to get music teachers together to sing, every month.And independent music consultant Dan Francis chats about the relationship between what's learnt in the music classroom, and what's learnt in instrumental/vocal lessons, and how the two can overlap more.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.https://www.icancompose.com/new-book-listen-celebrate-ks3-by-nathan-holder-and-rachel-shapey/https://musicteacherschoir.com/© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn the final episode of the academic year, Patrick chats to Rob Reich-Storer about his music resource website, Rhythmstix, and to Katy Thomson about Ground:Ed, which offers workshops to help teachers and students harness their creativity, build awareness and self-confidence.Finally, Patrick signs off the year by chatting to MTA President Catherine Barker, about the 2022-23 academic year, current issues in music education, and what's in store from the MTA for 2023-24.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.#CanDoMusic #GetPlaying #SaveOurSubjectshttps://www.rhythmstix.co.uk/https://discovergrounded.com/© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn Episode 82, Patrick talks to Niels Bastrup and Hans Jakobsen from aural training app Ear Master, about a new feature designed to help students with the aural tests in ABRSM exams and beyond; Mark Aitchison shares his planning for the next academic year, taken from a recent MTA ECT webinar;And Dr Rebecca Berkley, Associate Professor in Music Education, at the Institute of Education, at the University of Reading, discusses music training for primary school teachers, looking at specific problems and possible solutions, including training courses.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.#CanDoMusic #GetPlaying #SaveOurSubjectshttps://www.earmaster.com/shop/product/abrsm-aural-trainer.htmlhttps://www.abcd.org.uk/training/abcd-courseshttps://singforpleasure.org.uk/product/summer-school-2023/https://www.kodaly.org.uk/training-courseshttps://www.nycos.co.uk/learn/kodaly-summer-school/https://www.voices.org.uk/resourceshttps://www.singup.org/training© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn episode 80, Patrick finds out about the Why Music Festival, curated by Nate Holder - a one-day online festival on 4th July 2023, aimed at pupils, and featuring a wide variety of speaker. (Link below.)Olivia Sparkhall tells Patrick all about her new book, “A Young Person's Guide to Vocal Health”, and talks about the importance of vocal health for young people, including the effects of bad habits. (Link below.)And Christopher Stevens HMI, subject lead for Music at Ofsted, joins Patrick to answer a few questions about what Ofsted are looking for on inspections, and to discuss the purpose of assessment in music education.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.#CanDoMusic #GetPlaying #SaveOurSubjects Why Music Festival: https://lnkd.in/ecYEvnpdYoung Persons's Guide to Vocal Health: https://oliviasparkhall.wixsite.com/sparkhallo/a-young-persons-guide© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Pianist Melanie Spanswick discusses her Women Composers anthology, while Cynthia Stephens-Himonides and Meggie Young explore music teachers' self-identity with technology. Jazz pianist Darius Brubeck shares insights on teaching jazz, improvisation, and composition, emphasizing the importance of making jazz relevant to young students and studying traditional jazz performances.

Send us a textMTA CONFERENCE SPECIALIn Episode 78, Patrick reports from the 2023 MTA Conference, held in the Loughborough Schools Foundation.Greg Coughlin discusses non-traditional routes to GCSE Music, Lisa Coley introduces the range of microphones available from Sontronics, Rebecca Arnold chats about her experiences at her first MTA Conference, and Charles Price explains how to demystify the composition process, especially at Key Stage 4.Finally, outgoing president Don Gillthorpe reflects on the last two years, and incoming president Catherine Barker looks ahead to the future.Presented and produced by Patrick JohnsLinks:www.sontronics.com© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn Episode 77, Patrick chats to Cynthia Stephens-Himonides and Maria Mendonça about incorporating Gamelan into curricula, particularly as a way of including disengaged young people.Looking ahead to the 2023 MTA Conference,  sneak previews of two of the sessions, with Mark Wilderspin ('How to take student compositions from good to great') and Lucinda Geoghegan ('The Kodály Approach').Plus, Naomi McCarthy from the ISM, discussing their new campaign Save Our Subjects, calling on the government to do three very important things.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns#CanDoMusic #GetPlaying #SaveOurSubjectswww.saveoursubjects.org© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Send us a textIn Episode 76, Patrick chats to Vanessa Wilson-Best about current matters in music education, and she gives an overview of the forthcoming Great Escape Festival’s Music Education Conference.Composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gavin Higgins, introduces the BBC’s Young Composer Competition.And Dr Anthony Anderson explores his recent RiME presentation, looking at the ‘telescoping’ of KS3 curricula down from three years to two. Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.https://greatescapefestival.com/conference/music-education-2023/https://tinyurl.com/bbcyoungcomposercompetition23© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org