Category: Assessment

• What I learned from… a conversation with Christopher Stevens HMI

  

  One of the many things I love about the Music Teachers Association is the opportunity to hear the right conversations at the best time. This particular conversation was in a January 2023 meeting with Ofsted’s Music Lead Christopher Stevens HMI and Catherine Barker, president-elect of the MTA. The conversation both confirmed our recent developments were…

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  21st Jan 2023

  Assessment, Classroom strategies, What I learned from…

  christopher stevens, education, hmi, KS3, mta, music, music teachers association, ofsted, real-world, strategy

• A solution to help ‘students who are not actively playing or writing music’ to find confidence in the understanding of music theory and language

  

  This amount of learning is vast for an 11-12 year old student. That every single individual learner is engaged and wanting to do more, is awesome. The learning potential of this approach with the addition of Kahoot is amazing!

  davelowemusiceducation

  7th Mar 2020

  Assessment, Curriculum Design

  amazing, aqa, awesome, gcse, high school, independent, Kahoot, Kahoot!, KS3, learning, music, music for all, opportunity, theory, tool

• Using real-world knowledge to inspire confidence and ambition in music

  

  ‘Data’ is probably the least favourite word in a music teacher’s working life. Often ‘data’ relates to a series of numerical values and the need to find a ‘best fit’ to ‘make the data work’, rather than considering the real-world situation of each music student. In the last few years changes in education have brought…

  davelowemusiceducation

  9th Feb 2019

  Assessment, Curriculum Design

  Assessment, education, iPad, KS3, music, Showbie