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Empower | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. A safe place to sing →. September 9, 2012. Before diving headlong into the final E, I think it’s worth clarifying again the aim of instrumental lessons. It may be that some students just want to have some fun, and certainly aren’t contemplating spending hours a day practising hard so that they can go to Music College. That is fine (of course! But I have serious concerns about ‘teaching’ a pupil each week if the.
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vision statement | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. I’m beginning the process of formulating a more concrete vision statement for music@monkton. My new colleague and friend, Simon Walker, has been teaching us about The Undefended Life. And has been challenging me to consider my current leadership style. I am flattered to find that, more often than not, I fall into the category of Visionary. But I am committed to this task. Where only I can see it, to my. There are...
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The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Click on each title for more detail. All students should feel welcomed, respected and encouraged, and their learning needs understood by their teacher. Our music lessons should be purposeful and affirming. Students should be stretch appropriately, and inspired to achieve more than they can already do. Of music, and not just how to play or sing the notes. The first tw...
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Chamber Choir CD | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Sight-reading – are we making it up as we go along? How to practise, part 2: Style of lesson = Style of practice →. May 22, 2014. I am delighted to announce that our Chamber Choir CD is now on sale. Recorded live in the Bowerman Hall on 8th May. As one parent wrote to me after the concert:. The CDs are just 3. Although of course you can give more as all profits will go to our school charity, The Genesis Trust.
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Sight-reading hurdles | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Directed practice – a guiding hand →. March 22, 2015. I have been working with a pupil recently on sight-reading, ahead of his forthcoming trumpet exam, and in particular I’ve been trying to encourage him to. To stop – to. 8211; he can’t! It has dawned on me that for much of the time we actually encourage. Our students to do the exact opposite, to. But what they never. Do is go back and have another go. They.
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Reading list | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Permission to sing badly. A school which is learning to sing →. July 1, 2015. Not a very exciting post this – just a list of the books that I have read over the past couple of years or so. Not sure what this list says about me, other than that I have an ongoing fascination with certain topics: memory, synesthesia, thinking, teaching and numbers. Chabris, C and Simons, D. The man who tasted shapes. Luria, A R.
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Directed practice – a guiding hand | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Chamber Choir: developing the vision →. Directed practice – a guiding hand. May 25, 2015. As a student I had the good fortune to cross paths with Alan Hazeldine, an inspirational conductor and a generous teacher. In the year or so that I was accompanist to the North London Chorus [my first concert with them was Bach’s. I learned a huge amount from him, but this single idea stands out above all else. 8211; in othe...
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Chamber Choir: developing the vision | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Directed practice – a guiding hand. Permission to sing badly →. Chamber Choir: developing the vision. May 27, 2015. In May last year our newly formed Chamber Choir gave a short recital. And looking back now I can see that, despite being a fairly low key event, it marked a big step in the development of our music department, certainly from a choral perspective. The initial purpose of writing here at music@monkton.
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Music Centre gallery | music@monkton
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music practice | music@monkton
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Enabling every pupil to find their own voice. The 5Es for outstanding instrumental teaching. Category Archives: music practice. Directed practice – a guiding hand. May 25, 2015. As a student I had the good fortune to cross paths with Alan Hazeldine, an inspirational conductor and a generous teacher. In the year or so that I was accompanist to the North London Chorus [my first concert with them was Bach’s. I learned a huge amount from him, but this single idea stands out above all else. 8211; in other wor...