Music Teaching: Everyone's Learning
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.04 August 2006
Music Teaching: Everyone’s Learning, an ISM seminar for instrumental and vocal teachers, will be held in London at the University of Westminster on 30 September 2006. Chaired by Helen Marcus, Warden of the ISM’s Private Teachers Section for 2006-07, the seminar will include presentations, talks and workshops exploring some of the many challenges to learning encountered by teachers and pupils alike.
Lucinda Mackworth-Young, consultant in psychology for musicians and director of Music, Mind and Movement, will consider learning from a psychological standpoint, identifying how pupils learn, the different kinds of learning, and how to learn more effectively. She will also focus on how the interactive energy between teacher and pupil can be channelled to make teaching more effective. Singer and teacher Paula Bishop will explore some practical approaches to teaching instruments or voice to students with dyslexia and dyspraxia. Jacqueline Clifton, a research fellow at the RCM and director of Musicians in Focus, will consider the implications of teaching students with visual impairment and how these can be addressed.
Helen Marcus said:
‘Music teachers meet an immense variety of challenges every day, whether they are working as private teachers or visiting teachers in schools. Pupils, too, may have challenges to their learning processes. Many will need support to practice, progress and keep motivated, while others will have specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, or disabilities such as partial sight or blindness, or partial – or even profound – deafness.
‘This seminar will explore how teachers can equip themselves to deal confidently with this array of pupils and to recognize how teaching can be shaped to help all pupils to learn, whatever the challenges they may face.’
The seminar will be held in the University of Westminster’s Fyvie Hall, close to Oxford Circus. All refreshments are included in the booking fee. The cost is £40 for ISM members (£10 for Student members) and £60 for non-members. The closing date for bookings is Friday 22 September 2006.
For details, visit the ISM website (www.ism.org/everyoneslearning) or contact ISM Head Office, 10 Stratford Place, London W1C 1AA, T. 020 7629 4413, F. 020 7408 1538, E. membership@ism.org. The booking form can be downloaded at www.ism.org/everyoneslearning or obtained from ISM Head Office.
Ends: 06 / 2006
Note to Editors: The Incorporated Society of Musicians, founded in 1882, is the UK’s professional body for musicians. It aims to promote the art of music and uphold the honour and interests of the musical profession by protecting the interests of musicians, raising professional standards, and providing legal advice and other benefits to its members. Its 5,000 members include performers, teachers, composers, conductors, organists, writers and others involved in professional musical work. The Private Teachers Section is the ISM’s 2,000-strong specialist group for self-employed musicians who run independent teaching practices from their own premises: it holds conferences and seminars from time to time on topics of current interest.
Contact: Alison Pickard / Fiona MacLeod, T. 020 7629 4413
