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Are Parents the Best Teachers for Early Music Education? 🎶 Discover why parents are often the most qualified to teach their own child music. Learn how you can become an effective music teacher with the help of the Music Color Method. #ParentTeachers #MusicEducation #MusicColorMethod #EarlyChildhoodMusic #TeachingMusic #ParentInvolvement #MusicLearning #MusicSkills #MusicTeaching #MusicColorTechnique

Like any industrial sector, cultural careers need to be underpinned by skills development and formal education, as well as life experience. This Inquiry is a chance to have your say. So use it.

If you missed Tuesday's newsletter, the topic is all about what to expect when you become a music major in college, and some tips to help you prepare for it in high school. (Also, subscribe to the newsletter to get first dibs on great info!) #collegeprep #musicadmissions #musicmajor #whattoexpect #collegeadmissions

Your student's music program matters. How do you make sure the administrators and other decision-makers recognize the importance? 🎺 🥁🎶 The National Association for Music Education shares five things parents and music advocates can do to support school music programs: https://buff.ly/4ahAhur #MIOSM #MusicEducation

Education Policy Initiative research has shown that, alongside Blackpool & Torbay, Hull has seen a particularly sharp widening of the disadvantage gap, post pandemic. I haven’t seen any evidence that ‘levelling up’ Education Investment Area funding has made a difference, but regardless, the city didn’t receive any. Given that context, this annual report from our deliberately non-elitest music service is really important, demonstrating a clear link between learning an instrument, either individually or in a group, and both progress and attainment at KS4. The sample size is not small. 48% of Hull’s musical instrument learners live in wards that are among the 10% most deprived in the country. Not only does this tell you all you need to know about Hull’s inclusion-first music service, there are clear messages here for policy makers, including that narrowing the curriculum is no way to promote opportunity for all. Children's Commissioner for England Department for Education Come talk to James & spend a day seeing what the service is doing in collaboration with school leaders.

This keeps me up at night. Do school music programs exist merely to make more music teachers, who teach in music programs, that make more music teachers that...? you get the point. Similarly, the argument that if we want professional orchestras, we must first have school orchestras always makes me a little uneasy. It makes sense, but that can't be the only reason to introduce music education to children, right? All of this *waves hands around* must be about more than just making more of itself. RIGHT? What do you see as the truest, deepest purpose of music education in schools?

Is there a measurement for music potential? And can we accurately measure that at from the age of 11? Ralph Allwood shares his thoughts below, but I would also be interested in what others think? 🤔 How would you measure music potential in a young person?

How can we keep the joy of music as students transition from elementary school singing/music-making to secondary music ensembles? What do you think? These are some of the thoughts I am grappling with: This generation is different, and that is OK. Treating them the same is foolish. We do not need to throw away old methods which are proven to produce results. We need to transition students from the joy of singing a diverse repertoire of songs to the challenge of notation with the steps that are necessary to bring success to every student. https://lnkd.in/dKprWmCa

Do We Require Improved Music Education? Do you now or have you ever played an instrument? Do you believe that music education should be a required component for all children? Know More: https://lnkd.in/d9Fif3pn #MusicEducation #MusicalLiteracy #ArtsEducation #MusicForAll #LearningThroughMusic #EducationReform #MusicMatters #CulturalEnrichment #MusicSkills #EnhancedEducation

"It's really hard to aspire to something, or to envisage yourself doing something, if you don't see yourself, or other people like you, succeeding in that space..." Louisa Danmeri explores her journey to international school music teaching, reflects on her own experience with under-representation in classical music education, and shares some initiatives around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in music education and how it applies to her school context in Japan. https://lnkd.in/gxwPwjmS