BUILDING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF AN INTENDING MUSIC TEACHER AT CHORAL CONDUCTING LESSONS

Rehearsal Guide: An Analysis of the Music, History, Teaching Considerations and Professional Recordings of Choral Literature for Male Chorus

On Line Collaboration for Building a Teacher Professional Identity

In this paper it is our intention to discuss a Teacher Education proposal that uses an on line asynchronous learning environment to develop collaborative practices and to enhance a professional identity. Using an integrated multi-method approach for analysing the on line discussions of 47 student-teachers, a research group of the University of Padua has explored: a) how different groups of stud...

Original Choral Compositions and Community Music Making

“Conducting is Everywhere!” A Case Study of the Development of Preservice Music Teacher Occupational Identity in a Beginning Conducting Course

Research on pre-service music teacher occupational identity often highlights two competing identities: performer and teacher (L‟Roy, 1983; Roberts, 1991; Pellegrino, 2009). Of the many factors that contribute to the occupational identity of the pre-service music teacher (Woodford, 2002), conducting has the potential to integrate performer and teacher identities. Previous research indicates that...

Building an International On-Line Teacher Community to Support Continuing Professional Development

The following paper describes the initial experience of a major international examination board in setting up and running an email discussion group for teachers of a syllabus taught in more than 80 countries. In it we describe how the group was established, how its members used it, and contrast this with our experience of similar teacher groups in the UK.