Bulding 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

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...

Conceptions of professional competence

150-250 words Professional and practice-based learning is a process which manifests itself in many different forms. It differs by personal characteristics of the learners, levels of their professions, fields of practice, intentionality of their learning, and formalisation of the learning activities. Notions of competence have entered this diverse practice in many ways. The question is whether c...

The Impact of Professional Internship on Teacher Professional Development

Introduction: Teacher internships began in the United States in 1900 and they include work-based teaching experiences. Programs with titles from school to work, in search of work, teaching new teaching methods, and etc., are considered as the best methods of in-service training by a teacher. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of professional internship on the professional devel...