National Association of Music Educators – National Conference

When:  5 October to 6 October 2012

Where:  Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre, Stone Staffordshire ST15 0NL   www.yarnfieldpark.com

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Theme:  Crossing Frontiers in Music Education

 

Training , development and critical debate for music teaching professionals

In this time of dramatic change, come to the Conference that all music educators need to attend.

• Experience continuing professional development for all phases
• Enjoy practical training workshops and keynote addresses
• Refresh your practice, hear the latest research and contribute to debates on key issues affecting music education today.

 

Keynote Speakers including
Mark Phillips HMI
Usifu Jalloh

 

Practical Training Workshops

Early Years
Movers and Shakers Rebecca Lawrence
Early Years and Moving on – developing ideas to extend children’s musicality from early years into KS1 Linda Bance

Key Stages 1 and 2
Creativity with Keyboard in the Classroom Andrew Eales
Using Music Technology to Improvise, Explore, Develop and Refine Musical Ideas whilst Recording and Performing Phil Heeley
Movers and Shakers Rebecca Lawrence
Minute of Listening Tim Steiner for Sound and Music
Feel the Music – How stepping away from notation can liberate you and the young musicians you work with Pete Churchill
Brazilian Samba Louder than Life
World in Union – Singing and Body Percussion Stephen Chadwick for A&C Black

Key Stages 3 and 4
Feel the Music – How stepping away from notation can liberate you and the young musicians you work with Pete Churchill
Big Folk Band – Instrumental folk music for young people English Folk Dance and Song Society
Creativity with Keyboards in the Classroom Andrew Eales
Creative Ideas for Composing and Perfoming using Music Technology Phil Heeley
Singing Peter Hunt
Taiko Drumming Kagemusha Taiko
Brazilian Samba Louder than Life
 

Research, Presentations and Debates
Developing Languages through Music in Primary Education – The European Music Portfolio Comenius Project  David Wheway
Sounds of Intent:  Mapping the musical development of pupils with learning difficulties Adam Ockelford
Understanding Adolescent Singing:  Exploring Barriers to Participation and Ways to Overcome these Robert Legg
Music Education – still no pedagogy! John Finney
Listen, Imagine, Compose action research
Creative or Conservative?  Designing an Inclusive Secondary School Concert Anthony Anderson
Debates on Ofsted’s new report Music in Schools: wider still, and wider, music education pedagogy, Music Hubs and the future of ITE

Also:   Resource Exhibition

 

  

 

 

 

 

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