Click on this link to read an article about music teaching at Manorfield, published in the Autumn 2105 edition of the Sing Up magazine:
Month: September 2016
‘Learning Intentions’ vs Unconscious Learning
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I have been very lucky to be offered the chance to teach music across the whole school from Nursery to Year 6. Discovering the Kodály approach has been musically enlightening but also pedagogically reassuring. For the last three years I have been a Year 1 teacher. A major feature of current educational thinking in England, led by Shirley Clarke, Dylan William and others, is the primacy of the explicit ‘Learning Intention’ usually broken down into several ‘Success Criteria’.
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Pupil Profile
This is an essay I wrote about a Year 4 pupil learning music. It’s 2300 words.
Child Profile
‘…Hungarian musical education is not merely a method, rather a philosophy on the role of music in society, in the life of the child, youth and adult.’1
Erzsebet Szonyi
Serkan, aged 9 (d.o.b. 18.12.03), lives with his mother, his father and his younger brother who is in the year below him at school. They all speak Turkish at home.
An Introduction to Kodály
This is an essay that I wrote as part of my initial studies with the British Kodaly Academy in 2010/11.
2200 words
‘Kodály training is a holistic musical training for children: one in which the ear, the emotions, the mind and the technique are being attended to at the same time…’
Mannie Burn, BKA Newsletter, Summer 2002
The system of music education developed in Hungary during the twentieth century is named after Zoltan Kodaly (1882 – 1967).