Music Mark reported that its podcast, Make Your Mark: Notes on Music Education, features educators, therapists and school leaders discussing challenges and initiatives in music education. Episodes explore safeguarding, pedagogy, early years music, creative curriculum design and music therapy.
One episode addresses safeguarding in music education with guests from Brass Bands England and the NSPCC, covering changes in safeguarding practices, employing the right people and intersectional safeguarding challenges. Another focuses on pedagogy, with a professor from the Royal Northern College of Music, a New York-based drummer and educator, and a pedagogy head from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire examining teaching approaches that help educators and learners achieve musical progression and intellectual growth.
An early years episode features educators discussing why music education is fundamental to child development, following the launch of Music Mark’s A Common Approach: Early Years programme. Additional episodes cover creative curriculum strategies, with a head of music at Plympton Academy and a primary school music coordinator sharing classroom approaches. A live conference recording features leaders from Rocksteady Music School, Merton Music Foundation and Mahogany Opera discussing primary school music education, including participatory opera programs reaching over 5,000 children in more than 100 schools since 2016.
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