teachertraining | Musical Futures

Initial Teacher Education Providers

Initial Teacher Educators have a vital role to play in terms of preparing students for the wide range of teaching and learning strategies that Musical Futures requires of teachers.

Through the Champion Schools network, Musical Futures is working alongside many initial teacher education providers to share best Musical Futures practice, and to help support teacher trainees through the Musical Futures process. This may involve a Champion School teacher running a workshop for teacher trainees, or for groups of students to spend a day at a Champion School to see MF in action.

We currently have links with the following institutions:

University of Cambridge

Canterbury Christ Church University

Cornwall SCITT

Cumbria University

Durham University

University of East London

Edge Hill University

Gloucestershire ITEP

University of Greenwich

University of Huddersfield

Liverpool Hope University

Manchester Metropolitan University

Middlesex University

Nottingham Trent University

Oxford Brookes University

University of Reading

University of Sussex

ITE providers interested in introducing Musical Futures, particularly informal pedagogies, to their trainees can visit the ITE Subject Resource Network to download suggestions for lectures and practical activities.

The Teacher Training Resource Bank contains a useful review of the Institute of Education report, and its implications for teacher trainees, by Jonathan Savage.

If you are an initial teacher education provider, and would be interested in establishing a link with Musical Futures, please contact Abigail D'Amore, Musical Futures Project Leader, Tel 07837 631492, Email abigail.damore@gmail.com

Students

If you are doing a PGCE or other course in music/arts education you may come across Musical Futures in some form or other. You should be provided with a Musical Futures teacher resource pack through your ITE provider, which details all of the information to get you started with Musical Futures.

We are building up a bank of resources here that we hope you will find useful. A good starting point is our Tips for PGCE Students resource. You can read about the experiences of others through our case studies.

If you have any questions about Musical Futures, we have established a forum on Teaching Music to encourage debate and discussion around issues, challenges and benefits teachers often face. Visit the forum here

We are starting to form a collection of assignments, case studies and experiences of PGCE students/NQTs. If you have anything along these lines that you would like to share please submit it here

Finally, do book onto one of our free training and CPD sessions.