Teaching Musical Skill – Term 4

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Course Details

Date: Returning in 2025
Time: 9.00am to 2:30pm
Term: Term 1
Location: Club York, Level 2, 99 York Street, Sydney
Presenter: Michael Griffin
Price: Individual enrolment $400 +GST

Course Description

Knowing how to practise is the most important skill for musicians. Types of repetition, identifying patterns to simplify learning, practising in small portions, and slow practice are core.

This course explores the most effective methods of teaching these concepts to students, including explanation for understanding, observation to collect feedback, and physical and metacognitive modelling.

Participants will learn:

  • Factors impacting differential ability
  • Repetition, drills, and associated issues
  • The four modes for playing music
  • Music patterns and chunking
  • Slow practice, myelin and accuracy
  • Practice time and the importance of sleep
  • Observing student practice and modelling
  • Teaching expression
  • Singing
  • Growth Mindset and Music
  • Access to a large collection of music education resources

Minimum and Max enrolment numbers: 6 – 20

Absolutely fantastic. Inspirational and plenty of ways to implement ideas effectively in the classroom.
Grace ParkerHunter River High School
Great course, very engaging, valuable and informative.
Henry Bidwell
Al Sadiq College – Greenacre Campus
High quality, lots of relevant information. Thoroughly enjoyed discussions about theories and research.
Jake FehonCambridge Park High School
Brilliant course – Michael was an extremely knowledgable presenter and brought his expertise to the course. Very relevant in terms of getting the most out of students, parents and ourselves – musically and mindset.
Marie GerardisCordon College
A great speaker who was engaging and full of anecdotes and wonderful real life examples you could use in your everyday classroom !
Kristina Vuceski Wahroonga Adventist School
Michael presented simple, sensible ideas with a non gloss, no fuss finish. His material was wholesome and came from his wealth of experience and deep understanding of music and mindset. I received both confirmation of what I do well and many new ideas to put into place to help my students as they learn how to maximise their efforts.
Jane ParkesNewcastle Grammar School

This course is NESA Accredited for 4 hours and 30 minutes in partnership with Michael Griffin.

Completing Teaching Musical Skill will contribute 4 hours and 30 minutes of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing Standard Descriptor 1.1.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW. 

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