Music
The Faculty of Education, in partnership with East Anglian Schools is working to improve the quality of music teaching in secondary schools.
Do you want to be a part of this enterprise and become an excellent music teacher?
The Postgraduate Secondary Course in Music recruits twenty five graduates each year: the majority hold an upper second or first class degree in music or a degree in which music plays a substantial part.
Your qualities
You will need to be:
- intelligent and intuitive
- analytical and reflective
- bright-minded
- personally and musically flexible
- bounding with ideas and initiative
- willing to learn new musical skills and adapt existing ones
and have a working knowledge of current music educational practice as observable in state secondary schools
and know yourself to be able to relate well to people of all ages
- singing
- playing
- improvising
- composing
- listening
- appraising
Special emphasis is placed on:
- Music within the Arts
- Curriculum Planning
- Cultural Diversity
- Special Educational Needs
- Information Technology and Music
- The Assessment of Musical Knowledge and Understanding
- Music Learning beyond the Classroom
"I like my music lessons at school. They help me to know how to feel as well as think."
Year 9 pupil
Music teaching is challenging and immensely rewarding. Our schools and their pupils need good music teachers.
When last inspected by OFSTED, in 2002, the course was judged to have many good and very good features, with some outstanding aspects.
The course is taught by experienced music teachers, some of whom are music education researchers and some freelance musicians.
The course is enriched through the varied and novel music making developed within the group.
Contemporary music groups, medieval bands, rock groups and chamber choirs etc ensure that students' musical experience and knowledge is sustained and enhanced during the year. There is College music making as well and of course the wider Cambridge scene.
The course has a very high success rate. On course completion students can expect to be appointed to flourishing music departments and gain promotion within a few years. Faculty trainees inspected by OFSTED in their first years of teaching are commended for their good pedagogy and high level of professionalism.