MUSA251-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Studio Pedagogy

This occurrence is not offered in 2017

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

This course studies educational principles and their application in an instrumental or vocal studio setting, and best practice models for establishing the physical and business aspects of private studio teaching.

Learning Outcomes

Students who pass this course will have acquired:
*  The basic principles of 1:1 and small group music teaching;
*  The basic principles of the physical setting up of young students on various instruments and voice;
*  Some basic knowledge of how to sequence learning material for students of all ages;
*  the basic principles of running a private studio as a small business including dealing with parents and with other teachers;
*  Some knowledge of the basic principles of pedagogy specific to various instruments and instrument families.

Students will have also gained transferable skills:
*  Communication skills:  effective listening, effective speaking, effective feedback
*  Organisational skills:  setting and achieving goals, meeting deadlines, punctuality, attention to detail
*  Research skills:  gathering data, assessing data, problem solving, synthesising information
*  Interpersonal skills:  motivating others, appreciating other viewpoints, decision-making, assessing the roles of others (eg, in this context, the role of parents).

Prerequisites

Restrictions

MUSI 297

Timetable Note

Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
*  24 hours attending lectures
*  30 hours creating / writing essay
*  20 hours test preparation
*  30 hours preparing for peer critique
*  46 hours self-directed study, reading and research

Course Coordinator

Glenda Keam

Lecturers

Tony Ferner and Andrew Withington

Notes

Use of Technology

This course assumes that you have sufficient information and technology skills to confidently use a computer to access material for your course.  Your written work will be handwritten and submitted in class time.

You will be required to access our learning management system – LEARN – and to become familiar with its tools.  LEARN provides easily-accessible information about the course and assessments, topics and deadlines, and supports the learning you will gain from attending all lectures and tutorials.  For help using LEARN, refer to: http://learn.canterbury.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=2157

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

The following shows how to translate grades to numerical scores:

A+  90–100;    A   85–89;    A-  80–84;    B+   75–79;    B 70–74;    B-   65–69;     C+  60–64;     C  55–59;     C- 50–54;     D  40–49;   E  0–39
In a course at 100- or 200-level examiners may grant restricted credit (R) which will be equivalent to a pass for all purposes except as a prerequisite.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $817.00

International fee $3,525.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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