Study Guide

Objective

After completing the Instrument Pedagogy Courses 1-4, the student:
- identifies and masters the basic technical skills of her instrument and is capable to teach them
- knows the key teaching methods, repertoire, teaching materials of elementary, basic, and advanced studies, including making music together
- is able to set the objectives of teaching on a learner basis and design the lessons in accordance with trainee student’s needs
- can apply the principles of ergonomics creatively and use those skills while working with trainee student
- can guide the learner's training and is able to support the development of the learner's artistic expression and performance capacity
- has internalized the principles of encouraging continuous feedback and can also guide learners in self-assessment and peer review
- can assess the learner's progress and constructively coach and evaluate performance in level performance situations
- can support and guide learners of different ages in both individual and group learning situations
- is able to interact with learners of different levels, ages and from different backgrounds (including adult students) and can teach learners with both for hobby goals and vocational training
- knows how to use online pedagogical methods in her pedagogical work
- is familiar with the work of a musical pedagogue in different environments: music colleges that provide basic education in the arts, in the vocational secondary school of music, in the free education sector and in private sector
- can analyze and showcase her own field of art and its pedagogical activities
- has formed a versatile picture of her as a teacher and is able to reflex her own activities and develop capabilities to help grow as a teacher throughout the professional career

Content

Music pedagogy lectures
Observing teaching practice and teaching samples
Observing professional instrument teaching
Other pedagogical activities, i.e. introduction to group pedagogy, evaluation and possible teaching assistant assignments

Materials

The learning materials are agreed with the student, common materials can be found in itslearning course environment.

Teaching methods

Contact teaching, distance learning and independent working.

International connections

Peer learning, flipped learning and flipped assessment.

Student workload

To be agreed with student.
Assignments in itsLearning.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Accepted: The student has participated in the teaching, done the agreed learning tasks, participated in peer feedback events, followed the teaching as agreed, started working with the trainee student and made two recordings of working with the trainee student for peer feedback.
Faliled: learning tasks have been done, working in a group has been inadequate, participation in peer-to-peer feedback events has been incomplete.

Content scheduling

Following the teaching in the fall and spring semester 10x45 minutes, a total of 20 listening sessions during the academic year, collecting written comments. The listening journal is returned to itsLearning at the end of the semester.
Weekly participation in TeknoDida meetings: lectures, program practicum, technology workshop and peer-to-peer feedback sessions for teaching practice.
In the spring semester, a teaching training session will be started with your own training student. In the spring semester, two teaching sessions are recorded with the student for peer feedback.

Further information

Email and TeamsOs

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Participation in teaching, performance of learning tasks, peer feedback, performance of independent work.