Modular CPD structures are in place at the Guildhall School to enable students, teachers and practitioners to meet their professional needs within a personal time frame.

Creative Music Workshop Leading

Are you interested in learning how to run creative music workshops?

From November 2011 – March 2012 we are offering two CPD programmes which consist of three core modules:

• Creative Skills    
• Composition 
• Workshop Leading

The courses are open to musicians who wish to gain skills in workshop leading and collaborative music making. Musicians (performers, teachers, composers and students) from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.

Participants can sign up for individual modules or the complete course.

The CPD course offers a deep insight into:

• Workshop leading
• Group composition 
• Creative collaboration
• Improvisation
• Vocal and percussion skills 

The CPD Training Course would be ideal for anyone who is considering applying for the MMus in Leadership, giving a foundation in all the core elements of the programme.

Click here to download further information on the CPD Training Programme (Word doc, 59Kb) 

Click here to download an application form for the CPD Training Programme (Word doc, 49Kb)

Professional Development for Instrumental and Vocal Teachers in Music Conservatoires and University Music Departments 

In collaboration with the Institute of Education

Course Outline
Developing musicians rely on their instrumental/vocal/composition teachers and coaches to provide musical models, feedback, and assessment. Their teachers help them to acquire technical expertise and deepen their musicianship.
 
The influence of instrumental and vocal teachers is widely known to have sustained importance. Often, these teachers promote successful transitions into the music profession.
 
These new modules, developed jointly by the Institute of Education and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, meet the specific needs of instrumental and vocal teachers in higher education. They will focus on one-to-one tuition and small ensemble coaching, and help you to:

deepen your understanding of major issues in instrumental/ vocal/composition tuition and ensemble coaching in higher education reflect on how these issues relate to current practice consider the roles and responsibilities of one-to-one music teachers and coaches in higher education develop strategies for fostering autonomous learning, motivation, deep learning, professional satisfaction and creative communities of practice consider what higher education music students are likely (and not likely) to bring to their learning - e.g. knowledge, aspirations, prior experience, learning strategies, self-regulation strategies, musical preference and musical self-concept develop a critical understanding of conceptions of teaching and learning in higher education relate these models to higher education music contexts promote a questioning and analytical approach to the issues that affect teaching, learning and assessment in higher education music contexts.

The modules may be taken as 'stand-alone' modules of professional development, requiring no assessment. They can also be taken as part of a specialist training pathway for musicians who wish to attain accreditation for teaching in higher education: the Professional Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education (instrumental and vocal teaching pathway).
 
Further information
Please contact Andrea Creech at a.creech@ioe.ac.uk

Download the flyer (PDF, 184Kb)

Music Therapy

The Guildhall School also offers CPD courses in Music Therapy. These are announced each spring.