Continuing Professional Development

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 September 2009 - August 2010 the Guildhall School is offering a year long CPD programme which consists of 3 core modules and an extended CPD+ course including a 5 day Connect project:

• Creative Skills
• Composition
• Workshop Leading
• CPD+ with Connect Project

The course is open to all musicians who wish to gain skills in workshop leading and collaborating with a variety of musical styles and cultures. Musicians (teachers, professionals and students) from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.

The CPD course offers a deeper insight into:

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

At the end of the course participants also have the opportunity to try out these skills in a creative music project with the Guildhall Connect Ensemble, Urban Sounds.

Contact: clare.catchpole@gsmd.ac.uk or 020 7382 2378

Download a brochure with further information (PDF, 36Kb)

Download an application form (Word doc, 149Kb)

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).

Course dates
One-to-One Teaching
28/29 January 2010

Small Group and Chamber Music Coaching
26/27 April 2010* Please note this date has changed from previous advertising

Venue
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, Barbican, London

Module fee
£337 (accredited); £210 (non-accredited)

Further information
Please contact Andrea Creech at a.creech@ioe.ac.uk

Music Therapy

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

Body Mapping

Details of the Body Mapping summer school due to be held at the School this July.

Body Mapping Summer Course