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Honour Specialist Music AQ (Queen’s, Fall 2023, Online)

October 2, 2023 to December 8, 2023

  • Category: AQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Arts
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)

Welcome to a journey that you, as part of our group of Music Educators, are about to take. As “culture bearers” in our schools and communities, we hold a place of significance and responsibility. The concept of “culture” in itself is fluid, complex, and changing, in our communities, in Canada, and indeed, around the world. As we bridge the many musical “cultures” with the web of cultures in our school community, we are continually trying to make sense of these, for ourselves and others. Some times we experience a clash of cultures, as our cultural norms don’t mesh with those of our students. We are both teachers and learners as the world changes before us.

The underlying purpose of the Additional Qualification course Honour Specialist Music is to focus on curriculum leadership. The course addresses contexts and theories underpinning the study of music. Pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and evaluation, technology, child and adolescent development related to program planning and implementation are addressed. Candidates will explore leadership issues in various ways including independent reading and reflection. Candidates will work with colleagues and participate in projects including a course culminating activity which is designed to synthesize learning from the course for application to teaching practice. The course is designed to promote strategies that support students’ conceptual development and enduring understandings.

This leadership course has been developed for teachers who already have a deep level of learning about subject content and pedagogy gained from practical teaching experience, professional reading and previous course work.

Topics in this course include:
– Major views of student learning in Music
– New research and resulting implication for pedagogy
– Developments, application and issues of technology in the Music classroom
– Creativity and multiculturalism in Music Education
– Alternative assessment possibilities
– Working on teams and decision making
– A culminating project which will provide useful “artifacts” which call upon a wide range of theoretical leanings and practical applications, to be used in your role as a teacher and leader in education.