Student revision webinars

I’ll be running two student revision webinars with Keynote Educational this year – focusing on component 3 and component 4 for A Level Music Technology.

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Pearson Edexcel A Level Music Technology network events – component 3

You can watch back the recording of this Pearson event I presented last week on YouTube.

Teaching Pearson / Edexcel A Level Music Technology for the First Time

I had a great time delivering training with Keynote Educational in Kensington last Monday, supporting teachers who are delivering A Level Music Technology for the first time, returning after a break or indeed who are directors and heads of music line managing music technology teachers.

This was actually the first Keynote face-to-face I have delivered since January 2020, pre pandemic (which was also in Kensington if I recall correctly)!

The course considered the structure of the course and delivery methods, and then the requirements of each component in turn.

Delegate feedback was extremely positive, and I enjoyed everyone’s contribution to the day!

Get in touch if you’re looking for music technology training via the contact page.

Music technology teacher CPD at the University of Huddersfield

I thoroughly enjoyed delivering a keynote speech at the University of Huddersfield’s teacher CPD day in July. Having started discussing the day pre-COVID it seems fitting that the focus involved our reflections on the topic of engagement in music technology, and how we might develop strategies to inspire and support this for all students in FE and HE.

The day also featured workshops on synthesis and acoustics, live music, the opportunity to have a look around the university, explore research on engagement through multimodality and the chance to meet other music technology teachers.

Saxophone remote recording

I am available for saxophone recordings and can do this work remotely in a high quality studio environment.

I recently recorded a saxophone solo with the fantastic Toby Renwick on Alfie and the Avalon’s brilliant ‘Good Old Days’. Listen here:

Get in touch if you are looking for a sax solo, delivered quickly and easily!

EDUQAS AoS E Resources

As we near exam time again, here are a couple of resources I put together for AoS E EDUQAS A Level Music on YouTube – video analyses of the Poulenc and Debussy works. These are completely free on YouTube but if they’re useful – feel free to support via purchasing a PDF copy via TES Resources here.

Teaching A Level Music Technology for the first time

It was great working with some more Keynote Education delegates to talk about teaching Pearson Edexcel A Level Music Technology for the first time a few weeks ago. Head over to the Keynote website to find out more about future courses or click here to read their Summer course booklet.

Keynote courses – aiming for A* and achieving in the written papers

It’s been a busy couple of Mondays presenting for Keynote Educational and running courses focused on teaching and learning in A Level Music Technology.

Thanks to all of the delegates for their engagement and contributions; I’ll be working with Keynote again in the new year so keep an eye on their website for details of the next courses I’ll be running.

Aiming for A/A* in A Level Music Technology

I enjoyed leading this course last week for Keynote Educational online. Get in touch if you’re interested in A Level Music Technology training, advice or resources!

#TBSEdCon21

I recently enjoyed presenting for The British School’s 2021 conference, entitled ‘reflecting, redefining, reimagining’.

My two sessions were focused on music technology in secondary and post-16 music, with a focus on both music technology as a tool to facilitate musical learning and specific music technology skills.

I’ve decided to share some of the resources and videos I used in my sessions here. To put them into context, one of the sessions was focused on tasks involving sampling, the other more associated with general ways of integrating music technology into teaching and resources to support teachers in doing so.