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Discover the stories behind the music with Classical Everywhere and Classical Everyone at The Archive for Education
Do you teach music? Then you will find a lot of suitable teaching material in the online image bank of the Archive for Education . Discover the history, people and theory behind the world of classical music with the TV series Classical Everywhere …
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Scale Challenge: Manual
In this article, Joris explains how he came up with the scale challenge and how you can get started with it. He explains which steps he has taken himself and which tools he finds useful.
The videos that belong to this scale challenge can be found …
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Oblique strategies: Less suggestion
Producer, musician and composer Brian Eno was an important inspiration for David Bowie, Coldplay and U2 among others. He developed a card set Oblique Strategies from 1974. The cards contain bizarre assignments that help musicians to break free from …
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Minimum Maximum: Lestip
The German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann decorates traditional oil paintings with red noses or cross-eyed. What strikes? Minimal intervention, maximum effect. Do you also try this out with your students with their score as a work product?
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Irritate with Brian Eno: Lesson Suggestion
Producer Brian Eno likes to impose restrictions on his artists. He taped the fingers of Coldplay's Chris Martin together to force him to play the piano in a new way.
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Listen better to your student during instrument class
A violin teacher noticed that she always looked at the technical aspect: the bow stroke that is not correct, a wrong fingering, the thumb that is not in the right place ...
This post is part of the weekly blog of Erik Schrooten , founder of Kunstig …
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Making an inspiration list for a musical work: Lesson suggestion
Violinist Stephen Nachmanovitch and pianist Ron Fein juxtaposed images from magazines with their scores. They were inspired by the images to give musical works their own (meaningful) atmosphere.
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See resistance as a sign of commitment: Change tips
Change almost always provokes resistance, including within the Dendermonde academy. 'But rather that than indifference,' says expert on educational innovation Virginie März. She discusses how to deal with that resistance with director …
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Differentiation means letting each student grow as much as possible
Hans De Volder, director of the Beveren Art Academy, plays ping pong about the opportunities for differentiation that the new decree entails and does so with educational expert Katrien Struyven (UHasselt, VUB). The same lesson, the same piece and …
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Student participation in part-time art education
The Merksem Academy , also known as the first Children's Rights Academy in Belgium, took on the challenge of developing a trajectory on children's rights in part-time art education. Isn't that difficult if you only see your students for …
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Evaluate without numbers
The North Limburg Art Academy has long ceased to work with figures on its evaluations. In 2012, the school started experimenting with a new evaluation system. Could that be done without points and with more emphasis on the process? After 5 years of …
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From student tracking system to evaluation sheet
The Municipal Academy for Music, Word and Dance in Turnhout further developed the student monitoring system. The document grew exponentially with the arrival of the new decree. Yet it remains a useful working tool. Lydia Rommes, piano teacher and …
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