Learning and Teaching Approaches

The most common forms of teaching in training courses for music teachers are private instruction in the main arts subjects (one or two instruments plus singing) and group instruction in the remaining arts, music theory, musicology and education theory subjects. Every now and again "master classes" in aspects of music education are held. Although electronic media are available as learning aids for topics related to music (arranging, composing, notation) they are not used in every year of the course. E-learning is also used in isolated instances.

Skills related to making the teaching activity more professional (presentation techniques) and working with learning software especially developed for use in schools are not taught as part of the training course but are left to the students to learn themselves.