Learning and Teaching Approaches

The teacher training course includes – most commonly – single tuition in major and minor performance studies (one or two instruments and vocal tuition) as well as group tuition in other performance related areas. There is a significant difference between conservatoires and universities in terms of the amount of single tuition: the former in general has more of an emphasis on the performance side. Overall, certain forms of teaching such as “Seminar” (teacher training sessions) and “Übung” (exercises) outweigh the number of lectures. This all depends, in the end, also on the number of students. Many curricula include projects or “Projektkurs” (“project” modules) as a way of teaching. Tutor sessions are in place to support and supplement lectures and seminars. E-Learning is used occasionally.

Students are introduced to a variety of technical media to support their music-related studies (arranging, composing, notation) as well as to improve their professional teaching (presentation techniques) and awareness of teaching software specially designed for schools.