Learning and Teaching Approaches

A Music teacher training degree includes different teaching and learning approaches. Because of the huge amount of students in some universities, lectures are the common way to teach, but these lectures usually combine theoretical aspects with music making. The big group is occasionally divided in smaller subgroups in order to make practicable workshops or music-pedagogy practise. Portfolio and e-learning are not used often. Individual instrumental or singing classes do not exist.

Students can really only develop their teaching skills in the last of the six semesters, when they go to school. Here contact with the reality of school is close and intense. There they are supervised by a music teacher in coordination with a lecturer from the university, so students have the possibility to observe, to participate actively as a teacher and to compare their ideas with supervisors and other colleagues.

The use of the teaching technology differs from subject to subject. In general, new technologies are used mainly as a teaching and studying tool, with few possibilities to learn how to use music software in the classroom, although some universities offer extra courses for this.