How to Advocate for Music as a Subject | The Secondary Music Teaching Series
Learn how to advocate for your subject in secondary schools with Jenetta Hurst as part of our Secondary Music Teaching Series.
How can we ensure a rich programme of extra-curricular music-making amidst the backdrop of staff retention challenges in the UK? What stays and what goes in your programme? To what extent are you considering staff wellbeing and engaging the full support of your school leadership team to give all students the best experience?
Part of The Secondary Music Teaching Series
This session is part of a wider series for teachers and those leading secondary music, we take a deeper dive into key areas of classroom teaching, refocusing on strategic action and decisions that impact the quality of teaching and learning.
- 16 October | The Nuts & Bolts of Behaviour in the Music Room
- 27 November | The National Plan for Music Education
- 15 January | How to Advocate for Music as a Subject
- 26 February | Embedding Diversity in your Music Teaching
Music is a cornerstone of the broad and balanced education that every child should receive. It touches hearts and minds, it celebrates and challenges, and it connects us and moves us. In the same way that we teach children literacy and numeracy to prepare them for adult life, we must also give them the musical tools they need for a lifetime of music-making and enjoyment.
DfE., 2022, p 7
About Jenetta
Jenetta Hurst is a music specialist, flautist and school leader with 19 years’ experience leading secondary music in a range of settings. Jenetta sits on the Strategic Board of Lambeth Sounds Music Education Hub and is an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Conservatoire.
In the interim, you can connect with Jenetta directly via her website as well as view blogs, past projects and creative interviews with a range of practitioners at The Creative Educator website.
Accessibility
- Technology: Zoom
- Captioning: AI-Generated
- Breakout rooms: TBC
- Recording: Whole group sessions will be recorded for the purpose of sharing with course delegates and only available for a time limited period after the session.
If you would like to request presentation slides, questions and provocations in advance of the session, please get in touch with info@musicmark.org.uk. Speakers may decline sharing this information on the basis of protecting their intellectual property or for other reasons and we cannot therefore guarantee availability for all events.
About the Provider
Music Mark
We are a membership organisation, Subject Association, and an Arts Council England Investment Principles Support Organisation (IPSO) advocating for excellent musical learning in and out of school.
