The Nuts and Bolts of Behaviour in the Music Room | The Secondary Music Teaching Series

This first session dives into the nuts and bolts of behaviour in the music room to help you get the best from your students. We’ll look at the theory of classroom management, the realities of managing behaviour in practice, what happens when things go wrong and how to use the power of engagement whilst aligning with your school behaviour policy.

Indeed, there is a common assumption that one must control a class before one can teach it. This, we shall argue is a fallacy for it is through the effective teaching of the subject that pupils can be induced to behave well. Many of the causes of misbehaviour can be pre-empted if the music lesson is: well-planned; well prepared with, for example, stimulating resources; interesting; suitably differentiated; musical.
Philpott, C [Ed]., 2001, p 70

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.