10.00am - Registration and morning tea
10.30am - Session 1: Music, Mindset and Potential More than any other subject, music is considered a 'talent' that people either have or don't have, rather than an ability that can be fully developed through practice. The implications for musical learning are greatly impacted by teacher mindsets. This elephant in the music education classroom will be keenly investigated! (There will be a 15 minute break within this session)
12.45pm - Lunch
1.30pm - Annual General Meeting (members only)
2.15pm - Session 2: Driving Learning: Teacher-less teaching The great paradox in teaching is that expert teachers seem to 'teach' less, imparting very little of their own knowledge to their pupils. What, therefore, is the secret behind real teaching? Time to explore the learning power of metacognition, and how to teach it.
3.15pm - Afternoon tea
3.30pm - Session 3: Unlocking Musical Potential For musical progress, nothing is as important as the quality and the quantity of practice time. This interactive presentation will equip students, teachers, adult learners, and parents with the methods and mindset required to maximise the prospect of learning music enjoyably and successfully. Content and concepts include repetition (blocked, variable and spaced, brain myelination), chunking (the brain looks to recognise patterns, why theory matters, short-term memory considerations), slow practice (the brain’s learning preference, Rachmaninoff’s principle), the quantity of experts (Ericsson’s violinists), and much more.
4.30pm - Finish