Music

CPD Workshops 2022/2023

This section contains the professional learning materials and supporting resources for the cluster CPD 2022/2023 entitled...

 

RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN THE JUNIOR CYCLE MUSIC CLASSROOM.

 

We invite you to download and/or print the booklets below prior to engaging with this CPD.

The JCT (Jazz Classical Trad) Suite is the stimulus used throughout this CPD. This is an arrangement by the JCT Music Team, of the 1977 song, 'Lovely Day', composed by the American soul and RnB singer Bill Withers and Skip Scarborough. It is arranged in the styles of Jazz, Classical and Traditional Irish. The finished suite can be explored through the editable scores and/or MP3s below.

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RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN THE JUNIOR CYCLE MUSIC CLASSROOM

 

Slides 1-42 investigate...

 

  • the key aspects of change brought about by Junior Cycle Reform with a focus on the most significant change i.e., the Dual Approach to Assessment
  • how we place Students at the Centre of the Learning
  • the Why, What and How of Prior Learning
  • Learning Outcomes: the ABOUT and the DOING of the learning

RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN THE JUNIOR CYCLE MUSIC CLASSROOM

 

Slides 43-54 use The JCT Suite classroom supports to explore the five strategies of Formative Assessment through interrogating...

 

  • WHY these strategies are integral to routine classroom practice
  • WHAT each strategy entails 
  • HOW these strategies might sound in the music classroom

For further classroom supports

for Irish Traditional Music,

please click on the link to the right

RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN THE JUNIOR CYCLE MUSIC CLASSROOM

 

Slides 55-67 inform how Digital Learning Technologies (DLT) can amplify this learning through adapting the score you chose from The JCT Suite for your school context and students.