New Zealand Workshops

Musical Futures International is returning to Auckland in July 2022 with two workshop options.
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Hear | Listen | Play | Create

AUCKLAND
Friday July 8, 2022
9.30 – 3.00pm
Pinehurst School
Albany
​Explore new Musical Futures materials, resources and approaches designed to develop greater learner autonomy, enjoyment and creativity.  Based on the work of Professor Lucy Green and from her book Hear, Listen, Play – How to Free Your Students Aural, Improvisation and Performance Skills
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The workshop and supporting classroom resources explores:
  • It's the way we learn - how students (and teachers) identify notes and chords, how we learn and play by ear using chords  and how our musical brain responds?  as the title suggests start by hearing,  then through listen and to playing, making and creating
  • Composing and improvising - warm ups and games to establish a whole class ethos for music making and creative risk taking 
  • Create whole class workshop music making  from scratch, involving improvisation across a range of musical styles
  • Use simple online resources that allow students to collaborate, record, share and publish their work
  • Includes ALL new classroom resources that provide your students with the experiences that need to allow them to play by ear identifying notes, melodies, chords and progressions
  • Lunch and refreshments are included
​About Hear|Listen|Play|Create​Hear, Listen, Play! is a book written by Lucy Green for all music teachers who are curious about the worlds of ear-playing, informal learning, improvisation, and vernacular music. Based on research that built on her previous work into how popular musicians learn in the informal realm, Lucy applies many aspects of their learning practices to three main areas within music education. It first tackles one-to-one specialist instrumental lessons before turning to ensemble work such as band and orchestra and finally to the generalist or specialist classroom.

This book is not a prescription for one particular way of teaching or learning, and it does not aim to critique, replace or change the excellent practices that are already on-going in the diverse world of music education and pedagogy. Rather, it offers something which is likely to be new to many teachers, and which they can add in to the mix.
In her book, Lucy examines how students in different contexts learn to play by ear. By replicating the original task used with students, our HLP workshop helps teachers to understand how they play by ear, raises awareness of other ways of learning music aurally and considers strategies to support students to engage with this method of musical learning which is central to the Musical Futures Informal Learning approach. 

New Approaches | New Resources 

AUCKLAND
Saturday July 9, 2022
9.30 – 3.00pm
Pinehurst School
Albany
This is a practical, hands-on day that will take you through a range of classroom strategies supported by suite of online resources that can be accessed anywhere, anytime and on any device

Think you know Musical Futures? Think again.  

Join one of the original Informal Learning Pilot Teachers,  Anna Gower and experienced Musical Futures Trainer and Musial Futures International Director Ken Owen  for a comprehensive overview of  Musical Futures.

We will examine the core pedagogy that underpins Musical Futures and its relevance, explore resources new and old, identify some starting points and you will take away all the resources you need to get started with Musical Futures in your classroom the very next day!

Then explore the new Musical Futures International resource-supported program, designed to support students to grow into independent, informal learners through our tried and tested classroom pedagogies. Spanning formal, informal and non formal approaches to music learning, for the first time, each resource is accessible via one URL. 

This session which will include:
  • A walk through of all the new resources available 
  • Learn how these new resources connect with a Musical Futures informal learning approach 
  • Share some ideas for how you can get started using them right away with your students 

You will take away all the resources you need to get started with Musical Futures in your classroom the very next day!

The workshop program includes:
  • Informal Learning approaches
  • New classroom strategies
  • Transitioning students from whole class to small group and individual learning
  • Upskilling students on backline instruments
  • Developing and using aural skills and critical listening
  • Building learner independence
  • Lunch and refreshments




 
Workshop leaders
Anna Gower (UK/Thailand) Head of Training and Development, Musical Futures International
Ken Owen – Director of Musical Futures Australia and Musical Futures International
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Fees
Each workshop fee is $255.00 per teacher and includes lunch, refreshments and a suite of take home resources.  Second and subsequent teachers from the same school $145.00 per teacher inc GST.
​Registration is essential


​Online Training and Webinar Program

Musical Futures International Webinars are designed to deliver insightful, relevant and interactive professional development for teachers and come with an accompanying package of free resources in our brand new online URL format. With new dates and titles being added for Later in school year 2022, all of our webinars are delivered by expert Musical Futures teachers who are currently working in schools and embedding and building on Musical Futures core approaches across their practice.
Materials and resources

  • Each activity includes take home resource packs and lesson plans you can immediately use in the classroom
  • Membership of Musical Futures includes access to future members-only resources  included, as is 
  • Access to our international teacher network to share ideas with like-minded teachers across the world.​

​How does Musical Futures help my students and teaching?
  • ​Improves the transition from junior to secondary music
  • Develop fresh ideas for composing, improvising and songwriting and whole class work shopping for primary and secondary classes
  • Introduce new ideas for inclusive extra – curricular music in school
  • Challenge more advanced instrumental players through new routes to learning music in class
  • Get more students taking up instrumental lessons on a wider range of instruments
  • Increase participation in concerts and performances
  • Improve engagement with classroom music for all ages
  • Increase numbers of students opting to participate in music
  • Supports and connects with New Zealand and IB curriculum​
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In addition to the workshop and resources your workshop fee includes lunches and refreshments.