Go to resource: A National Framework for Professional Standards for Teaching is a document which outlines national goals for teaching standards. Read more…
Go to resource: Arts in Education is published by the Australia Council 2004. This document outlines arts curricula in each state, and provides links to the bodies who develop and monitor these.
Sydney Morning Herald Article
http://news.smh.com.au/national/choral-singing-makes-you-happy-survey-20080710-3cyg.html
Go to resource: Education and the Arts Strategy was published by the Australia Council, following community consulation in 2004. Read more…
helpful article – Music teaching ideas for when you are ill or weak-of-voice
Go to resource: The History of Music Education in Australia by Robin Stevens is published on the Deakin University website and provides an outline of the development of music education from colonial settlement through to now. Read more…
www.theage.com.au/victoria/informality-the-key-to-get-music-students-to-tune-in-20101128-18cem.html
This article from The Age (2010) describes one Victorian school’s success with Musical Futures – Year 7 & 8.
Go to resource: Making the Progression: Report of the National Music Workshop, published 2007, follows on from the National Review of School Music Education. Read more…
Go to resource: More on Music Instruction of Classroom Teachers: Early Childhood, by Rachel Hocking, was published in the Music Forum Vol. 14, No. 3. Sydney: Music Council of Australia. Read more…
Go to resource: Music Education Articles – Music Forum, by the Music Council of Australia, is a list of sample articles on music education that have been published over the years.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/46048
Music Training Helps Learning & Memory
An article by William R Klemm from Psychology Today
Go to resource: The National Education and the Arts statement was jointly made by the Cultural Ministers’ Council and MCEETYA in 2005, and sets out the goals of arts education in Australia. Read more…
Go to resource: Pop focus in music education panned, written by Justine Ferrari and published in The Australian April 13 2009, the article outlines criticism of the inclusion of pop music in school music education programs.
Go to resource: Primary Arts Education: a brief Australian history, by Deirdre Russell-Bowie, was published in the Music Forum Vol 15 No 3, 2009.
free article – an article full of quotes from female music legends
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/happiness/singing-happy.htm#mkcpgn=tw1
This article confirms what many of us know – that singing (especially in groups) makes you happy.
Richard Tognetti and members of the ACO played for students at Matraville Soldiers Settlement Public School (thanks to the support of the Australian Children’s Music Foundation). The article’s content includes advocacy for music education in schools.
Go to resource: Staring a Primary school choir – advice from Sarah Malburg (UK) for “children’s chorus”. At the bottom of each article page is a link to the next topic (eg. Choir Warm-ups & Song Selection)
Go to resource: The Australian School System is an article on the Music in Australia Knowledge Base site that summarises the history and structure of music education in Australian schools, and is written by Dr Richard Letts. Read more…
Go to resource: The Rise of the Developmental Music Curriculum – An Aesthetic Approach to Music Education in Queensland, by Judith Hewton, is published in the Queensland Researcher QJER Vol 5 No 1, 1989. Read more…
Go to resource: Practical ideas for using computers in the Primary Music classroom. Resources provided by Katie Wardrobe at Midnight Music.
Gurrumul took out FIVE awards this year, at the National Indigenous Music Awards 2011!!!
www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/17/professional-songwriters-ivor-novello
This article describes a successful British song-writer’s approach to churning out hits – Shuckburgh.
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