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All Students preparing for Grade exams are recommended to use the Hofnotes on-line training pages to practise for the aural tests. 

At higher grades  you must be able to discuss with the examiner musical features such as texture, form, style, and period of a piece of music.  My own  web pages to help with these parts of the test at Grade 5+ and at GCSE are available here!

 

 

 

 

 

This page provides links to papers in three key areas of interest:

    Instrumental teaching

    Research on Literacies

    On-line and distributed learning

On-line and distributed learning

A selection of papers developed as part of the Masters Degree in On-line and Distance Education (MAODE) with the UK Open University, passed with distinction in 2005.

    Communities of practice: A view on the usefulness of the ideas of communities of practice in a distributed learning environment Click here for printable version. 

    Starting with learners' needs: Training needs analysis

    Technologies and the commodification of knowledge: How far can socio-cultural approaches to learning 'go beyond' their technologies?

    Detour, Mobility and Control:  A distributed business change project as an Actor Network

    Globalisation Exclusion and difference:  Two case studies of distributed learning - Telesecundaria in rural Mexico, and an Open University's Masters programme - are analysed for their responsiveness to issues of inclusion, diversity and difference

    Design and Deliver: A report on the implementation of on-line learning at a UK university.  click here for printable version

    Starting with our learners' needs (printable version) Training needs analysis

    Learner support  Supporting on-line study

    Cognitive Flexibility Theory Building highly transferable skills

Literacies

A selection of papers developed as part of the Masters Degree in On-line and Distance Education (MAODE) with the UK Open University, passed with distinction in 2005.

    Using ethnographic approaches to look at literacy practices in a Christianity basics course

    Children's use of collaborative talk in the KS2 classroom

    On-line talk and identity in a skateboarders forum

    The Story Machine - children's narrative practices in the Foundation classroom

Instrumental teaching

A selection of papers written for the Certificate in Teaching for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (CT ABRSM), gained in June 2006.

    Teaching special musicians: a paper on the issues and rewards of teaching music to hearing impaired learners

    Memorising: a printable page on tips for a systematic approach to learning music for performance

    Sightreading: a printable page on building your confidence in playing new pieces on sight

    Duet and ensemble playing: a critique of approaches to teaching duet technique

    a paper on teaching improvisation and composition

    a paper on the design of web pages for developing listening skills