How does a global organization effect a Music
Curriculum across all of its Schools?
3. European Music Festivals and Choral Concerts
4. Performing Arts Workshops with Juilliard
(including the Summer Performing Arts
European workshop)
For my Masters study I have been researching how
a global organization effects a music curriculum
across all of its schools. This arose from frequent
questions in my school community about how to
implement Juilliard Creative Curriculum (JCC)
alongside the four other music curricula that we
teach.
This involved researching previous collaborations
on music curriculum outside NAE and I found the
number one feature needed for continued success
is communication. I then went about utilising the
next Juilliard artist visit to communicate the
professional and organisational benefits and
needs to my colleagues. I put together a one day
programme that involved our guest vocal artist in
workshops and performances for parents, staff,
marketing and the admissions team plus some
local music stores. At all of the performances I
presented on the 5 key values of a JCC lesson and
how the collaboration could be seen in a variety of
ways around our school...
1. Performing Arts Resources via Juilliard
Creative Classroom
2. Professional development opportunities for
teachers
Jamie Gibson
Director of Performing Arts
The British School Warsaw
I presented on the core works and how best to
align Juilliard Creative Classroom with the
curriculum requirements in the form of policies
from Poland, UK Curriculum, IGCSE Music and IB
Diploma Music. The presentation finished with a Q
& A session and a short video which you can watch
below. The video shows how my department has
started this year taking our peripatetic
instrumental tutors to our early years campus and
exploring the core works through a one day
workshop.
A music curriculum specialist for the global K-12
programs has suggested in my study that ?I would
love to see more/all teachers sharing ideas and
resources regionally, and even globally on NAU? .
Because so much of this work is about the process
and experience, I think it?s important to find
creative ways of sharing the work (done in the
classroom) in a non-performance situation? (from
a personal communication, September 2018).
I believe this artist visit format goes a long way to
helping achieve this. You can get involved by
encouraging your colleagues to collaborate on
NAU and to have these same conversations ? is
your
Collaboration
developing
teacher
collaboration?