This week I completed a professional development course that was a bit more intensive than the typical 2 hour workshop usually on offer. “Teaching Piano to Today’s Beginners Course” is an online course that has 4 modules to work through with homework activities – a good 8 hours of content…
I like to attend a variety of professional development activities throughout the year, to pick up new ideas and resources. Today I completed one on Tech Tools for Music Teachers through Midnight Music. Some of the tools covered I have been using for years, but I did learn about some…
Last month I attended the 2025 “Spotlight on Pedagogy” professional development day run by the Australian Guild of Music & Speech. I always enjoy attending these workshops and picking up fresh ideas for my students. I took the opportunity to stock up on my “Piano Odyssey” books.
An interesting Professional Development workshop I attended in August was a webinar called “Connecting the Dots”, which looked at using digital audio workstation (DAW) software in music education. I really enjoyed some of the example compositions by students – some of the exercises they had been given to do were…
The school holidays are a common time for Professional Development for music teachers, though other sessions are held regularly throughout the year through the various music teachers’ associations around Australia. Not all webinars I attend or watch back offer professional development certificates. One of the PD events for the June…