About this guide

Overview

Enjoying, learning about and making music are activities that are open to every human being. People of all ages, cultures and abilities are able to experience and create music. The music people enjoy, learn about and make is as diverse as every human being.

This guide embraces diversity. It shares some of the many ways of experiencing, creating and learning about music, and highlights the qualities that effective and sustainable music learning programs have in common.

The guide offers:

• starting places for planning and teaching
• examples of high-quality music learning programs
• ideas for developing existing music learning programs
• information about music
• ideas to connect a music learning program across your school and with your community
• information about music education methods
• case studies of a range of successful programs to draw ideas from
• links to partners, resources and professional learning opportunities.

 

The guide provides users with a way forward – to inspire others, to plan, to take action and to implement change. The music learning programs that have helped to inform this guide all exist because people had a vision for them, created them and worked to sustain them.

It is hoped that this guide will give you the impetus and confidence to create or strengthen the music learning program in your school.

This guide caters to different school situations and program types: generalist and specialist teachers; primary and secondary schools; metropolitan and rural schools; in-the-classroom and outside-of-the-classroom, instrumental learning and programs integrated with the community.

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