Planning your program
Getting your plan started
The best approach to planning the future of your music learning program is to document the present. What does the program look like now? Write a description of the current program with the following in mind.
Vision
Is there a common documented vision? Seek input from parents and students as well as school leadership and specialist and instrumental teachers. How does the vision for music correlate with the school’s values, vision and ethos? How do members of the school community support each other in achieving their goals or realising this vision?
Plan
Is there a five-year music learning program plan that includes measurable goals and timelines to review and update it?
People
Who currently drives, leads and supports the music learning program? Who else might be involved to strengthen it and ensure succession planning?
Resources
Document the roles, goals, learning spaces, equipment, technology, performance spaces and plans to build resources.
Curriculum delivery
Map the music learning program (classroom and instrumental components) against the curriculum and explicitly identify where content descriptions and achievement standards are addressed using curriculum mapping templates.
Performance and presentation
Make a list of opportunities identifying when students can share their work, including playing and singing as a social activity, publishing recordings and concerts.
Pedagogy
Are specific music methodologies used? How are learning approaches or instructional models that operate across the school implemented in Music?
Assessment
How do students evaluate their own progress and get feedback on their development? What assessment strategies do teachers use? How is the idea of a learning continuum shared and promoted through the program?
Evaluation
What are the questions that need to be asked of the program? When, how and by whom will they be asked? How will responses be documented? Who will read the report?
Music: Curriculum mapping templates
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