Name: Composition: A CPD Workshop with Ear Opener Director Paul Clark (Afternoon)
Uploaded: 2023-07-04T13:26:30Z
Description: A three-hour Continued Professional Development workshop for music teachers offering simple solutions for teaching composition.

Composition: A CPD Workshop with Ear Opener Director Paul Clark (Afternoon)

Ear Opener aims to harness the creativity and ambition of young music makers, providing the tools for them to make the most of their musical ideas. We want to offer top quality tips and share expertise with everyone interested in making music.Ear Opener is produced by Clod Ensemble – an award-winning performance company with charitable status, based in London. Clod Ensemble has a strong reputation for providing innovative community and education projects, for all ages, teachers, artists and healthcare professionals. Clod Ensemble is a winner of the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.

Ear Opener

A three-hour Continued Professional Development workshop for music teachers offering simple solutions for teaching composition.

Do you teach people who are studying music for GCSE, A-Level or a similar qualification? Would you like to support your students in composition or generally up-skill how you teach? Whether you teach in school, freelance, or give private instrumental tuition, this Continued Professional Development workshop is for you.Teachers often only have a few minutes of 1-2-1 contact time with students. This course is intended to maximise the effectiveness of the feedback you give around teaching composition. What you will get from the CPD day:<ul><li>A﻿ fast-track approach to understanding the most common &quot;mistakes&quot; in GCSE and A-Level composition.</li><li>S﻿olutions - Identifying achievable, salient points that will help your students to increase their enjoyment of writing music as well as raising their marks.</li><li>Information on h﻿ow to use our video resources in the classroom or for home learning to supplement your own teaching.</li><li>A﻿n Ear Opener resource pack to take home and support your teaching.</li></ul>We have 17 years of expertise in teaching composition. Our programme is based on conversations with teachers, students and examiners. The programme is accompanied by the Ear Opener video resource which helps teachers and students to identify and quickly resolve the most common mistakes in composition. The channel has had over 250,000 views from teachers and young musicians and features interviews with successful musicians including Brian Eno, Errolyn Wallen, Cassie Kinoshie, Carly Paradis and Ed O’Brien (Radiohead). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@EarOpener" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@EarOpener</a>On average, student contact with the Ear Opener programme lifts exam results by 1.5 grades. In the last academic year, one of our London partner schools achieved a 92% average mark for GCSE composition, and at A-Level one of our partner colleges had 15 students achieve grades A-C.“These are the best results in composition I have ever had the good fortune to open in my 10 years at City and Islington, and in my 20 years of teaching A Level Music.”– Jack Davies, Head of Music at City and Islington College.Who is this session for?Music teachers who teach composition to students aged 14-25. This includes UAL qualifications at Level 1-4 as well as BTEC, GCSE and A-Level Music.C﻿ontentThis CPD day will be led by Paul Clark, an award-winning composer and creator of the popular music education video series Ear Opener. The session will be in 3 parts:<ol><li>C﻿ommon &quot;mistakes&quot; and how to remedy them.</li><li>Simplicity/Complexity: exploring and exploding myths about different musical genres.</li><li>Tension/Release: how it works in different styles.</li></ol>Learning outcomes:<ul><li>Develop confidence in supporting students composing in any musical genre – especially genres that you don’t personally enjoy or have much expertise in.</li><li>Guidance how to use Ear Opener video channel to help students when you have limited contact time.</li><li>Identify common issues young people face when writing music and learn practical ways of supporting students to overcome these.</li><li>Find common languages for discussing musical ideas.</li><li>Develop ways of actively supporting critical discussion around composition.</li><li>L﻿earn how to encourage students to accept guidance on improving their work and help them to understand the virtues of simplicity.</li></ul>Participants will be invited to share their own experiences working in schools and colleges, along with techniques and tips that have worked for them. About the FacilitatorPaul Clark has over thirty years of experience as a composer. He has collaborated with a hugely diverse range of artists, from pop producer Danger Mouse to opera superstar Renee Fleming to The Fall’s Mark E. Smith. He has worked with orchestras and choirs in the UK and Europe, Cairo, New York and Kuwait. He also has 15 years experience of helping young people to develop tools for writing their own music, whatever the genre. Paul is Co-Artistic Director of acclaimed performance company Clod Ensemble. What is Ear Opener?Ear Opener is both a YouTube channel and a programme which works with educators and music students.Ear Opener aims to demystify the process of writing music as well as acknowledging and celebrating the fact that there are innumerable ways of making brilliant music.Ear Opener videos are not “how to” guides; rather, they are are conversations with nine musicians who come from different genres, different ages, different educational backgrounds and different profiles. Musicians featured in Ear Opener videos include world-famous artists such as Brian Eno and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien as well as up-and-comers like Anglo-Bahraini jazz artist Yazz Ahmed and the Mercury Prize-nominated Cassie Kinoshi.The Ear Opener programme of live in-school courses for GCSE and A-Level Music students has produced demonstrable positive outcomes. Learners who participate in Ear Opener’s school programmes achieve an average result of grade A-C.https://earopener.co.uk/

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