Music-ITE

The QTS standards are often overlooked as a formalised opportunity to focus and reflect on the times that really define our practice – the personal and often informal exchanges between people.

What do we mean when we say of a student-teacher ‘the standards have been met’? Is it possible to make graduated judgements about progress towards the meeting of the Standards?

This resource is a summary of a research report examining student teachers’ attitudes towards the standards for qualified teacher status (QTS) and, in particular, how their perception of their difficulty changes during four PGCE courses, at the universities of Bath Spa, Oxford Brookes, Reading and Southampton.

This resource suggests how we might develop musicians who understand the totality of music education, drawing on best practice from all contexts and capable of brokering deals between different providers.

"One of the reasons for establishing this route was to widen academic participation, enabling people without a traditional, academic, musical background to develop a career in teaching."