Teach Irish Traditional Music & Song (Foundation Certificate)

This foundation certificate course is brought to you by I Teach Trad in association with the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM). 

It is designed for Irish traditional music/song teachers looking to improve their teaching skills and commit to their professional development. It is intended for existing teachers and/or for those musicians/singers who are considering teaching traditional music/song in the future. 

This course provides teachers with a framework for planning and delivering traditional music lessons, for learners of any age, on any instrument (incl. voice), and at any stage of their learning journey. The framework enables teachers to offer students a well-rounded music learning experience, one that is not simply tune-/song-led. It helps teachers re-think and re-imagine how they teach traditional music/song in order to help them meet the needs of today’s learners.  

Teachers will be introduced to new tools and strategies for planning and delivering traditional music/song lessons. And they will engage in reflective practice. 

This short course is for:

• Existing traditional music/song teachers who want to refresh and improve their teaching skills.
• Traditional musicians/singers who are planning to teach.
• Traditional music teachers of any instrument.
• Traditional music/song teachers working in any setting (schools, in the community, festivals and events, online and in-person, synchronous and asynchronous).
• Traditional music/song teachers based anywhere in the world (the course is fully online).

Course Schedule:  Sunday, April 7th, 2024 – Sunday, 2nd June, 2024 (ends)

Week 1 (Sunday, 7th April) – Introductory session (5 pm – 6.30 pm, live on zoom; the link will be emailed in advance)

Week 1-7 (7th April-26th May):  – 20 hours contact time / 20 hours self-directed work. A course workbook (in digital and printable formats) will be made available

Week 8 (26th May -2nd June): – Individual online viva assessments (will be scheduled).

Online Course materials will be available until 30/6/2024.