Posts by Mark Taylor
Start Your Day With Gratitude & Change Your Life
I hope this podcast can help you create the daily experience that supports you to be the best ‘you’ you can be for all those you teach.
Georgian Benta – Gratitude Podcast
Inspiring 100,000 People to Live Grateful Lives Gratitude is the one thing that helped me most in my life from all the personal development and spiritual practices that I did and that’s why I want to inspire 100.000 people to discover how to feel grateful more often and live a happy life. “It’s not happiness that makes us grateful; it’s gratefulness that makes us happy.” – David Steindl-Rast I do this by interviewing successful people and getting them to share fascinating stories about how gratitude has helped them get to where they are now, what they did when it was hard to feel grateful and what they do to be grateful consistently as a habit for a beautiful life. The Gratitude Podcast is meant to be your weekly source of inspiration, to lift you up when you feel down, to help you find new ways of making gratitude a habit, so you’re life is filled with more and more reasons to be grateful and happy.
061: Season 4 round up with Peter Cansell
Peter Cansell and I discuss what we have learned from the Education on Fire podcast season 4 – Music and the Arts. 20 episodes of great resources.
Peter Cansell is my resident education expert. The person who provides the bigger picture and will tell me that you can’t just play music all day at school other subjects are important too!
Peter has been in education professionally for 35 years, teaching in middle schools in Oxford, doing advisory work, teaching higher education and as a Primary Headteacher at Harwell Primary School. He retired from that post in September 2014, but has continued as Chair of OPHTA (Oxfordshire Primary Headteachers’ Association), was elected to become Chair of the National Network of Chairs of Headteachers’ Groups in June 2014 and was delighted to have become a NAPE council member this year, serving on the editorial board for Primary First. In January of 2015 he co-founded the Oxford School of Thought, an independent education think tank. He is a trustee and chairs the management committee of another charity, Full Circle, which is well regarded for its ground breaking intergenerational work.
- Subscribe to the podcast on your iPhone or iPad at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/education-on-fire/id1185244875
- On Android http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=126031&refid=stpr
- Listen on the website https://www.educationonfire.com
Season 4 starts here https://www.educationonfire.com/040-season-4-launch-show-music-arts-schools/
Teacher Development Fund from Paul Hamlyn Foundation
If you are a school or arts organisation that would like to apply for funding to support teachers deliver arts in our primary schools this is available now from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
The Purpose of the Fund
The purpose of the Teacher Development Fund is to support delivery of effective arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in the primary classroom, and to embed learning through the arts in the curriculum. It aims to do this through supporting teachers and school leaders to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, confidence and experience.
Each year we expect to make around five grants of up to £150,000 to partnerships of arts/cultural organisations and up to ten schools, who will work together for two academic years.
There will be a single annual deadline for the Teacher Development Fund. The next deadline is 23 March 2018.
Our focus is on:
- Primary schools
- Supporting children and young people experiencing disadvantage
- Approaches which involve learning through the arts
- Long-term, inquiry-based projects which support teachers’ professional development and learning
- Promoting effective and equitable partnerships between schools and arts/cultural organisations and artist practitioners
- The contributions of school leaders and artist practitioners as both professional learners and as supporters of embedding learning through the arts in the curriculum
- Approaches which involve any of the following art forms: crafts; creative writing, including poetry; dance; design; film; music; opera; photography; digital arts and media; theatre and drama; the visual arts; and cross-arts practices.
In order to understand the context of teacher continuing professional development and learning across the UK, PHF has funded seven pilot projects (June 2016 to July 2018). During the pilot phase, we have worked in partnership with the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE) who has undertaken formative evaluation and delivered a programme of grantee learning. An evaluation report on the first year of the pilot phase is available here.
The films and blogs included in this area of the site give further detail about the purpose and priorities of the Teacher Development Fund and the work of the pilot projects.
If you would like to receive details of future deadlines for the Teacher Development Fund, please e-mail ela@phf.org.uk.
060: Sue Nicholls – Primary Music Specialist
Sue Nicholls worked as a music subject leader in many primary settings during her career as a teacher. She has published several music resource books for non-specialists for A&C Black and OUP and contributed material to many other publications. Sue now works as an independent music education consultant leading workshops and courses for schools and music hubs.
Links to information in this podcast:
David Liggins – Ocarina
ISM Webinars – Primary Music
Certificate for Music Educators – Trinity
059: Syncphonia – Replace paper scores with a digital system for your tablet
Designed and refined over two years, working with amateur and professional ensembles, Syncphonia replaces paper scores with a digital system which synchronises to the beat of a conductor or lead musician. The current bar and beat are highlighted, so players can’t get lost, pages are turned automatically, and new parts can be distributed in seconds over a wireless network.
Syncphonia provides seamless, intuitive technology to enhance the experience of ensemble performance for all.
The Syncphonia system features:
- Conductor-controlled, synchronised digital notation for ensemble scores and parts
- Library of 8 scores, with parts for all abilities
- Hands free page turns, with look ahead, so you know what’s coming next
- Low latency bluetooth networking
Conductor app allows you to:
- Organise and manage your orchestral library
- Share new parts across the ensemble in seconds
- Intuitively and expressively control tempo
- User metronomic tempo control for rehearsals
- Jump to bar or figure
Performer app features:
- Dynamic position highlighting so you never get lost
- Instant selection between available instrumental parts
- Preview page scroll during rehearsal downtime
Find out more at http://www.syncphonia.co.uk
twitter: @syncphonia
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/syncphonia-conductor/id1267828984?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/syncphonia-performer/id1267918984?mt=8