PGCert Performance Teaching

Our PGCert in Performance Teaching is designed to support professional musicians, actors, production artists and dancers who teach as part of their practice as performers either as their main employment or as part of a portfolio career.

It offers a unique opportunity to develop creative and reflective practice in teaching performing arts. You will be encouraged to identify a personal pathway for your development, focusing on the pedagogy of performance and creative practice in the performing arts, in specific contexts that are most relevant to your career aspirations.

We take your existing experience and expertise as a starting point, enabling you to bring practice and theory together, through engaging with cutting-edge pedagogy. You will be part of a community of artist-educators, learning from each other and building practical skills. Transformational learning involves trust and rapport with your students, openness to change, supporting independence, resourcefulness and resilience. You will embrace diverse perspectives and different learning styles.

The PGCert is part-time (over one or two years). Learning takes place online with approximately 13 days of online workshops combined with shorter webinars, plus study groups and support from a one-to-one tutor. Supported by a team of world-renowned educators, you will develop skills and knowledge in a range of areas such as:

• Fundamental principles and values in education
• Theories of learning and theories of motivation
• Approaches to facilitation
• Working with groups
• Creativity and pedagogical improvisation
• Partnership and collaborative working
• Reflective practice
• Inclusion and use of language
• Curriculum and assessment issues
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Professionalism and codes of practice
• Discipline-specific approaches

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