A New Reference for Music Teacher Education
The publication serves as a forward-looking reference document supporting and advocating for high-quality classroom music teaching in primary and secondary schools.
The learning outcomes are available in a concise and accessible poster booklet, presenting a set of 25 descriptors alongside background information and formulation principles. The set comprises 20 core descriptors and 5 transversal descriptors, which are mutually interlinked. Each transversal descriptor should be considered in relation to all core descriptors. Combining both types of descriptors helps to highlight potential music teachers’ activities, as illustrated in the online dynamic tool.
Key Design Principles
Key formulation principles include the use of short imperatives in the second person, the integration of musical and pedagogical competences, the use of a single set for both generalists and specialists, the omission of European Qualification Framework levels, and a degree of abstraction, ensuring compatibility with local reference frameworks. Further details about the design process will be published in an upcoming open-access book volume.
A Collaborative, Evidence-Based Development Process
Building on the existing meNet (2009) and EAS (2013) sets of learning outcomes for music teacher education, the new TEAM learning outcomes have emerged from a data-driven, multi-stakeholder process. This process included a scoping review of future-oriented trends across existing institutional, regional and national sets of descriptors, as well as feedback rounds involving our consortium partners, associated partners and EAS Special Focus Groups.
About the TEAM Project
The Teacher Education Academy for Music, Future-Making, Mobility and Networking in Europe (TEAM) is a pan-European collaborative research and development network (2023-2026). It aims to reshape initial and ongoing music teacher education (MTE) and school music education (ME) in Europe according to the current needs of music teacher professionalization, digitization, intercultural learning, future viability, sustainability and social coherence.
The TEAM Learning Outcomes working group consists of Thomas De Baets (chair, LUCA School of Arts & KU Leuven), Ann-Sophie De Praitere (LUCA School of Arts), Marina Gall (University of Bristol) and Isolde Malmberg (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).
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