Primary Music Magazine
Issue 3.1 Spring 2019
Qualifying to teach Primary Music The Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators (Trinity CME) was developed in 2012 as part of the National Plan for Music Education, to provide a recognized qualification for music educators working with children and young With so few ITE people. Since then around 300 learners across courses offering the UK have engaged with this qualification, anything other than a many of whom have come through our own few hours of music Distance Learning centre for the qualification training, how can at Music Education Solutions®. primary teachers make The Trinity CME is suitable for anyone who sure they have the right works as a music educator with children and skills to teach music? young people, including those working in a With many schools primary teaching context. The beauty of this covering PPA with qualification is that it is tailored to the context external music in which you work, so you don’t have to have provision, how can musical qualifications to be able to take it. You just have to show that you have the necessary musicians ensure that they are suitably level of skill to teach the pupils that you have at the time of applying. Even the most qualified to teach in a curriculum setting? musically timid of primary teachers will acknowledge that they should be able to do Dr Liz Stafford what they’re asking a 7 year-old to do, and that is all that is required as a starting point! (Of investigates whether course, if you want to teach Grade 8 the Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators Trombone, then the requirements are going to could be the answer to be somewhat different!) both these questions? 48
