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Self-evaluation of competence for teaching Music by the students of Class Teacher Studies

This paper describes the study conducted in the Republic of Croatia during the 2012/13 academic year. The participants of the study were fourth year students at the class teacher studies (N = 307), who evaluated their own competence for teaching music The goal was to determine if the music course syllabi at the class teacher studies develop the appropriate competencies required by the students to teach Music in primary education. The research study showed that the students are mostly unaware of how low their competences are, and consequently they assigned high marks to their competence for teaching music classes in primary education, for the general teaching performance and for each specific topic. The students have emphasized the need for more practical training, primarily regarding playing instruments and singing, and they pointed out the course Teaching Methods for Teaching Music as the key course for training future teachers to teach music. The musical competences of primary education teachers cannot be determined in any other way than from the perspective of the lesson plan and programme of the primary school music courses. At the class teacher studies learning music must follow the path from practice to theory, or in other words, when there is insufficient time, music must be learned from the music itself.

class teacher studies, student competences to teach music, primary education

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