The Music Education Podcast Ep.1
- Nate Holder
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min read
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for The Music Education Podcast with Chris Woods. We spent some time breaking down a few stanzas from my poem 'If I Were A Racist' and wider issues around decolonisation within music education.
I just finished listening to the episode 2 with Martin Fautley (highly recommended to follow on Twitter) in which he talks about some of the issues music teachers and music education face in relation to music teaching and safety in COVID-19. Well worth a listen!
Signed my kid up for online math tutoring a while back and figured I would share what actually happens in practice rather than what the marketing pages say. The first session was a diagnostic, tutor spent it mapping out what my kid actually knew versus what the school assumed was covered, and the gaps were bigger than expected. That part was useful because it gave a realistic baseline instead of guessing. After each lesson there is a small set of practice tasks, nothing overwhelming, maybe fifteen minutes, but it does help the material stick between sessions. If anyone is comparing options, there is a decent breakdown here https://brighterly.com/math-courses/ that covers the format and how the personalized plans are structured. Progress…