CRAFTING LEADERS THROUGH MUSIC IN EVERY CLASSROOM.
EDUCATION CENTRE
Time to deliver your Music Leader Award? Choose your level and access your course materials below!
MLUK IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF YOU'RE...
- A school, college, independent training provider, or other setting working with young people aged 11-25.
- Able to pass our quality assurance check and the centre approval process.
- Have a teacher/tutor able to deliver the awards (can be delivered standalone, or as part of a larger qualification).
- Have a teacher/tutor able to be an internal verifier - someone who has not be involved in the delivery of the award.
- Keen to let your students lead their learning, pursuing the music they love in a way that suits them.
FAQs
There is no external assessment. A series of worksheets can be provided to check knowledge and understanding, or teachers are at liberty to provide their own knowledge checks provided they meet the required outcomes. The final assessment will require internal verification by a tutor who has not been involved in the delivery of the award.
Music Leader Level 1 can be delivered by a teacher who has some musical ability but not necessarily a formal music teaching qualification.
This depends on what instruments/genres/methods the students want to explore. – we do not prescribe this. The award can be completed with no resources other than a classroom, for example if singing is selected for the assessment.
Yes. The units can easily be adapted to all levels of ability and learning needs – particularly at Level 1. Call us to talk about the needs of your learners.
Level 1: Yes. There’s a 50% overlap between the learning outcomes of Level 1, and the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. We provide a resource that maps these. So the 15 hours of teaching contact time can take place within the (approximately) statutory 39 hours per year of Key Stage 3 music curriculum delivery.
Level 2: The award can enhance your delivery of music GCSE, adding another dimension to the curriculum in the form of a personal project or additional skill. It can also be delivered as an extracurricular activity
Level 3: In development
Yes. All awards can be delivered during an afterschool or lunchtime club, or within the personal and social elements of the curriculum, potentially as an enrichment activity.
We provide all materials – a syllabus, a table mapping outcomes against the national curriculum, session plans, worksheets, assessment criteria. If you’re a music specialist, they’re also easily adaptable and you can introduce your own as long as they tie in with the learning outcomes.
They can submit written materials, images, audio, video as part of a portfolio which is assessed by your internal verifier against the assessment criteria.
FAQs
MLL1 is aimed at key stage 3 and above pupils and is the first level in a suite of music leading awards which include levels 2 and 3 progressing to increased leadership responsibilities and more diverse contemporary music skills. The award can be studied and assessed in a school, college or with an independent training provider who has completed an initial quality assurance check and completed the centre approval process. The award can be delivered as a standalone certificate or as a part of a larger and more complex qualification.
A wide range of options including future employment in leadership and management roles, the creative sector, music making, music teaching, performance, technician, event management and many others.
The total award time is 30 hours, but only 15 hours of teaching contact time is required, the rest being covered by personal study, assignments and practice.
There is no external assessment. A series of worksheets can be provided to check knowledge and understanding, or teachers are at liberty to provide their own knowledge checks provided they meet the required outcomes. The final assessment will require internal verification by a tutor who has not been involved in the delivery of the award.
There is an overlap of over 50% between the learning outcomes of the MLL1 and the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. Therefore the 15 hours of teaching contact time required for the achievement of MLL1 can be embedded into the 39 hours (approximately) of key stage 3 music delivery. Alternatively MLL1 can be delivered within the personal and social element of the curriculum, potentially as an enrichment activity, or outside of the school timetable.
MLL1 can be delivered by a teacher who has some musical ability but not necessarily a formal music teaching qualification.
A classroom is suitable for the delivery and assessment of the award and the requirements for music equipment will depend on the nature of the summative assessment pupils select. However, the award can be completed with no additional resource other than a classroom, for example if singing is selected for the final assessment.
Progression to MLL2, equivalent to Key Stage 4, is available if the combination of music and leadership has been an inspiration. Alternatively successful pupils may wish to study for music GCSE or work towards a leadership award or qualification. If none of these options are appropriate for the successful pupil, improvements in self-confidence and leadership skills can reap rewards in other parts of the curriculum.
MLL1 can be particularly relevant for SEN pupils in terms of confidence inducing and MLUK will make reasonable adjustments where necessary in relation to the assessment criteria for SEN pupils.
Yes most definitely as the units are flexible to adaptation and differing levels of ability.