It is part of Victoria’s primary school curriculum, but the vast majority of teachers have neither the skills, nor experience to teach it.
It’s a subject that’s part of the curriculum, yet only one in five pre-service teachers observe a class before giving one themselves.
Teaching students in Victoria receive the least music training in the country – only about six hours over the course of an initial teaching degree, which usually takes four years to complete. Tasmanian and Western Australian students receive the most hours of music education training – 12 hours – during their teaching degree.
“We’re hoping this report will bring to light that we’re not giving our teachers as much [skills] as they might need to teach successfully and have that great feeling of what it is to really impact on their students,” she said.“It actually is beneficial for every child, and has the potential to impact on so many other learning areas that we are looking at as being a problem, like literacy and numeracy.
said she was concerned for students who were struggling with language development at lower socio-economic schools. Only 3.82 per cent of the 4670 graduate teachers at surveyed universities entering primary school each year have a specialisation in music learning and two-thirds of identified universities didn’t offer a music specialisation, according to the report.
Lorraine Montgomery, who teaches performing arts and music at Berwick Lodge Primary School, said teaching music after only six hours of training would be difficult.Montgomery said she did a state government professional development course called Musical Futures in 2017, which trained non-specialist music teachers to give them skills to confidently teach.
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