TEAM – Teacher Education Academy for Music, co-funded by the European Union

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May we introduce ourselves?

We are around 25 people from 14 different institutions all over Europe working together in TEAM.

Our project TEAM has started officially on the 15. of June 2023, so we’ll soon have our first year of work behind us. In this newsletter, we will report on the latest content-related results and upcoming events. TEAM is strucruted into 9 different Workpackages, which are strongly interconnected. Nice to have you with us and a warmly welcome in our TEAM-crew.

Our project

TEAM. The Teacher Education Academy for Music, Future-Making, Mobility and Networking in Europe is a pan-European collaborative research and development network.

It aims to reshape initial and ongoing music teacher education (MTE) and school music education (ME) in Europe according to the current needs of music teacher professionalization, digitization, intercultural learning, future viability, sustainability and social coherence.

Upcoming activities 

Presentations and Outreach at the 31th EAS Conference in Dublin

We proudly present TEAM interim results in the following sessions at the EAS conference in Dublin, held from the 13. of June to the 16. of June 2024. We warmly welcome to everybody to be part, to contribute and join our sessions.

Find our programme here.

School Internships Abroad

First results of workpackage 5

The first students are travelling to our partner schools for internships lasting several weeks, during which they will gain an overview of other school systems and music teaching in them. The results will be accompanied and analysed by interview studies. 

 

Additionally, in the fall we ran a qualitative survey aiming to gain a better understanding of the diversity of existing school internship formats in Europe; the data collected by this survey helps us to develop international school internship formats that will be useful for as many institutions as possible. 

WP 5 – School Internships Abroadand Mentoring

NEW

Overview of all partners

Did you know, that our project is flanked by a large number of associated partners and the NC’s of the EAS? We are at the moment in the process of adding all the logos and pins from our associated partners. In case you can’t find the logo of your institution feel free to send it to us, so that we can add it to our homepage.

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Looking back on our Kick-off-Meeting

What you can see in the picture above is the opening ceremony of our first consortium meeting in Potsdam. 

From 16 November to 19 November, the kick-off meeting of our third-party funded project TEAM took place at the University of Potsdam. As one of 16 new Teacher Academies with the project TEAM – Teacher Education Academy of Music , the UP as the coordinator had invited 14 partners from 11 different countries. The project is lead by Prof. Dr. Isolde Malmberg of the Department for Music and Arts.  A total of 20 representatives from the partner institutions travelled to the event. In addition to a range of organisational issues, the focus was primarily on content-related work of the various work packages such as sustainability, mentoring, internships abroad, music education and music teacher education. In round-off workshops, work was carried out on various thematic groups and questions relating to needs and visions for the future.

WP 1 – Project Management and coordination
WP 2 – Building up the Network
WP 3 – Music Education and Future-Making
WP 4 – Mobility in Music Teacher Education
WP 5 – School Internships Abroadand Mentoring
WP 6 – Learning Outcomes
WP 7 – Mapping Music Teacher Education
WP 8 – Mapping Music Education
WP 9 – Impact and Dissemination

Upcoming Events

June

12-15, 2024

TEAM Outreach Meeting and Spring School within the EAS congress, Dublin, Ireland

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UP

TEAM Webinar- May 15, 2025
14:00 CET

WP5 is creating a network to facilitate school internships abroad after the conclusion of the TEAM Project: the Teacher Education Academy for Music Internship Network, or TEAM-IN.
TEAM-IN, will provide a resource-rich platform where music teachers, music teacher educators, and music education students can go to find the contacts and information they need to set up a successful school internship abroad.

TEAM-IN officially launches with an online information and exchange on Thursday, May 15, at 2 pm CET. You are cordially invited to come and hear about the internships that have taken place within the TEAM project: so far, students from Germany, Norway, Belgium and Greece have interned in schools in Luxembourg, Austria and Lithuania. There will be ample time during the session for participants to ask questions and voice concerns about the benefits and challenges of school internships abroad, as well as to brainstorm together what sort of resources would make TEAM-IN helpful to you and your institution.

Please join us! And please feel free to pass this invitation along to colleagues you think might be interested. The invitation is open to anyone who fits the description of our target audience: music teacher educators, international/Erasmus officers, music teachers in schools, and school administrators.

Please direct any questions you might have to Lauren Steinmetz at steinmetz@mdw.ac.at.
Thanks and hope to see you there!

TOPIC: Info and exchange about school internships abroad: TEAM Project and TEAM-IN Network

Time: 15 May2025 14:00 CET
https://mdw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/64751595160?pwd=AgSb9O06HzXV2fmKfH63iFJQMD6Obq.1
Meeting-ID: 647 5159 5160
Code: 457738

Verena Bons

WP 5

Verena Bons has a teaching diploma and a master’s degree in Music Education and French as well as a bachelor’s degree in oboe. After working as a secondary school teacher near Freiburg and as a lecturer at the Freiburg University of Teacher Education, she currently works as a research assistant at the Freiburg University of Music, where she teaches music education and research methods. There, she is also part of the research project „Zukunft. Land. Music.“ (Future. Country. Music.“) which investigates the transformation processes of amateur music ensembles. In her dissertation, she focuses on young amateur musicians and their everyday musical practice. She is interested in social aspects of music-making, future-oriented teacher training, innovative forms of music-making in the classroom and praxeological approaches.

Verena Bons is part of WP 5, where she supports the development of design principles for mentoring situations.

Dr. Jana Buschmann

WP 5

Dr. Jana Buschmann has studied Music and German at the University of Potsdam and is currently Research Assistant at the UP. Dr. Buschmann works for many years at the interface between university music teacher education and school internships. She leads the School Internship Semester in Music at UP and, at the moment, is also developing a prototype for a mentoring tool for Potsdam students in interships abroad. Dr. Buschmann earned her Ph.D in 2020 which concenred the issue of Continuous Education in rural areas of Brandenburg. Her current research interest is the development of online learning resources in music for students in rural areas where there is a lack of music teachers.

Dr. Buschmann will be part of WP5 and ensure knowledge transfer from UP Network for Sustainable Teacher Education.

Angeliki Triantafyllaki

COMING SOON

Prof. Dr. Stefan Gies is Secretary General of the biggest and most powerful NGO in the Music Higher Education Area: the AEC. The AEC runs huge transnational projects in the area of professional musicians training and works as NGO in close cooperation with European policy makers for the subject music.

In TEAM Prof. Gies will act as one person in the SAB and provide dissemination possibilities.

The Association Européenne des Conservatoires et Musikhochschulen (AEC) is the leading voice for Higher Music Education in Europe, a powerful advocate for its member institutions. AEC understands and supports music and arts education, together with cultural participation, as central contributors to quality in human life, and inclusive societies founded on democratic values. – AEC sees professionally focused arts education as a quest for excellence in three areas: artistic practice; learning and teaching; –research and innovation. It seeks to foster these elements and to encourage the diversity and dynamism with which they are pursued in different institutions, countries and regions. AEC works for the advancement of Higher Education in the performing arts, primarily focusing on music. It does this based on three pillars:

  1. Fostering the value of music and ME in society
  2. Enhancing quality in Higher Music Education
  3. Promoting participation, inclusiveness and diversity AEC operates inclusively, sustainably, efficiently and effectively, enabling communication and sharing of good practice.