Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and implement individual and small group tuition programs
- Develop learning programs that incorporate sound educational principles
- Facilitate the development of learners' listening skills
- Use a range of techniques to develop skills in the craft of music composition
- Assist learners to develop confidence in applying their music knowledge to the process of composition
- Use a range of techniques to develop learners' creative potential
- Assist learners to explore electronic methods of composition
- Maintain and impart knowledge of current hardware and software applications that are useful to learners as compositional tools
- Organise access to electronic media and studios for learners to use when composing
- Encourage learners to read about and participate in broad media and technology forums/organisations
- Where possible, provide learners with mentoring opportunities to develop their skills in composing using electronic media
- Facilitate learners' professional development
- Discuss and plan with learners options for recording and presenting creative ideas through performance
- Devise and use strategies to develop critical self-reflection in learners to encourage realistic career development planning
- Assist learners to understand the function and context in which work is being created
- Devise and use opportunities for learners to consider audience needs and tastes
- Facilitate learners' understanding of business skills required as a freelance composer