The fourth European Day of Music in Schools (EuDaMuS) will be held online on March 14, 2025. EuDaMuS is an initiative of the national coordinators for the European Association of Music in Schools (EAS) and European music teacher associations and is celebrated yearly at 15 March. Because March 15, 2025 is a Saturday, the online […]
Workshop for music teachers in Luxembourg on Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) in music education. The workshop is part of the MuTechLab series, organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences of the University of Luxembourg.
This workshop is about formative assessment in teacher training in music. This workshop especially focuses on immediate, in-action feedback delivery and how this works when supported by interaction technology. The workshop is part of the study days of the Dutch network of teacher trainers in music.
Together with Johan Sterken, Vivian Knols and others, I am involved in a national working group—set up by Dutch conservatoires and teacher training colleges through the MuziekOpleidersAkkoord. We have been exploring how teachers and partners in education can approach this theme. Since 2020, the working group has initiated various activities to develop and share knowledge […]
For the Dutch foundation Méér Muziek in de Klas (More music in the classroom), I am involved in a project promoting Arts and Culture education in schools for tertiary vocational education: Art Camp MBO. After a piloting project last school year, we are now in our first official year of this project. We have already […]
The online symposium Geef Muziek De Vijf (“High-vife For Music”), organised by NHL Stenden Hogeschool, Stichting Kunst & Cultuur and Méér Muziek in de Klas, focuses on the theme of cross-curricular teaching. Alongside musical energisers and a panel discussion featuring Suzan Lutke, Allerd van den Bremen and Johan Sterken, the afternoon offers a range of […]
The 32nd annual conference of the European Association of Music in Schools (EAS) will be held at the University of Évora (Portugal). This conference is also the 10th European Regional Conference of the International Society of Music Education (ISME). I will mentoring one of the doctoral students in the poster session on Thursday and I […]
During the Nederlandse Dansdagen festival, I am involved in the creative workshop Dance-Educational Resources, which is part of Het Huis van het Dansonderwijs (house of dance education) — an event organised by the Méér Muziek in de Klas Foundation on behalf of the DansOpleiders Akkoord (Dance educators agreement) for primary school teachers, dance teachers, dance […]
As part of the MuziekopleidersAkkoord, the foundation Méér Muziek in de Klas is working to strengthen the role of technology and digital didactics in music education across primary (PO), secondary (VO), vocational (MBO) and higher education (HBO). To support this ambition, a professional learning community (PLC) has been launched. The PLC is starting with an […]
This training session is part of my PhD research and is available to (music) teacher trainers participating in the field study I am conducting during the current academic year. During the session, participants will become familiar with the technology they will be testing in their own teacher training classes (eduFade). If you are a teacher […]