Skip to content

Anna Gower

"He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done, and he did it"

  • About
  • Consultancy and Workshops
  • Resources and Reviews
  • Work with Anna
  • Contact
  • Mrs Gower’s Classes

Video of Anna

The Classroom Debates

August 3, 2015August 3, 2015 ~ annagower ~ Leave a comment

Back in March I was invited to take part in a panel debate at The Music Education Expo alongside Jane Humberstone, Martin Fautley and Gary Spruce.

Watching the video of the session I was struck by how few solutions we as a panel were able to give.

Continue reading →

Primary Music-A Unique Insight

August 3, 2015August 3, 2015 ~ annagower ~ Leave a comment

Back in June I was invited by ISM to take part in a webinar to share some of the findings from the Musical Futures survey to primary teachers about music in the primary sector, the findings from which have informed the planning phase of the new Musical Futures: Just Play approach for primary teachers.

Continue reading →

Follow

  • View MusicalFutures’s profile on Facebook
  • View @tallgirlwgc’s profile on Twitter
  • View anna.gower’s profile on Instagram
  • View anna-gower-089b702a’s profile on LinkedIn
  • View UCT608vxzG2D5H6D-tSf7iOw’s profile on YouTube
Follow Anna Gower on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • Resource Review and Activities – Body Beats: An Easy and Fun Guide to the Art of Body Percussion
  • Musical Futures – the Marmite of Music Education?
  • Year 7 Can – Reflections on Transition and the Monks Walk School Community Music Project
  • Resource Review and Activities – Musication
  • Resource Review and Activities – Rob’s Kitchen Music
  • Resource Review Cool4School
  • Resource Review and Activities – Musical Futures Chair Drumming
  • Back to (home) school on Monday – a few reflections
  • “We don’t do D”
  • From the Archives – July 2014
  • From the archives: 10 things I loved about teaching music back in July 2012
  • From the archives: Do you have to be a specialist to teach music? July 2016
  • From the archives: From Good to Outstanding, April 2012
  • #MFLearn19 Holistic and Haphazard Learning Part 2
  • #MFLearn19 Haphazard and Holistic Learning Part 1
  • Why I am excited about #MFLearn19
  • Creativity and music education part 1
  • Call for EOI from music teachers in Herts for a new creative education pilot project
  • Making sense (or not) of music education
  • “First Access” and musical pathways. Have times changed and can we change with them?
  • Skills and Knowledge and the Music Curriculum
  • 3 key risks to cultural education in the UK
  • Key Words – “caught not taught”?
  • What is the role of ‘the music’ if we aim to ‘teach music musically?’
  • 3 questions every music educator should be asking themselves
  • Music for everyone, how to promote access to music for all students
  • Top tips for getting the most from practical music making in the classroom
  • Music and transition
  • Music for everyone? Absolutely.
  • Session skills at A Level: a fit or a miss?
  • I’m back!
  • It’s not about genre-it’s about voice 
  • Musical Futures and me
  • Music education in the UK-a perspective from afar
  • Professional development for teachers MATTERS
  • Confident Kitt
  • Fabulous Fiona
  • Music Music everywhere…..
  • Musical Futures: Just Play-the story so far
  • Baseline-Ours or Theirs?
  • Do you have to be a musician to teach music
  • The power of student choice – Sophie’s story
  • Can anyone help?
  • The Classroom Debates
  • Primary Music-A Unique Insight
  • Classroom Workshopping is GREAT!
  • Creative ways to use a class blog in music
  • Stress to Assess
  • Keywords
  • What happens when the teacher isn’t in the room?

Recent Comments

Resource Review and… on Back to (home) school on Monda…
annagower on Back to (home) school on Monda…
Alison Armstrong on Back to (home) school on Monda…
annagower on From the archives: Do you have…
Etain Ferdenzi on From the archives: Do you have…

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

Archives

  • May 2022
  • June 2021
  • April 2021
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • December 2019
  • September 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • December 2018
  • September 2018
  • April 2018
  • November 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Anna Gower
    • Join 26 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Anna Gower
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar