As both a primary and secondary music teacher in Ireland for some 20 years, and now a college professor in Illinois, USA, a number of differences stand out between music education back home and here in the United States. Most striking is that the vast majority of schools in America have specialist music teachers. While that is the case at the secondary level in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the responsibility for music education at the primary level, as we know, usually belongs to the classroom teacher.
I have found primary school teachers to be some of the most committed and talented educators I have encountered. Some have an understandable fear around teaching a subject that is, for many, not where they believe their strengths lie, and yet, with helpful, ready-to-go and easy-to-access resources, I know they can indeed be successful.
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