Improving Learning in a Professional Context: A Research Perspective on the New Music Teacher

Music Teacher Education is often the brunt of attacks regarding lack of preparation for teaching. This study try to illuminate the perceptions held by beginning music teachers regarding how they learn to be teachers, and to address concerns that arise from their practical experience. The report we present here includes information gathered by means of in-depth interviews given to several teachers in different Spanish music conservatoires. The findings reveal that new conservatoire teachers are concerned about knowing how to teach, and they use their teaching practice as an opportunity through which to develop an initial repertoire of teaching abilities.