Principles of Good Quality Vocal Leadership
We're dedicated to helping you improve and enhance the quality of singing and singing leadership in your school or setting and to help you do this, we've developed our Principles of Good Quality Vocal Leadership (PGQVL). Our Principles can inspire you reflect upon your practice and consider ways to develop it.
Over the next few months, we'll be providing Sing Up Members with a variety of different resources and support. In the meantime, please have a look at our Principles below.
Through Sing Up, we've seen that vocal leadership with primary-aged children is made up of a number of distinct elements -
Good Vocal Leaders are:
Engaging
They are flexible, responsive and share their enthusiasm to create enjoyable, relevant and well-paced sessions.
Supportive
They respect group members, value effort, celebrate achievements and encourage reflection.
Inclusive
They enable all group members to participate, by taking different abilities into account and respecting everyone’s contribution.
Supportive of Progression
They are willing to try a range of approaches that help people improve, highlighting opportunities for development.
Effective communicators
They employ appropriate verbal and non-verbal methods of communication enabling all group members to understand and learn to the best of their abilities.
Creative
They encourage experimentation and invention, using a range of different approaches and ideas.
Committed to Learning
They are open-minded and eager to learn and take responsibility for their own continuing professional development.
Musical
They are committed to developing their own musical skills; they embrace a diverse range of music; are able to challenge a group appropriately and; find ways to explore different forms of musical expression.
Community-focussed
They are committed to an ethos of collaboration, partnership and developing connections.
Caring about the voice
They understand good vocal health, and care for the voices of others as well as their own.
Download your own copy of our Principles to put up on your wall.
Why not reflect on your own practice with our advice and tips on how to recognise these Principles?
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