TeachingMusic-Makers is OHMI’s teaching support programme. It is aimed at supporting lessons for individual students that use adapted instruments or equipment.
The Inclusive Access to Music-Making programme is aimed at supporting children with physical impairments as they learn in Whole Class Ensemble Teaching sessions. |
What is OHMI Music-Makers?
As new instruments have been developed, the OHMI Trust has started working with appropriate organisations to teach and promote their use to anyone otherwise excluded by their disability.
Within the UK education system, Music-Makers is a development from the initial pilot projects in Birmingham (2015), Surrey and Hampshire (2016). Music-Makers are learning across England and Wales using a format identified as best practice in initial pilot projects run in Birmingham in 2015 and Surrey and Hampshire in 2016. The findings of the pilots can be accessed in the reports below.
Within the UK education system, Music-Makers is a development from the initial pilot projects in Birmingham (2015), Surrey and Hampshire (2016). Music-Makers are learning across England and Wales using a format identified as best practice in initial pilot projects run in Birmingham in 2015 and Surrey and Hampshire in 2016. The findings of the pilots can be accessed in the reports below.
Support offered by OHMI Music-Makers programme
How the success of Music-Makers is measured
Birmingham City University’s independent reports on the Music-Makers programmes:
What is the IAMM programme?
The Inclusive Access to Music-Making programme began in response to the findings of the Independent Evaluations of the OHMI Teaching Pilots in 2017 and 2018, and those of the ‘Make Some Noise’ research conducted by the Take it away (now Inclusive Music) Consortium in 2018/19, which found Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET) is frequently cited as a barrier to music making for disabled children. In 2019 a partnership was formed between OHMI, CU and Nottingham Music Service was established to design and test an approach to improve the accessibility of WCET and overcome the lack of parity and inequality of access that currently exists for children with additional needs attending mainstream primary schools where WCET is offered. In 2020 the partnership was extended to include Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust (NMPAT) and, in 2022, Services for Education in Birmingham joined the programme.
Enabling disabled school children to play music with their peers is fundamental to our objectives. The National Plan for Music Education states that ‘all children should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument’, and WCET is the means through which many Music Education Hubs (MEH's) attempt to fulfil this policy. However, without the appropriate instruments and teaching practises, disabled children have been effectively barred from participation.
Enabling disabled school children to play music with their peers is fundamental to our objectives. The National Plan for Music Education states that ‘all children should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument’, and WCET is the means through which many Music Education Hubs (MEH's) attempt to fulfil this policy. However, without the appropriate instruments and teaching practises, disabled children have been effectively barred from participation.
Support offered by IAMM programme
- Establish demand for particular solutions for the full range of instruments required.
- Increase the number of trained staff who can assess the needs of children and advise on the most appropriate solution given their additional needs circumstances.
- Increase the take-up of adapted musical instruments and equipment. This will assist OHMI’s work with instrument makers and manufacturing methods, reducing costs per unit and increasing technical developments.
- Inform the development of the OHMI Instrument Hire Scheme in partnership with Creative United, in particular with respect to logistical factors, supply chains and business planning.
- Further improve assessment techniques, teaching methods, communication practices, especially with parents, teachers and Music Education Hubs (MEH's).
- Guide national music education policy and the practice of WCET.
- Provide opportunities to share our work with other MEH’s so that inclusive access to music-making can become the norm.
- Inform the development of a Continuing Professional Development programme.
Dissemination of this work and nationwide impact is essential if truly inclusive access to music-making at the school level is to be achieved and eventually feed through to music-making in all genres.
Donate to OHMIThere are so many disabled people who are desperate to play music with their peers. We can help to make that happen – but we can only do that with the wonderful support of our funders and donors.
As our instruments have to be hand-made by experts, they can only be produced in small numbers and are therefore expensive. Every little really does help.
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