Music Education and Effective Teaching: Perspectives from a Critical Review

Effective teaching is an essential condition for fostering learning in instrumental and vocal music education. The role of the teacher in music lessons has to be considered in a multidimensional perspective, since it involves different personal and professional aspect in a one-to-one educational relationship. To improve teaching in the music field it is necessary to understand all these elements, the connections between them, and their impact on music teachers' training and professional development. The aim of the present paper is to consider some of these characteristics, and to discuss the relationships between them within music teacher's professional activity. Findings will provide the basis for planning future research studies, which may lead to define the main predictors of music effective teaching. Impact on music teachers' training is also considered, since it has proved to be a significant dimension of effective music teaching .