ABSTRACT

What makes a great music teacher? What are those characteristics, qualities, personality traits, behaviours, attitudes, skills, knowledge, approaches that make him/her different from the average music teacher? The present study investigates the profile of the ideal music teacher through the lens of secondary school students and music teachers. 518 Cypriot students and 71 music teachers participated in the study, completing anonymous questionnaires with both closed and open-ended questions. The findings reveal that the characteristics of the ideal music teacher deemed more important for secondary school students fall mainly in the category of personality traits and student-teacher relationship, with pedagogical and subject knowledge following with much smaller percentages. On the other hand, music teachers’ highly valued the ideal music teacher’s musical skills, pedagogical knowledge and music teaching approaches/ practices. By building on the findings, the paper establishes recommendations for music teacher education and teacher effectiveness.

摘要

是什么让一位优秀的音乐老师呢？有哪些特征，素质，个性特征，行为，态度，技能，知识，方法使他/她与普通音乐老师不同？本研究通过中学生和音乐教师的角度调查理想音乐教师的形象。518名塞族学生和71名音乐老师参加了这项研究，填写了带有封闭式和开放式问题的匿名调查表。研究结果表明，对于中学生而言，更重要的理想音乐教师的特征主要属于人格特质和师生关系，其次是教学法和学科知识，所占比例较小。另一方面，音乐老师高度评价理想的音乐老师的音乐技能，教学知识和音乐教学方法/做法。通过这些发现，本文为音乐教师的教育和教师效能提出了建议。