Disability Inclusive Classrooms with Celebrating Disability
Make your Music classroom and teaching more accessible and engaging for everyone with actionable tips, resources, and ideas.
This session focuses on building practical confidence in inclusive music teaching for students. It explores how different teaching approaches can either create or remove barriers, and how small changes in delivery, environment, and expectations can support a wider range of learners. Through reflection, discussion, and practical examples, the session highlights how music can be taught in flexible ways that allow students to engage, develop, and experience success, regardless of how they learn.
The session also encourages a shift in perspective, from seeing challenges as something within the student, to recognising how teaching methods and environments can be adapted. It reinforces that inclusive teaching is not about lowering standards, but about creating multiple pathways for students to learn, express themselves, and build confidence through music.
Celebrating Disability has developed this one-page guide to help delegates and participants understand the structure of our events. Contact details are provided for any participant wanting to get in touch to request adjustments.
Accessibility
- Technology: Zoom
- Captioning: AI-generated
- Breakout rooms: Yes
- Recorded? No
If you would like to request presentation slides, questions and provocations in advance of the session, please get in touch with us by emailing info@musicmark.org.uk. Speakers may decline sharing this information on the basis of protecting their intellectual property or for other reasons and we cannot therefore guarantee availability for all events.
We are aware some people use AI bots in Zoom meetings to support with note-taking or use this technology to make events more accessible to them. We support this, though ask you to notify us by email if you intent to do this, so we can distinguish between legitimate aids and apps and those which are not.
You can also contact Celebrating Disability directly if you’d like to share any access requirements you may have to facilitate your engagement.
About the Provider
Celebrating Disability
Disability awareness training in the workplace, consulting and event speaking tailored to your organisation.
Music Mark
We are a membership organisation, Subject Association, and an Arts Council England Investment Principles Support Organisation (IPSO) advocating for excellent musical learning in and out of school.
