Dr Heather Monkhouse
2008 ALTC Teaching Fellow
University of Tasmania, Tasmania
Heather Monkhouse comes from Perth, Western Australia and in 1983 moved to New York. As a student of Leon Russianoff she obtained her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from The Juilliard School and her Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the Manhattan School of Music. For Bass Clarinet she studied with Vincent Abato and at the Aspen Festival she was a student of Joaquin Jaldepenas, and Bill Jackson. Dr Monkhouse is Senior Lecturer in Woodwind, Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania.
Fellowship due for completion: Late 2009
heather [dot] monkhouse [at] utas [dot] edu [dot] au
Using assessment effectively: learning environments that work for tertiary music performance students and staff
This Fellowship builds upon Heather's 2007 UTAS Teaching Fellowship. Having audited current music assessment procedures nationally, this project establishes a process whereby performance teaching practices can be reshaped to support an effective learning environment: where feedback aligns to the expectations of what is being assessed; where study results in valued graduate attributes.
In this environment staff and students have meaningful descriptions of the purpose of assessment/learning tasks, performance standards and assessment criteria, grade descriptors, and transparency regarding the school's formative, ongoing and eventual expectations.
Interviews and group discussions will be conducted with staff and students, related arts focus groups, and with a national discipline-specific focus group established earlier. Feedback from the professional sector will also be sought: this project features interviews from musicians working in Australian orchestras, chamber ensembles and freelance professionals. Through the Exchange a national online repository of case study narratives is to be established.
ASCED Field of Education: 1001 Performing Arts
Fellowship Discipline: Practical Music Performance Assessment, Practices / Processes
The information on this fellow's page was correct as of
11 December, 2009.
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