Held on the 15th Mar 2025
JOIN US FOR THIS FREE AND ENERGISING EVENT
Teachers are amazing and are the keys to development for our younger generation. They fuel the passion and enthusiasm of their learners, sharing invaluable experience. Teachers nurture a love of the performing arts, shaping learners' abilities as performers, and the empathy they take forward in their own lives.
There are many challenges facing teachers, despite incredible commitment and passion. What can teachers do to support neurotypical students? And what techniques will take another student from ok to awesome? Join us for a day of inspiration and resourcing. We'll be sharing ideas on how to keep your own cup full, and where you can find support to maximise your teaching efforts.
Registration is FREE but ESSENTIAL.
Register by the due date (Sun 9 Mar), and attend on the day to go into the draw for a fantastic door prize, valued at over $500!
We'll be running two events so join us at whichever is convenient:
Event details
SOUTH: nipaluna / Hobart
Saturday 15 March
9:00am - 1:45pm
UTAS Centre for the Arts - Lecture theatre 129
37 Hunter Street, Hobart
Enter via the laneway under the pink façade.
NORTH: Panatana / Latrobe
Sunday 16 March
9:00am - 1:45pm
Latrobe Federal Bandrooms (LJ Coventry Bandrooms)
Latrobe Recreational Ground
211 Gilbert Street, Latrobe
Parking available onsite. Follow the signs to the bandrooms.
FREE Admission but registrations essential to manage capacities and catering.
Schedule for each event:
| 9:00am | Registration and performance from an AMEB award winner |
| 9:15am | Welcome |
| 9:30am | Guest speaker: Daphne Proietto OAM / discussion facilitated by Kathy Fazackerley |
| 10:30am | Morning tea and mingle |
| 11:00am | Guest speaker: Mark Bain |
| 12:00pm | Music Theory resources: Andrew Raiskums |
| 12:40pm | New resources overview: Michelle Forbes |
| 1:00pm | Lunch and networking |
| 1:45pm | All concludes |
Who is this event for? Teachers!
You don't need to be an AMEB teacher, or even focus on exams with your students. This event will include some information about what AMEB has to offer in terms of resources for teachers but ultimately, we just want to energise and support teachers for the year ahead. Oh, and non-teachers are absolutely welcome, too!
Please let us know about your dietary needs and access requirements in your registration. We'll also ask which sessions you plan to attend so that we can best cater the information to the people in the room. Hobart morning tea is proudly supported by Modern Musician.
What's it all about? Read on to find out more about the topics and our guest presenters. We'll also have goodie bags for everyone on the day and there are bound to be plenty of great chats.
Ten important points
These are Daphne's ten top hints to help bring out the best of your neurodiverse students. Spoiler alert - it'll help your atypical students, too! Daphne will share some background to her natural way of teaching, why some things work better than others, and lots of ideas you can take home and try out with your students.
We'll also hear some fantastic ideas about how to encourage student engagement and how to set them up for a love of music and the skills they need to express it.
Meet Daphne Proietto
Daphne Proietto gained a BMus(DipEd) from the University of Melbourne following which she trained in music therapy and Dalcroze Eurhythmics in London. Subsequently, she established music therapy at the Caulfield rehabilitation hospital, Melbourne. For the last 25 years in her private studio, she has taught children with special needs with an emphasis on autism. She has used her dual training in music therapy and music education to develop 'Theraplay' - a program to teach children who have special needs.
Daphne has been invited to talk on her experiences in teaching children with autism at the ISME conferences in Bologna Italy (2008) and Beijing China (2010). In 2015 her work was highlighted on Channel 9 in a 60 Minutes Program. In 2019 Daphne appeared on the ABC Compass program for their Christmas special 'Christmas Sounds Better This Year', during which her students (three with ASD and one visually impaired student) composed a new Christmas carol.
In 2015 she was awarded the Herald Sun, Pride of Australia Inspiration Medal and in 2017 she received an OAM for her work. In 2022 she was awarded the Westfield Local Hero Prize.
To check out more of Daphne's incredible work, visit her project website, Keys of Life, where she shares her methods and provides support and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Teaching toward excellence
Students come in a range of different shapes and sizes and some techniques work well with many but not with others.Mark will share with us a handy method for students to elevate their performance, taking them from average to awesome. With easy to adopt approaches and simple tweaks to mindset and methods, you'll walk away with plenty of food for thought.
Interested in further PD, perhaps with the new AMEB Teaching exams? While this content isn't taken directly from the Syllabus, it supports and aligns with its methodologies and is an approach you can take to achieving your PD goals.
Meet Mark Bain
After growing up in Adelaide, Mark Bain completed his BMus with First Class Honours at the Australian National University School of Music in Canberra. Following this, Mark moved to Germany and continued his studies as a guest student at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main.
In 2011, Mark was appointed to his current position of Tutti Trumpet with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Alongside this, he has performed with many orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Australasia.
Mark is also a passionate music educator, having held teaching positions at the Australian National University School of Music, the University for Music and the Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main, and the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music. He has also been a guest trumpet tutor for the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Young Symphonists program, and is currently the trumpet tutor at The Friends' School in Hobart.
In 2019, Mark founded his own performance coaching and public speaking business, Performance Under Pressure. This was created with the purpose of supporting and empowering musicians to take charge of their own learning, performance, and broader personal development.
Music Theory
The Theory of Music set of workbooks is now complete! It's a fantastic resource so we've brought the brains behind the books to talk all things theory.Gain valuable insights into teaching music theory, explore practical exercises to engage your students, learn effective strategies for tackling set works, and ask all your burning questions.
Meet Andrew Raiskums
In his role as Theory Specialist, Andrew Raiskums joined the AMEB Federal Office in 2009. He oversees the production of written and aural components for all AMEB Theory of Music, Musicianship, and Music Craft examinations. Additionally, Andrew curates the content development and production of Online Theory Courses and Exams for AMEB's digital learning platform, SCORE.
With over twenty years' experience as a teacher of piano and theory (primarily at Melbourne Girls Grammar School), and extensive expertise in music theory pedagogy, Andrew has a proven track record of teaching students of all levels, from beginners to those pursuing tertiary studies. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Monash University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne, where he studied piano with Donald Thornton and composition with Brenton Broadstock and Graeme Gerrard.
A well-known choral conductor, Andrew has directed a number of choirs in Melbourne, most notably Gloriana Chamber Choir, which he founded in 1994. Andrew's interest in music theory pervades all aspects of his musical life, from the preparation of performance editions for Renaissance choral music and continuo realisations, to the many transcriptions and arrangements he has made for choirs and instrumental ensembles. The series of AMEB Theory of Music integrated course and workbooks which he has authored presents a distillation of Andrew's experience as a teacher, his work preparing exams for the AMEB Federal Office, and his work as a professional musician.
Please note: We’ll be taking some photos throughout the day to record the event, and post on social media. If you’re coming along and would rather we avoid any images of you, please let us know by 5pm Friday 14 March via infotas@ameb.edu.au.
