MUSIC TEACHING

Department of Music Education has been established in 2021-2022 academic year within the structure of Faculty of Education at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University.

The Department provides a minimum four-year undergraduate level education, consisting of 8 semesters. The program consists of lessons like individual and group music play, teaching the Turkish and Western instruments and music theory.

Graduates of the Department are entitled to work with the title “Music Teacher”, can assigned in all public and private schools which are operates under the Ministry of National Education.

Opportunities Offered to Students:

• Foreign language learning opportunity (Free),
• Opportunity to make a minor (during normal education and with an additional year scholarship),
• Opportunity to do a double major (during normal education and with an additional year scholarship),
• Opportunity to study abroad with international exchange programs (1 or 2 semesters),
• Possibility to continue postgraduate programs after graduation.

The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Expression
• Question-Answer
• Discussion
• Exercise and Practice
• Presentation
• Guided Practice
• Role Playing
• Group Study
• Simulation
• Brain Storming
• Six Hat
• Case Study
• Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
• Self study
• Problem Solving
• Project Based Learning (Including Field Work)

The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
• Oral Exam
• Homework
• Project / Design
• Portfolio
• Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis)

MUSIC TEACHING is a Bachelor's Degree Programme with 240 ECTS Credits meets the minimum level (cycle) requirements, in terms of ECTS Credits and level descriptors, of the first cycle degree qualifications of the Overarching Framework of European Qualifications Framework of HE(QF-EHEA) as well as the 6th levels of qualifications of the both the Turkish Qualifications Framework for HE (TYYÇ, NQF-HETR) and the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL) in terms of the later.

Students, upon successfully completing this study programme is awarded the qualification of BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN MUSIC TEACHING.

According to the results of Higher Education Institutions Examination (TYT) conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), students are admitted to the Department of Music Teaching with the Special Ability Exam. Foreign students are accepted as a result of the evaluation of their direct applications to the university. 

The degree is awarded to students who successfully completes a minimum of 240 ECTS from the course units of the programme with a  grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.00 out of 4.00.

Procedures to recognise prior learning (RPL), including non-formal and informal learning, is in an early stage of development in Turkey and there is no a comprehensive and enabling legislative framework at the national level in place yet. However, within the institutional autonomy respected there are some implementations at the institutional level for allocating credits towards exemption from some programme requirements on the basis of RPL. This is particularly a wide spread exercise implemented in cases that students, having a certain level of knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to fields such as foreign languages and computer use, prior to admission to the university, are subjected to an examination and if they are found successful to a certain degree required by the programme they have been admitted to, they are exempted from the relevant course units of the course programme. RPL is also practiced for students who wish to transfer their studies to the equal or an upper levels at an another institution including those from abroad in the same or similar fields. In such cases, students, having received some course units in a previous programme they had studied and having been successful, may be  exempted from the same or similar course units of the programmes they are admitted to upon the approval the adaptation committees of the programmes.

Such procedures of recognition are also used comprehensively in practice at our university. The general arrangements for the recognition ofsuch implementations are outlined in the relevant section of our Education and Examination Regulations, Rules & Regulations for Graduate Programmes and that of Regulations for Lateral Transfer of Students.

Music Teaching graduates can teach at the Ministry of National Education, private schools and private education institutions.

The students graduating from this program may apply to second cycle programs.