Detailed Information

Making music is the activity about which I have been most passionate throughout my life, and since January 2000, I have discovered a similar enthusiasm for teaching.  While I have taught music on a one–to–one basis at various times in my life, it has been from 2000 that I have had the most interest and commitment.  As outlined below, this is reflected in the training I have undertaken for the profession in recent years.

Teaching Experience

Overall, I have a fairly broad range of experience in teaching, as it includes in a variety of learning contexts, music, numeracy, literacy and supply teaching.  In music, in addition to teaching individuals in my home, recent professional training has led to three present concurrent posts:

• One–to–one teaching in the Jazz Piano ‘chair’ at Tonbridge School (Kent), a senior independent school

• Classroom teaching of the National Curriculum for Music at a state comprehensive secondary school (Key Stages 3 to 5) in Cheshunt (Herts), St. Mary’s High School

• Small group teaching for the London borough of Tower Hamlets’ Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES)

— Classroom and Group —

I have taught in a variety of contexts in the classroom.  As outlined above, I currently teach classroom music in a Cheshunt secondary school and for THAMES.  Before this, I worked as a music and general supply teacher in outer– and inner–London secondary schools.  Previously, for the 2003–4 academic year, I was hired by the director of Tower Hamlets College to head, design, develop and teach to its mostly Asian and Black student population a new non–accredited "enrichment" music programme.  (His reference and others can be viewed on this website.)  Concurrent with this, I tutored in Literacy and Numeracy for the WEA and Hackney Community College.  In 2001, I guest–lectured at the Slade School of Fine Art, giving a historical and comparative presentation of the music of my primary jazz mentor, the legendary tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh.

I hope this has been helpful and encouraging.  If you would like to enquire about lessons, I would welcome your call (020 8983-0572).

Yours faithfully,

Claude Alexander

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