University teaching
Teaching at
UdK Berlin
At Berlin University of the Arts, I teach future music teachers. My seminars cover lesson planning, group music-making, motivation and assessment.
Project seminars
Materials for
music lessons
Students develop their own materials and lesson ideas. The music learning games project includes a school visit: pupils try the games, and the students discuss the experience in their seminar.
Winter semester 2026/27 / announced seminar
Inclusive classroom music-making
through jazz and pop
The seminar focuses on making jazz and pop music together. We discuss how tasks and notation can be adapted for pupils with different musical backgrounds.
Previous seminar themes
2025/26
Meaningful music education
Music education within the framework of self-determination theory.
2024–2025
Games and gamification
Opportunities and limitations of game elements; developing, testing and reflecting on music learning games.
2022–2024
Self-determined music learning and teaching
Autonomy support, control and self-determination theory in music education.
2019–2021
Assessment and feedback
Assessment, feedback and autonomy in music lessons.
Approach to teaching
How I teach my seminars
01Giving reasons for teaching decisions
We read research papers and discuss them in relation to specific classroom questions. Students explain their choices of tasks and methods.
02Working with different starting points
When planning lessons, we consider the pupils’ different musical experiences and the ways they can approach a shared musical task.
03Discussing outcomes and revising work
We discuss lesson plans in the seminar and use feedback from practical trials. Students revise tasks and materials and explain their changes.
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