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The aim of creating Action Learning Groups was to move away from just providing “tips for music teaching” workshops at the beginning of a PGCE course. From past experience beginning music teachers really value opportunities to share their musical expertise (the Peer Tutoring Sessions are always very popular according to their evaluations), but we also wanted to encourage them to think, share, develop and even challenge their own experience in order to begin the process of developing their initial professional practice while still at university.

Action Learning Groups provide opportunities to share expertise and “a chance to test beliefs and assumptions and learn what works” in a “safe environment to explore new ways of thinking and doing” (www.actionlearningassociates.co.uk).