One of the deliverables of the EU ‘Teacher Education Academy for Music’ project (TEAM, 2023-2026, https://teacher-academy-music.eu) is to develop data-based European-wide ‘TEAM Learning Outcomes for Music Teacher Education’ (for generalists as well as specialists).

The 2006-2009 EU ‘Music Education Network’ project (meNET) published Learning Outcomes (LOs) for Specialist Music Teachers and, in 2013, the EAS also published a complementary set of LOs for generalists. Originally formulated in both German and English, and officially translated into 5 other languages, the LOs have proved to be valuable instruments within institutional benchmarking. It was never the intention to standardise teacher education: the LOs were intended to form a basis for ongoing discussion, in an open-ended process of development.

In this rapidly changing world, one working group in TEAM is revising and updating the existing LOs. We have the ambition of formulating future-proof LOs by including societal challenges such as sustainability and democratic education, as well as ‘emergent themes’ derived from analysing national, regional, local and institutional sets of LOs. These constitute: diversity and inclusion, practitioner research and professional development, global citizenship, interdisciplinarity, and digitisation. By formulating and disseminating the new LOs we hope to have a long-term impact on the transformation of (initial and continuous) music teacher education.

In this round table (1) we will introduce the new set of TEAM LOs and the process by which they were formulated, (2) participants will be asked to give feedback on the LOs, in the form of a world café, and (3) we will end with a plenary session in which we share feedback from the small group discussions.