Ceol Tíre Form (TTCT)
Teastas i dTeagasc Ceolta Tíre form here. Note the deadline of March 29th 2024 for completed application form.
TTCT 2024 (Sunday 21st to Saturday 27th July)
What is the TTCT Exam?
It’s the Comhaltas’ Teacher Training Course: A residential week-long programme which takes place at Cultúrlann Na hÉireann (Dublin) yearly.
The course was created in 1980 by the great Micheal Ó hEidhin and is directed and tutored by some of the most respected traditional Irish music masters. The course includes monitored teaching practice sessions and theory classes. Within the practical teaching practice sessions, the ratio of assessors/tutors to candidate allows for very significant levels of staff support.
TTCT graduates have gone on to: Adjudicate at Fleadhanna Cheoil at County, Provincial and All- Ireland level, Tutor at Scoil Éigse and Perform on Comhaltas Tours.
It is recommended that applicants have teaching experience at the time of applying.
Amongst the subject areas included in this intensive course are:
Irish traditional music and traditional music education and pedagogy
Instrument methodology
Musical literacy &analysis, Accompaniment, Slow Airs
General principles of education, teaching and transmission
Teaching & learning styles as well as class management & preparation
Special Educational Needs and Irish Traditional Music
SCT as a teaching/learning framework and slow airs as part of the traditional repository
CCÉ Child Protection Guidelines
Planning for the CCÉ Branch Music Education Programme & Core Branch Repertoire
Teaching practice sessions which are mentored and comprise a significant part of the course
The TTCT course is ideal for:
Musicians who, having mastered their instrument would like to continue their traditional
music development.
Musicians who want to develop their music-teaching skills.
Musicians who would look like to study specific areas of traditional music, such as slow airs
and accompaniment.
An applicant who specialises in one of the following; fiddle/flute/whistle/concertina/button
accordion/piano accordion/harp/banjo/uilleann pipes.
The following applicant requirements have been specified by the TTCT:
Traditional musicians with attested skills as a teacher
Who display a competent standard of technique and style with a minimum of 100 hours of
teaching experience (from beginners to advanced levels)
Must be 20 years of age or over at the time of taking the course.
The teaching experience can include hours of mentored and supported teaching at Branch level and all other relevant formal and informal teaching contexts.
Queries in relation to eligibility are forwarded to the Director of the TTCT for consideration. Successful applicants who have received a Distinction at Grade-8 of the SCT will not be required to Audition.
Course fee is €650, which includes onsite food and board for the full course week.
APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE 2024 TTCT IS 29th MARCH
Eolas/ Contact: TTCT@Comhaltas.ie
