Pedagogy

Individual assessment of attainment can be difficult when music-making is a group activity
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Music assessment in the lower secondary school

Opinion

The show goes on: March 2025 Editorial

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Piano pedagogy and graded exams

Give students space to explore what works well for them
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Student autonomy in instrumental lessons

‘Learner voice’: giving pupils a say in when and how they'd like to be corrected
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'Youth voice' in instrumental music teaching

Playing from memory opens up more performance opportunities because there are no music stands or folders to organise
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Teaching by ear in whole-class ensembles

Q&A

Q&A: Simon Purcell

Teaching Materials

Student retention part one: making lessons as musical as possible

Features

The purpose of music education

Music & Drama Education Expo

Meet the Expo 2025 speaker: Thomas Gregory

The author of Colourstrings, Géza Szilvay, teaching
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Géza Szilvay's Colourstrings method

Celia Waterhouse, of the British Kodály Academy, leads SMA conference delegates through exercises to introduce notation by connecting it to pitch, pulse, rhythm and movement
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Music literacy: what's the future?