As music teachers, we know that music literacy is very important. This resource will look at ways we can increase students’ vocabulary across KS3 and 4, with short, time-efficient tasks that do not...
Dice Wood Teaching Materials
This resource will take you through a range of techniques and approaches aimed at developing students’ understanding and application of textural devices. Its focus is KS3 and KS4, but the early stages...
Liz Dunbar Teaching Materials
There’s no denying the fact that there are a lot of guitarists who can’t read music. (I’d like to stress that this is focused more on electric or acoustic guitarists, rather than ones who are...
Paul White Peripatetic Teaching
This resource follows on directly from part one (Music Teacher, September 2020), which covered melody, articulation, instruments and harmony/tonality. This resource will cover dynamics, structure,...
Jane Werry Secondary education
Sibelius is a valuable tool for music teachers: not only can we use it for composition, but it also provides a useful way to bring theory to life. In this resource I will consider how you might use...
James Manwaring Secondary education
This resource translates the wisdom on active listening from its original therapeutic setting to a musical one, asking how processes in the first might be applied to the second. It then surveys...
Jonathan James Secondary education
This resource focuses on the key areas of music theory that are common across all exam boards. I'll also share some ideas and strategies that have worked in my own lessons, with the aim of providing...
James Manwaring Secondary education
With graded instrumental repertoire widely available, and three out of four GCSE exam boards linking standards to an equivalent grade, there can be a bias towards performing at KS3 as the means to...
Anna Gower Secondary education
Below are some one-off lessons and ideas for those times where you find yourself in a room without instruments, with a bank of computers, or missing half the class, any of which can stop your current...
Anna Gower Secondary education
Teaching blues at KS3 has become something of an old chestnut. However, there is a lot of value to be had from including it in your KS3 plans.
Jane Werry Secondary education
This resource is intended to provide activities and ideas for students that will help them to revise effectively for the summer GCSE music exam, and it follows a resource on general strategies for...
Simon Rushby Secondary education
In this resource, I will consider what ‘wider listening’ means, and how we can approach it in our teaching.
There are some barriers that can easily be broken down, and some misconceptions that can...
