For many, teaching online may be a daunting prospect. This resource is aimed at giving you the confidence to start your online teaching journey, if you haven't done so already.
Richard Steggall Peripatetic Teaching
This resource examines some strategies for compositional groundwork, and offers tips for avoiding some of the most common pitfalls, as well as some ideas for getting students started.
Jane Werry Secondary education
This resource looks at essay-writing skills and offers tips on how to approach essay writing with your students. It also works through some ideas that will support different exam boards. It is...
James Manwaring Secondary education
This resource explores the breadth of Nat King Cole's artistry and his influence, as well as appraising the four songs OCR have selected from his album After Midnight.
Jonathan James Secondary education
Motivating students is one of the most important – and also most difficult – jobs that a teacher can have. Without sufficient motivation, students won't learn new ideas, and will struggle to make any...
Paul White Extra-curricular music
In 2020, the year marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, OCR A level students are lucky enough to be studying a work by that composer.
Maria Johnson Classical
This resource gives practical advice in maintaining discipline and focus with small-group and one-to-one teaching. It will help you prepare and set up your lessons to encourage focus, give tips on...
Richard Barnard Peripatetic Teaching
This resource provides some lesson materials for Key Stage 3 inspired by some classic rock songs of the 1960s and 1970s era. We'll explore songs and performances that will give them a sense of a time...
Simon Rushby KS 3This resource follows on from the excellent revision resources in Music Teacher magazine that ran in March, April and May 2019. Here, a range of revision strategies will be discussed that can be used...
Jane Werry KS 4
This resource explores the role that music plays in our lives, and how we use it to support ourselves and help us deal with things. It then looks at ways in which we can challenge students to think...
Simon Rushby Secondary education
The activities covered in this resource can be adapted for use across all key stages in secondary schools. They are particularly relevant for supporting GCSE and A level study and, indeed, most...
David Ashworth Secondary education
This topic is part of Area of Study 1 for AQA GCSE music and includes a ‘study piece’: the second movement of Haydn's Clock Symphony (covered in its own resource, Music Teacher, November 2017)....
Maria Johnson Secondary education