This article provides some teaching ideas and suggestions for Area of Study 2 of the Appraising component of the new Edexcel GCSE music course, which we will be starting with our Year 10s this term.
Simon Rushby Secondary education
The first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 is the longest and potentially most challenging of all the new Edexcel GCSE set works for teaching from 2016. This resource is about how to open it...
Jonathan James Secondary education
OCR's Film Music Area of Study covers some of the parts of the exam that students tend to struggle with the most. In order to tackle this systematically, we will break it down into three distinct...
Jane Werry Secondary education
For this resource, I have revisited that publication and completely updated the recommendations I was making then - in the hope of providing some up-to-date guidance for teachers that adequately...
David Ashworth Secondary education
‘Wider listening’ is such a strange term. Wider than what? This resource will give you eight specific teaching ideas (two for each topic in Area of Study 3) that you can use to help students prepare...
John Kelleher Secondary education
The Concerto Through Time is arguably the meatiest, content-wise, of all OCR's new areas of study. It covers the development of the orchestra and changing compositional approaches from the Baroque...
Jane Werry Secondary education
How do you start that all-important conversation about a career in music? It's a vast topic. This resource offers some tried and trusted pathways into exploring the music industry, giving ideas on how...
Jonathan James Secondary education
This resource focuses on providing ideas for both repertoire and teaching for Area of Study 2 (popular music). When AQA launched the first draft of its new specification, it also issued a press...
John Kelleher Secondary education
Online resources in the coming months will include detailed looks at the individual areas of study, but in this resource I offer an oversight of the Appraising component as a whole, and hopefully some...
Simon Rushby Secondary education
Why build an opera with your KS3 class? Opera is perhaps one of the styles that students find most off–putting, and about which they probably have the most preconceived ideas – mainly that it's...
Jane Werry Secondary education
This resource is aimed at learners of around Grade 4 and above on any instrument, voice included, either working alone or together. No prior knowledge of jazz theory is required, nor is any...
Jonathan James Secondary education
In July 2016's Music Teacher resources, we looked at the new change of assessment objectives between the outgoing and the new GCSEs. In this month's resource, we'll continue to explore context and how...
John Kelleher Secondary education