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Teaching materials are an integral part of a music teacher's practice. Every month Music Teacher publishes downloadable materials for KS3, 4 and 5, offering complete units of work, GCSE and A Level set-work guidance, and practical ideas across all levels for both classroom and peripatetic teachers. All materials are written by experienced teachers and examiners and provide indispensable content for your teaching.
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SubscribeRevising for AS and A level music exams
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This is the third of three resources designed to help students revise effectively and positively for this summer's written music exams. The first (Music Teacher, March 2019) was a general resource,...
Revising for GCSE music exams
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
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...
Blues
Secondary education KS 3 Archive
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.
The story of the symphony, part 3: from Mahler to the moderns
Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
In part two to this three-part resource (Music Teacher, March 2019, with part one February 2019), we saw how Romantic composers of all creative persuasions, whether nationalist or individualist, took...
The story of the symphony, part 2: Beethoven and his legacy
Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
In the second of this three-part resource (for part one, see Music Teacher, February 2019), we will be joining the story of the symphony at its heyday in the 19th century, where the form expanded and...
Making revision effective and manageable
Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
Revision can be a word with largely negative connotations. For teachers, it can mean producing ‘packs’ and summary resources, going back over old ground with students, and finding innovative ways to...
Mentoring a trainee or newly qualified teacher
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
Mentoring a trainee music teacher or newly qualified teacher can be hard work and time-consuming. But it is also incredibly rewarding, and is guaranteed to make you reflect on your own practice. With...
Salsa
Secondary education KS 3 Archive
This resource starts with a percussion groove and a group performance of ‘Toca bonito’, and from there moves into the creation of salsa-style cover versions, which could be performed live or using...
The story of the symphony, part 1
Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This is the first in a three-part resource that uses the development of the symphony as a guide for charting the evolution of large-ensemble instrumental writing in Western classical music. As such,...
Edexcel AoS6 New directions: John Cage
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
What is music? What is composition? What is a ‘new direction’ in music? Who is John Cage? These are the topics I'll cover in this resource on John Cage's Three Dances for two prepared pianos, one of...
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