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Downloadable resources for music teachers
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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SubscribeTeaching a successful guitar group
Extra-curricular music VMT Archive
Throughout my musical career, one of the main areas I've found to be a constant source of learning, encouragement and inspiration is playing and performing music with a group of people. Within a...
Getting started with Cubase Elements 10: part one
Secondary education KS 3 Archive KS 4
This resource is designed to provide an introduction to Cubase Elements. Cubase software has various levels, and this is the entry-level version. It's an affordable piece of software for most schools,...
Teaching a beginners' brass group
Extra-curricular music Primary education Secondary education
Group teaching is often thought of as the poor relation to individual music tuition. And that can certainly be the case if you try to teach groups in exactly the same way as you teach individuals. If...
AQA AoS4: Orchestral music of Copland
Secondary education KS 4
Picture the following Hollywood scene: a hero has fallen, and a faded Stars and Stripes flutters in the breeze as we remember their act of sacrifice for their country. What underscore do you hear?...
GCSE music: theory tips and tricks
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
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...
AQA AoS1: The Requiem of the late-Romantic period
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource will give a brief overview of the context of the late-Romantic Requiem, followed by detailed analysis of some extracts from three key works.
Active listening
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
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...
Activities for the summer holidays
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
This resource is a collection of ideas for holiday activities for students at KS3, 4 and 5. Some of these are based on the Listings Resource that can be found in the second half of the article. This...
Working with visiting music teachers
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
The place of peripatetic music staff (or visiting music teachers, as they're now more commonly known) is a notoriously grey area for schools and heads of music. Who is responsible for them? Are they...
OCR A level AoS5: Programme music
Secondary education KS 5 Archive
Teaching programme music should be the fun bit. It's where music is at its most descriptive and vivid, with an obvious narrative that offers an ideal launch point into the exploration of so many core...
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